Speaker Profile

Deepak Malhotra is the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His teaching, research, and advisory work focuses on negotiation, deal-making, conflict resolution, and diplomacy. In 2020, Deepak was named “MBA Professor of the Year” (globally) by Poets & Quants. He has won numerous awards for his teaching & research, including the “HBS Faculty Award,” and has been selected by Harvard MBA students to give the end-of-year speech to the graduating class multiple times. He serves as Faculty Chair for the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Deepak's latest book (The Peacemaker's Code) won the "National Indie Excellence Award" for best science fiction novel and is currently in development as a TV series. His previous books include Negotiating the Impossible, Negotiation Genius, and I Moved Your Cheese. Deepak recently launched an app called RendezPoint, which helps you cross paths with the people you most want to see in real life – no matter where in the world you travel.

Outside of HBS, Deepak is a trainer, consultant, and advisor to firms & CEOs across the globe, and an advisor to governments that are trying to negotiate an end to protracted & intractable armed conflicts. In 2020, Deepak created a series of 40 short videos w/ free advice on topics related to negotiation, deal-making, sales, conflict resolution & diplomacy.