James K. Sebenius is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and now teaches advanced negotiation.

Nicholas Burns is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Robert H. Mnookin is the Samuel Williston professor of law, chair of the Program on Negotiation, and director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project at Harvard Law School.