Maurice Schweitzer is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on emotions, ethical decision making, and the negotiation process. He has published in Management, Psychology, and Economics journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and the American Economic Review.
Maurice teaches Negotiations and Advanced Negotiations in Wharton's executive education, MBA, and undergraduate programs. He has won several teaching awards including Wharton's Whitney Award for distinguished teaching and Wharton's Hauck award for excellence in teaching. Maurice Schweitzer has won best paper awards at the Academy of Management and at the International Association for Conflict Management. He has served as the program chair for both the International Association for Conflict Management and the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conferences. He served as an associate editor for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. He is currently an associate editor at Management Science.
He grew up in Los Angeles and lived in Oxford, England for a year in high school. Schweitzer graduated from University of California, Berkeley with honors in Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Operations and Information Management from University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.
Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed At Both