An impartial third party with the coercive power to impose terms on the disputants. An arbitrator is not biased in favor of either party and subordinates personal preferences to some set of rules or values. Nor does a pure arbitrator have a sufficient stake in the outcome to bargain with the disputants. (Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant, Breakthrough International Negotiations [Jossey-Bass, 2001], 94)
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The Dispute Resolution Program at the Program on Negotiation (PON) hosted a workshop on “Buddhism & Dialogue” on November 7, at Harvard Law School. The workshop was organized by Ran Kuttner, visiting scholar at PON, and Michael Wheeler LL.M. ’74, MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at the
Christopher Honeyman – Managing Partner, Convenor Conflict Management
Chris Honeyman is co-editor (with Andrea Kupfer Schneider, HLS ‘92) of a new book, The Negotiator’s Fieldbook (ABA 2006.) With eighty contributing authors, it is the most comprehensive reference the field. Literally dozens of people who have been closely associated with the Program on Negotiation contributed to this
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Kenneth R. Feinberg, Esq.
Mr. Feinberg will discuss his experience administering the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and how well the Fund functioned as a statutory alternative to the traditional civil justice system. Mr. Feinberg will emphasize why Congress enacted such a statute, delegating to
Speaker:
Professor Emeritus Frank Sander
Please join Professor Emeritus Frank Sander for the first Dispute Resolution Forum (DRF) of the 2006 – 2007 academic year.
Why are some jurisdictions so receptive to mediation and others so indifferent or even hostile to it? Can we develop some kind of metric (the MRI or Mediation Receptivity Index) to measure
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld – Senior Research Scientist, Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, MIT and Co-director, Program on Negotiation in the Workplace
Professor Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld moderated a discussion on labor negotiations around the world.
Panelists:
Ms Anna Booth (Australia), Director of the private workplace change, training & dispute resolution agency CoSolve; Director of Members Equity (the union
Redoing the Deal: Regenerating an agreement is different from hammering it out from scratch. Your tactics should change accordingly
Borrowing from Baseball: The Surprising Benefits of Final-Offer Arbitration. It’s a satisfying paradox; agreeing to final-offer arbitration boosts the likelihood of a negotiated resolution – and actually decreases the chances that you’ll need to hire an
Presenter:
Linda Babcock
Sara Laschever
Professor Babcock and Ms. Laschever will discuss issues raised in their book Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. The book examines a series of gender psychology and economic studies that illustrate the barriers holding women back from negotiation in the workplace and offers solutions on how women can ask for what
What don’t we know about conflict and its resolution?
What do we need to know?
How would we find out?
Some of the world’s best-known conflict resolution scholars and practitioners offer some answers to these pivotal questions in the new special issue of Negotiation Journal, the quarterly journal published by the Program on Negotiation in collaboration with Kluwer
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
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
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