Negotiation is a core skill used in a variety of personal and commercial settings and can be the key to success. Inventive Negotiation demonstrates how to transform transaction-oriented competitive or integrative bargainers into inventive negotiators that focus on long-term commercial relationships.

John L. Graham is an author and Professor Emeritus of International Business at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He has provided expert advice and training on international negotiations to executives groups at Fortune 500 companies for three decades. In 2009 he was selected as International Trade Educator of the Year by NASBITE International. A Berkeley PhD, Graham has published more than 60 articles in journals such as the Harvard Business Review (2), theNegotiation Journal, theJournal of Marketing, and Management Science. His five books with partners (see just below) have all been best sellers on their respective topics. He has also written articles for theNew York Times,Los Angeles Times,USAToday, and his research has been the subject of articles inSmithsonian and theChronicle of Higher Education and coverage on theNBC Nightly News andABC Good Morning America.

William Hernández Requejo is president and a senior consultant of Requejo Consulting, Inc., a California corporation specializing in the area of international management consulting, international business development, international negotiations and organizational development. He has worked with multinational corporations, on a wide variety of projects. William is also adjunct faculty in Advanced Negotiations, International Business Negotiations, International Business Transactions,International Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances and International Marketing at different universities across the United States and Europe. He is co-author ofGlobal Negotiation: The New Rules (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) andGlobal Business Today, Global Edition (McGraw Hill 2011). He was the founding Director of the Asturias Business School in Spain. William is a graduate of the Georgetown Law School specializing in International Law.

Lynda Lawrence is Chief Idea Officer at Ideaworks Consulting, and teaches Innovation Management at the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, USA. She has more than 30 years of experience fostering creativity in many industries, as well as trade groups, nonprofits and government agencies, and has won more than 500 awards for creativity and public service. Her work has appeared in publications as diverse asCreativity and theJournal of Philanthropy. She is an advisor to the Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and sits on several Boards of Directors.

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