• “Whether you’re buying a car, trying to get the kids into bed, or brokering a major business deal, Bargaining for Advantage teaches you to think on your feet and discover imaginative ways to come to terms with anyone.”

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    Laurie Calkhoven, Editorial Director, The Money Book Club

  • “Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success is a rare find – like one of those special mountaineering guidebooks about a challenging assent that captures the wisdom and experience of generations of climbers…”

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    Josh Lewis, Founder and Managing Principal, Salmon River Capital

  • “Ranging across history, from Charles Lindbergh to Sam Walton, the authors examine how savvy negotiators use persuasion-not confrontation-to achieve goals.”

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    U.S. News & World Report

  • “G. Richard Shell has written a book that is at once wise and practical, attentive to the scientific literature and full of gripping stories of individual lives.”

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    Barry Schwartz, Dorwin Cartwright Professor, Swarthmore College, author of The Paradox of Choice

  • The Conscience Code is “an inspiring business book” that provides a much-needed “blueprint for behaving ethically in a frequently unethical world.”


Welcome to my personal website. I am an award-winning scholar, teacher, and author at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  In my work, I help students and executives reach peak levels of personal and professional effectiveness through skilled negotiation, persuasion, influence, and the discovery of meaningful life goals.  Three beliefs permeate everything I teach and write.  First, success begins with self-awareness. Second, success progresses through excellence in practice.  Third, as I show in my latest book, The Conscience Code, success demands a lifelong commitment to the highest standards of integrity.

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