Education
- PhD Organizational Behavior, Yeshiva University, New York
- BS, Tufts University
Selected publications
- Wertheim, Edward and Paulette McCarty, “Workplace Conflict and the New Employee: Learning to Deal with the Pushy, the Grumpy, the Entitled, and the Gossips”, Business Education and Innovation, 18.1 (2026).
- Wertheim, Edward and Paulette McCarty, “Remote vs. In Class Teaching of Negotiations,” Business Education and Innovation, 14.1 (2022.V. 14, No 1.
- Wertheim, Edward and Paulette McCarty, “Peer Coaching and Peer Feedback: Two Models for Enhancing Student Development”, Business Education and Innovation 12.1 (2020).
- Wertheim, Edward, Leonard Glick, and Barbara Zepp Larson. “Teaching the Basics of Negotiation in One Class.” Management Teaching Review 4.2 (2019): 95-118.
- “Modes of Conflict Resolution”, Introduction to Conflict Resolution: Discourses and Dynamics, Cobb, Federman, Castel (eds.), Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018.
Selected presentations
- Wertheim, Edward (2016) “An Interactive Approach to Teaching the Basics of Negotiation in One Class”, Eastern Academy of Management, New Haven, May 2016
- Wertheim, Edward (2016) “Helping students identify and respond to hardball tactics in negotiation: a series of classroom activities”, ABSEL, New Orleans, April 2016
- Wertheim, Edward, National Business and Economic Research, “Tragedy of the Common Student What Should We Teach about Lying and Deceit in Negotiation”, Costa Rica. (March 8, 2013).
- Wertheim, Edward, NACRA, “Case: Hardball Negotiation”, NACRA, Boston. (October 25, 2012).
- Wertheim, Edward, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard, “Underlying Emotions in Negotiations”, Conflict Management, International, Cambridge, MA. (June 2012).
- Wertheim, Edward, Western Academy of Managemetn, “Methods for Teaching about the Use and Detection of Lying and Deceit in Negotiations and Conflict Resolution”, Western Academy of Management, Honolulu, HI. (January 8, 2012).
- Wertheim, Edward, Association of Business Simulations and Experiential Learning, “Tragedy of the Commons: A Business Simulation”, Pensacola, FL. (March 25, 2011).
Research & teaching interests
Wertheim teaches organizational behavior, negotiation, and mediation. He is a professional mediator.
Industry & academic experience
Wertheim served as an assistant professor at Boston University, a research associate at City College of New York, and a systems analyst at the Westinghouse Learning Corporation before joining the College of Business Administration faculty in 1977. He has taught widely in Europe and Asia.
Services to the profession
Professor Wertheim serves as reviewer and Associate Editor of a number of journals. He is on the Board of the Boston Chamber Music Society and its Finance Committee and serves on the Boards/Overseers of The Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music, All Newton Music School, and Boston Baroque. He is a Baritone with the Highland Glee Club of Newton and rows Sweeps at Community Rowing and plays squash at the Newton Squash and Tennis Club. He has rowed in the Head of the Charles Regatta for the past three years as part of the Octogenarian Boat (all eighty and over). He volunteers as a math tutor in the Boston Schools and serves as a court mediator at various courts in Massachusetts.
Awards & recognition
- Northeastern University Teaching Excellence Award, Northeastern University. (2000).
