The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School extends its best wishes to Dr. Sara Cobb, soon to become Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Cobb has served as Executive Director of PON for two years, during which she has developed a … Read More 

Five advanced students have been named PON Graduate Fellows for the academic year 2001-2002. They will join the Program and participate in its activities while writing their doctoral dissertations during this period. Two of the new Fellows, Michèle Ferenz and Gregg Macey, are students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Noam … Read More 

Charlene Barshefsky, US Trade Representative in the second Clinton administration, will receive this year’s Great Negotiator Award next month. The award is presented annually by the Program on Negotiation to an individual whose lifetime achievements advance negotiation and dispute resolution. Professor Frank Sander of the PON Steering Committee said on behalf PON that “We are … Read More 

A new Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution has been established at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, one of PON’s consortium universities. The Center (CHRCR) is directed by Fletcher Professors Eileen F. Babbitt, a PON Associate and Hurst Hannum, a member of PON’s Faculty Seminar. Executive Director of the Center … Read More 

Melissa Manwaring has been appointed the Director of Curriculum Development. She assumes her duties at a time of transition for the Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse. Its distribution function has been outsourced to a commercial firm specializing in the distribution of educational materials. Its role at PON is being shifted in a more pro-active direction, toward … Read More 

PON Steering Committee Member and former Executive Director Deborah M. Kolb has published a lively and incisive new book on the impact of gender in the workplace (and elsewhere) called The Shadow Negotiation: How Women can Master the Hidden Agendas that Determine Bargaining Success. Published by Simon and Schuster, the volume is co-authored by organizational … Read More