Senior Advisor Michael Wheeler is Professor of Management at the Harvard Business School where he currently teaches Negotiating Complex Deals and Disputes and a variety of executive courses. He also serves as faculty chair of the Required Curriculum of the MBA program. In recent years he has headed the required first year course in Negotiation and has also taught Leadership, Values, and Decision Making. At Lax Sebenius, Professor Wheeler participates in a variety of training and capability-building engagements in the pharmaceutical, aerospace and oil and gas industries.

Wheeler is the author or co-author of seven books, including the On Teaching Negotiation, as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals and the public press. His text Environmental Dispute Resolution (with Lawrence Bacow) won the Center for Public Resources' annual award as the best book on negotiation. His research focuses on negotiation and dispute resolution, notably in the context of real estate development, facility siting, and environmental policy. He is the co-editor of the Negotiation Journal and has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School since 1984.

Wheeler taught at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1981 to 1994, where he was Director of Research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. Previously he was Director of Education and Research at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Professor of Law at New England Law School. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado and the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He has appeared extensively on public television in Boston and elsewhere.

He holds degrees from Amherst College, Boston University, and Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1969. He has been a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, and has served as a mediator or arbitrator in a variety of business and regulatory disputes. He has taught negotiation to corporate clients, trade organizations, and government agencies in the United States and abroad.