“Understanding Chavez”

with
Boris Munoz, Editor in Chief, Exceso Magazine and Nieman Fellow
and
Leonardo Vivas, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School of Government.

Date: February 23, 2010

Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Third Floor, N-354*, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
*Please note the location of this seminar is … read more »

Why should the people you’re supposed to lead follow you? If you believe that your charisma, your exalted office, or your vision is reason enough, you’re in trouble.

While these qualities may affect how others relate to you, the unvarnished truth is that other people will follow you when they judge it’s in their best interest to do so. Whether they’re … read more »

In challenging economic times, negotiators can find themselves in an entirely new ball game. That’s what happened to actor Brad Pitt, film director Steven Soderbergh, and their production team when Sony Pictures abruptly pulled the plug on their film project Moneyball just days before the start of shooting in late June. … read more »

When interests collide, some managers dig in their heels: You get your way or I get mine. Others go for a compromise where the plan is to give up as little as possible. Neither strategy is likely to lead to the best outcome. But businesses, nonprofits, government agencies … and even rock ‘n’ rollers … have discovered better ways, as … read more »

Research shows that women—more than men—face a “compensation negotiation dilemma,” in which they have to weigh the economic benefits of negotiating for higher pay against the social risks of being perceived negatively for having negotiated. Professor Bowles will talk about her latest research on how women can overcome this compensation negotiation dilemma. She will also talk more broadly about the … read more »

A situation in which one party has more information than the other. (Richard Luecke, Harvard Business Essentials: Negotiation [Harvard Business Press, 2003], 128) … read more »

An attempt to establish an initial position around which negotiatiors will make adjustments. (Richard Luecke, Harvard Business Essentials: Negotiation [Harvard Business Press, 2003], 49) … read more »

A type of negotiation in which the parties compete over the distribution of a fixed pool of value. Here, any gain by one party represents a loss to the other. Also known as a zero-sum negotiation or win-lose negotiation. (Richard Luecke, Harvard Business Essentials: Negotiation [Harvard Business Press, 2003], 2-3) … read more »

Herbert C. Kelman,the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University

Scheherezade Faramarzi,reporter for the Associated Press in Lebanon and Nieman Fellow

Herbert C. Kelman is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University and was (from 1993 to 2003) director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center … read more »

Professor Menkel-Meadow’s talk will describe the cultural variations in restorative and transitional justice in a variety of post-conflict, post-dictatorship societies based on her research, interviews and teaching in these countries. She will focus on process variations and the importance of acknowledging differences in history, culture and political regime in designing restorative justice programs, whether oriented to “justice” (trials and prosecutions) … read more »