John Richardson | Consultant
John is a Senior Consultant for Triad Consulting, a lawyer, and a PhD candidate in Organizational Studies at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management.
Prior to returning to graduate study, John taught Negotiation and Multi-Party Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and served as an Associate at the Harvard Negotiation Project. While there, he wrote Getting It Done with Roger Fisher, the author of the international bestseller, Getting to Yes. Most recently, John co-authored Negotiation Analysis with Harvard Business School guru Howard Raiffa and David Metcalfe. Negotiation Analysis synthesizes game theory, quantitative decision analysis, and negotiation theory. It was published by Harvard University Press in January 2003 and has quickly become a central text at business schools around the country.
John’s corporate consulting clients include Deloitte and Touche, CSC Consulting, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston, Ropes & Gray, Monsanto, Sankyo Pharma, BankAmerica, Compaq, AT&T, and Ameritech. In 1995, John helped found a regional consulting and training practice in the Australasia region, based in Melbourne, Australia, working with clients like BHP and Ericsson.
In the public sector, John has worked with the Virginia Military Institute, The Citadel, the Department of Justice National Advocacy Center, and the Archdiocese of Medellin, Columbia.
For reasons that were clear to him at the time, he left teaching to get a PhD, and expects to graduate in 2007.
John graduated from Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School. He practiced securities law in New York before returning to negotiation research and teaching at the Harvard Negotiation Project. John tries to play bluegrass, and his wife wishes he wouldn’t.