Douglas Stone
BEST SELLING AUTHOR/FOUNDER OF TRIAD CONSULTING
I am a Founder of Triad Consulting Group and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Through Triad, I consult to a wide range of organizations, including Fidelity, Honda, HP, Merck, Shell, Time Warner, the Nature Conservancy, and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. I have also had the opportunity to teach and mediate around the world. I have worked with mediators and journalists in South Africa, Greek and Turkish political and community leaders in Cyprus, doctors and executives at the World Health Organization, and diplomats at the former Organization of African Unity in Ethiopia. I have appeared on many TV and radio shows, including Oprah and NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, and was a key-note speaker at the World Negotiation Forum in Brazil.In addition to teaching and consulting, I have spent 22 years with the Harvard Negotiation Project, where I worked with Roger Fisher and other colleagues on advanced negotiation applications and the development of negotiation theory. I learned an enormous amount from Roger, perhaps most importantly, how to cultivate optimism in the face of seemingly-intractable conflicts. I graduated from Brown in 1980, and Harvard Law School in 1984. Prior to returning to Harvard, I practiced transactional and regulatory banking law at firms in Boston and New York. In my spare time I play guitar with my band, Monkey Down. It’s not so much a band as it is a few guys pretending to be a band.
The Inside Story on Douglas Stone
AS TOLD BY SHEILA HEEN
As any of the people who know him will tell you: an incredibly thoughtful, compassionate, funny and creative person. Here are some things you may not know about Doug:
He is the only member of the Harvard Law School faculty ever recruited to submit writing samples to write for Beavis and Butthead before it debuted on MTV. He declined.
Although he is now among the most popular teachers at Harvard Law School, Doug went through all three years at HLS as a student without ever speaking in class. He was too shy.
Doug can play a concert-worthy piano rendition of “Year of the Cat” by Al Stewart. If he plays it at a party, he has to immediately leave before he is asked to play anything else, because it is literally the only song he can play.
Besides Doug, bandmembers of “Monkey Down” include screenwriter Danny Rubin (Groundhog Day) and writer Alfie Kohn (Punished by Rewards, among others).