Jared R. Curhan is the Ford International Career Development Associate Professor of Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he specializes in the psychology of negotiation and conflict resolution. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Professor Curhan has pioneered a social psychological approach to the study of "subjective value" in negotiation (i.e., feelings, perceptions, and judgments concerning instrumental outcomes, the process, the self, and the relationship). His current research uses the Subjective Value Inventory (SVI) to examine precursors, processes, and long-term effects of subjective value in negotiation. Professor Curhan is also deeply committed to education at all levels; he has received Stanford University’s Lieberman Fellowship for excellence in teaching and university service, as well as MIT’s institute-wide teaching award presented annually by the graduate student council.

Professor Curhan is Founder and President of the Program for Young Negotiators, Inc., an organization dedicated to the promotion of negotiation training in primary and secondary schools. His book, Young Negotiators (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), is acclaimed in the fields of negotiation and education and has been translated into Spanish, Hebrew, and Arabic. The book has been used to train more than 35,000 children across the United States and abroad to achieve their goals without the use of violence.