DRRC Celebrates 40 Years
EVENT AGENDA
8:15 – 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome Remarks
Cynthia Wang, Nour Kteily, and Brayden King
9:15 – 10:15 The Story of the DRRC: Past, Present, and Future
Recorded Commentary by Jeanne Brett and Maggie Neale
Max Bazerman: The Origin of the Postdoc Program
Cynthia Wang: What Has Endured and What Has Evolved
Reflections and Memory Sharing in Small Groups, Followed by a Full-Group Discussion
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – Noon Research Presentations
Maximilian Primbs:Situational Models of Bias: How Environments Shape People
Geoffrey Leonardelli: Beyond Categorizing Groups: Intergroup Relations as Categories—Making Sense of Transgender Relations
Garriy Shteynberg: Psychology of Collective Mind
Noon – 12:15 Group Photo
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 Research Presentations
Ashleigh Rosette:Intellectual Throughlines: Linking Early Research to Current Inquiry
Adam Galinsky: Flexible Ambition: How to Make Aggressive First Offers Without Backlash
2:15 – 3:15 Scholarly Exchange: How is AI reshaping research & teaching?
Roundtable discussions on AI’s impact on research and teaching, followed by a synthesis discussion.
Roundtable leaders include Garrett Brady, Tracy Dumas, Laura Kray, Rick Larrick, Jeff Loewenstein, and Deepak Malhotra
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:50 Teaching Insights
Louisa Egan Brad: Negotiating Legacy: Radical Vision vs. Pragmatism at the Barnes Foundation
Jenn Whitson: Joey Bagdona: When Agents Run Amok
Deepak Malhotra Kilmer: Building an All-Purpose AI Negotiation Adviser
Speaker Panel Discussion and Q&A moderated by Cynthia Wang
4:50 – 5:00 Closing Reflections
Cynthia Wang
5:00 – 7:00 Reception & Gallery Exploration
Toast to Jeanne Brett, 2026 International Association for Conflict Management, Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award Winner
What does the DRRC mean to you?
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1980–81 Stephen Goldberg teaches the first negotiation course at Northwestern School of Law, and Jeanne Brett teaches the first negotiation course at Kellogg School of Management
1986 DRRC is founded with funding from the Hewlett Foundation secured by Stephen Goldberg and Max Bazerman with Jeanne Brett as director; early executive committee leadership includes Margaret Neale, Roger Myerson, and Mike Roloff
1988 DRRC hosts its first two postdoctoral fellows: Robin Pinkley and Larry Heuer
1989 DRRC receives gift from Allstate Foundation for research
1989 With the National Institute of Dispute Resolution, DRRC co-hosts the first conference devoted to dispute systems design
1995 Leigh Thompson establishes a laboratory for behavioral research on decision making and negotiation
1995 DRRC and the Kellogg Environmental Research Center host “Psychological Perspectives to Environmental and Ethical Issues in Management,” coordinated by Max Bazerman, David Messick, Ann Tenbrunsel, and Kimberly Wade-Benzoni and funded by NSF; the edited volume Environment, Ethics, and Behavior is published in 1997
1996 DRRC starts selling teaching materials: 16 exercises on a set of seven CD-ROMs
2001 DRRC hosts “Culture and Negotiation” conference; The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture, co-edited by Michele Gelfand and Jeanne Brett, is published in 2004
2002 KIS creates Group Assigner software for DRRC, enabling faculty to quickly assign students to negotiation groups
2002 DRRC hosts its first open teaching workshop with the Program on Negotiation and Mediation at Northwestern University School of Law
2004 DRRC partners with the Kellogg Team and Group Center (KTAG) to add team building and group decision making to its collection of teaching materials
2005 DRRC produces a Chinese-language edition of its teaching materials, joining translations in French, Portuguese, and Russian
2006 DRRC debuts a certificate program in Negotiation Teaching
2008 DRRC hosts the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) conference in Chicago
2009 DRRC begins to sponsor awards given annually by the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management
2011 DRRC initiates web-based distribution of teaching materials: 984 users create accounts
2012 DRRC hosts “The Negotiation Handbook Conference,” leading to the publication of The Handbook of Research on Negotiation, edited by Mara Olekalns and Wendi L. Adair, in 2023
2013 DRRC creates a research residency program for young scholars
2014 DRRC offers student direct payment method on its e-commerce site, allowing instructors to create course packs of DRRC materials
2018 Cynthia Wang joins the DRRC as executive director
2019 DRRC hosts the Intergroup Conflict and Collaboration conference, organized by Nour Kteily
2019–20 DRRC launches its first online simulations in partnership with SimCase
2021 Nour Kteily joins the DRRC as academic director
2022 DRRC and the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) host the Political Sectarianism Conference, organized by Eli Finkel and Jamie Druckman; invited attendees published a theoretical piece, “Political Sectarianism in America,” in Science in 2020 after the pandemic delayed the event
2023 DRRC creates the Breakthrough Award to support doctoral students attending IACM
2024 DRRC organizes a training workshop for instructors nationwide; the “Teaching Negotiations the Kellogg Way” will be offered annually
2025 DRRC inaugurates a new e-commerce site, TeachwithKellogg.com, and unites with Kellogg Case Publishing to expand distribution of Kellogg’s teaching material offerings
2026 DRRC shifts its postdoctoral fellowship from a two-year to a three-year residency and will welcome its 43rd postdoctoral fellow
2026 DRRC partners with NoYes AI on a large-scale effort to convert its negotiation exercises into AI simulations
2026 DRRC sells its catalog of 200+ negotiation exercises to 200,000 users in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia
"The DRRC changed my life.
... I chose the DRRC because it felt like such a warm and collaborative environment. And I was right. Joining the DRRC was the second-best decision of my life…after proposing to my wife!"
"The DRRC was more than a research center—it was an intellectual home. Jeanne Brett and Max Bazerman built a place where ideas were challenged, collaborations flourished, and young scholars were encouraged to think boldly. Their vision transformed the MBA classroom into a living laboratory for negotiation research and launched countless research collaborations that continue to shape the field today."
