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, Kolb 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. Dr. Kolb is a principal in The Shadow Negotiation, LLC., an e-learning company that provides negotiation training specially designed for women. Kolb (with Judith Williams) is the author of Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas of Bargaining (Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2003). Under its original title, The Shadow Negotiation, the book was named by Harvard Business Review as one of the ten best business books of 2000, and it received the best-book award from the International Association of Conflict Management at its meetings in Paris in 2001. Kolb is currently working on a new book, Taking the Lead: Negotiating the Challenges of Leadership Success. Other books that Kolb has authored or edited include The Mediators; Hidden Conflict in Organizations: Uncovering Behind-the-Scenes Disputes; Making Talk Work: Profiles of Mediators; and Negotiation Eclectics: Essays in Memory of Jeffrey Z. Rubin. Kolb is on the editorial boards of the Negotiation Journal and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.