Max H. Bazerman

Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Max Bazerman
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Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His books on ethics include Corrupted Justice (in press); Inside an Academic Scandal (2025); Complicit (2022); Better, Not Perfect (2020); and Blind Spots (2011, with Ann Tenbrunsel). 

Max received an honorary doctorate from the University of London, the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program, the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management, the Academy of Management Career Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. In addition, Max was named as Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics and as one of Daily Kos' Heroes for going public about how the Bush Administration corrupted the RICO Tobacco trial.

Max’s former doctoral students have accepted positions at leading business schools throughout the United States, including the Kellogg School at Northwestern, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Fuqua School at Duke, the Johnson School at Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Columbia, and the Harvard Business School.