JEANNE M. BRETT is the DeWitt W. Buchanan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, where she is also the director and a founding member of the Dispute Resolution Research Center. She divides her time between research, teaching and consulting on negotiation strategies in a global environment. Brett is coauthor of Getting Disputes Resolved: Designing Systems to Cut the Costs of Conflict (Jossey-Bass, 1988).