David Lax
David Lax is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project and a former professor at Harvard Business School.[1]
Education
Lax has a Ph.D. from Harvard in statistics, studied statistics at Stanford University and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton.
Contributions
David Lax published an early contribution to robust statistics, about a robust estimator of scale, which was published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.[2]
With James K. Sebenius, he is the author of the books Manager as Negotiator: Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain (The Free Press, 1986) and 3-d Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals (Harvard Business School Press, 2006).[3]
David Lax has contributed to the public discourse on several prominent negotiations, such as the 1994-95 NHL lockout. His suggestion was that revenue should flow into a separate escrow account touched by neither players nor owners until the dispute was resolved. This suggestion was not adopted [4]
References
- ↑ "David Lax". pon.harvard.edu. Retrieved Nov 15, 2018.
- ↑ Lax, David A. (September 1985). "Robust estimators of scale: Finite-sample performance in long-tailed symmetric distributions". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 80 (391): 736–741. doi:10.1080/01621459.1985.10478177.
- ↑ Marshall, Jeffrey (January–February 2007), "Review of 3-d Negotiation", Financial Executive, 23 (1): 13
- ↑ Howard Raiffa, Mathematician Who Studied Decision Making, Dies at 92
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