Michael A. Wheeler, Co-Director of the Dispute Resolution Program, Editor of Negotiation Journal, and member of the Program on Negotiation Steering Committee since 1984, has been appointed the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. He joined the School’s faculty in 1993.

Professor Wheeler currently serves as faculty chair of the … Read More 

The PON Clearinghouse is pleased to announce the launch of its online Syllabus Collection. The syllabi — all contributed free of charge by their authors — represent a range of negotiation-, mediation-, and ADR-related courses and workshops.

The primary purpose of the Syllabus Collection is to encourage the sharing of ideas around negotiation curriculum design. “To … Read More 

Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant have won a Best Book Prize from the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution for Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed The World’s Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts (Jossey-Bass, 2001).

Breakthrough International Negotiation, which examines diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Korea, and Bosnia, was the first title to … Read More 

Ury’s New Book Offers New Perspective on Violence.

Is war on earth inevitable? Is violence a universal and invincible fact of human nature? As our nation grapples with the reality of terrorism and military retaliation, these questions take on new relevance and urgency. William L. Ury, world-renowned bestselling author and top-level negotiator, offers surprising answers–and a … Read More 

First Title Published in New Book Series

Playing for high stakes — in politics, business or everyday life — demands “breakthrough” negotiation, according to Michael Watkins, professor at the Harvard Business School, and Susan Rosegrant of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Their new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed The World’s … Read More 

Dr. Eileen F. Babbitt, assistant professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a PON faculty affiliate, will be one of four facilitators leading a Civil Society Conference for Peace and Reconstruction in Afghanistan from 29 November to 2 December in Bonn, Germany. The objective of the meeting is to … Read More 

On October 9th at Harvard Law School, Dr.William Ury, Director of PON’s Global Negotiation Project, and five past PON Graduate Research Fellows presented a symposium on The Third Side, an idea proposed by Dr. Ury in his book of that name (Penguin, 2000). The Third Side is a systematic and self-organizing dispute resolution mechanism for … Read More 

The Program on Negotiation’s Steering Committee has announced the appointment of Susan Hackley as PON’s new Managing Director. She assumed the post October 1, 2001. According to Steering Committee Chair Robert Mnookin, “Susan brings energy and expertise to the position of managing director, and has the additional benefit of already being familiar with PON’s projects … Read More 

For more than five years, the Public Conversations Project in collaboration with Susan Podziba, a public policy mediator and PON seminar instructor, has been facilitating on ongoing confidential dialogue among a group of pro-life and pro-choice leaders in Boston. On January 28, 2001, the Boston Sunday Globe published “Talking to the Enemy” a lengthy article … Read More 

The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas that Determine Bargaining Success, by Deborah Kolb and Judith Williams, was given the Best Book Award by the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM). IACM is an international association of scholars and practitioners who teach and do research on negotiation and conflict management. The award … Read More