Executive Director

The National Center for Dispute Settlement

4000 Town Center
Suite 485
Southfield, MI 48075

TEL: (248) 356-0870
FAX: (248) 356-4774
Email: hartfielde@aol.com

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese, Spanish

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  executive and top management teams; international business relations; joint ventures; labor and labor relations; management techniques; negotiation; personnel training; union-management relations
• EDUCATION
  cultural diversity training; organizational development
• LAW
  dispute resolution; mediation and arbitration
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  foreign policy and international relations; public diplomacy; US-Pacific Rim negotiations
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  cultural and social change; interpersonal relations; organizational decision-making

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Seminar Leader, University of Michigan Executive Education Seminar, 1988-present; Project Advisor, Michigan Labor Management Partnership Project, 1987-90; Commissioner, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, 1979-87; Mediator, Office of Dispute Settlement, 1975-79.

IN JAPAN: 1970-73 - fellowship.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Conducting Successful Negotiations with Japanese Firms," East Asian Executive Reports (April, 1991); "The Divergent Economic Development of China and Japan," Confucianism and Economic Development: An Oriental Alternative? (ed. Tai) (1989); "Qualifications for Mediators of Environmental and Public Policy Disputes," Seton Hall Law Journal (Winter, 1988).