George Siedel

Siedel received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the College of Wooster and completed graduate studies in law at the University of Michigan and Cambridge University.

Following graduation from Cambridge University, Siedel worked as an attorney in a professional corporation. He has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and in Florida, Michigan and Ohio.

In 1974 Siedel joined the faculty of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he has served as Associate Dean. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Harvard University, a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley, and a Parsons Fellow at the University of Sydney. He has been elected a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University's Wolfson College and a Life Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation. As a Fulbright Scholar, he held a Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Siedel has served on several boards of directors, including The Washington Campus, the William Davidson Institute, AIESEC, and Medic-Alert.

Siedel has an international reputation for his research and teaching on negotiation. He has taught negotiation around the world, including Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, India, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Luxembourg, and Brazil, and he currently teaches annually in Croatia, and Italy.   

In 2014, he developed a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on "Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills." The course ranked second on a list of the ten most popular business courses, and over 500,000 learners have joined the course. This course was followed in 2016 with a MOOC on "The Three Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law & Ethics."

Siedel is well known for his pragmatic approach on negotiation strategy. This approach is summarized in his book on Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills and in numerous media interviews.  He also lectures frequently at professional conferences and at universities in the US and abroad, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford and, most recently, Oxford.

In addition to his expertise on negotiation, Siedel is well known for his work in the fields of proactive law and alternative dispute resolution.  In recognition of this work, he has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Salzburg Center for International Legal Studies. He also served as Special Editor of the Alternative Dispute Resolution issue of the American Business Law Journal.  

Siedel has written many articles in leading journals and books on negotiation, law and management and on proactive contracting. His recent books include the following:

• The Three Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law & Ethics (2016). Van Rye Publishing ISBN 978-0997056600
• Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills (2014)], translated into Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Van Rye Publishing, ISBN 978-0990367192
• Employers and the Law (with John Siedel, 2014). Van Rye Publishing, ISBN 978-0990367130
• A Short Guide to Contract Risk (with Helena Haapio, 2013). Routledge; New edition ISBN 978-1409448860
• Proactive Law for Managers (with Helena Haapio, 2011). Routledge; New edition ISBN 978-1409401001
• Using the Law for Competitive Advantage (2002). Jossey-Bass; 1 edition ISBN 978-0787956233

• Consortium of Universities for International Studies, Professor of the Year, 2014
• Vic Bernard Teaching Leadership Award, University of Michigan, 2011
• Virginia Maurer Award for Best Ethics Paper, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2009
• Teaching Excellence Award, Master of Accounting Program, University of Michigan, 2007
• C. Robert Wartell Award for Distinguished Service, State Bar of Michigan, 2005
• Ralph Bunche Best Paper Award, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2002
• CIBER/ALSB International Case Writing Award, 2000
• AACSB/Keizai Koho Center Fellow, 1996
• Hoeber Award (Best Article), Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 1993
• Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan, 1981