arbitration

An adjudicative process by which a private third-party neutral renders a binding determination of an issue in dispute. (Michael L. Moffitt and Robert C. Bordone, eds., Handbook of Dispute Resolution [Program on Negotiation/Jossey-Bass, 2005], 318-19)

The following items are tagged arbitration.

Faculty Exchange Ideas at PON Conference On Teaching Multiparty Negotiation

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“Teaching Multiparty Negotiation” was the focus for an inventive, purposefully small group of educators who gathered for a two-day Program on Negotiation-sponsored conference at Harvard University. The event, held May 30-31, 2003, was led by Professors Robert H. Mnookin of Harvard Law School and Lawrence E. Susskind of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who have

Paradoxes of Dispute Resolution

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Presenter:
David A. Hoffman

The practice of mediation and other forms of dispute resolution often call on the practitioner to balance values and objectives that are inherently contradictory. For example, mediators believe that party autonomy and self-determination are fundamental to the process, while some parties seek out mediators because they expect the mediator to apply a certain

Wheeler Appointed MBA Class Of 1952 Professor Of Management Practice At HBS

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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

Employment ADR in the International Setting: Does Our Experience Have Any Transferability?

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Presenter:
Arnold M. Zack

The United States has the reputation for effective use of mediation and arbitration of disputes in unionized workplaces. Anyone who has ever been inconvenienced abroad by frequent strikes of transit or government workers must wonder why other countries don’t adopt a system like ours, free of wildcat strikes. Arnold Zack, whose background and

Breakthrough International Negotiation

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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