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Deborah M. Kolb is professor of management at Simmons School of Management and at the Center for Gender in Organizations there. From 1991 through 1994, she was executive director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is currently a senior fellow at the program, where she codirects the Negotiations in the Workplace Project.

Kolb is author of The Mediators (MIT Press, 1983), an in-depth study of labor mediation, and coeditor of Hidden Conflict in Organizations: Uncovering Behind-the-Scenes Disputes (Sage, 1992), a collection of field studies about how conflicts are handled in a variety of business and nonprofit organizations. She has published a study of the practice of successful mediators, Making Talk Work: Profiles of Mediators (Jossey-Bass, 1994). She is also editor of Negotiation Eclectics: Essays in Memory of Jeffrey Z. Rubin (Program on Negotiation, 1999). She has authored more than seventy-five articles on the subjects of negotiation, conflict in organizations, and mediation, and is on the editorial boards of the Negotiation Journal and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Kolb received her Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management, where her dissertation won the Zannetos Prize for outstanding doctoral scholarship. She has a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado.

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