brainstorming

A free-flowing session in which ideas for solutions are generated by both parties. Ideas should not be evaluated during the brainstorming session, and parties should not take ownership of ideas. The goal of a brainstorming session is to liberate those at the table to suggest ideas. (Robert H. Mnookin, Scott R. Peppet and Andrew S. Tulumello, Beyond Winning [Belknap Press, 2004], 37-38)

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Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision-Making

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This masterly book substantially extends Howard Raiffa’s earlier classic, The Art and Science of Negotiation. It does so by incorporating three additional supporting strands of inquiry:

Individual decision analysis
Judgmental decision making
Game theory

 

Each strand is introduced and used in analyzing negotiations.

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Clearinghouse Releases New Mediation Training Video

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The Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse announces the release of a new mediation training video, produced as a collaborative venture between the Program on Negotiation and the Center for Mediation in Law. The video, entitled Saving the Last Dance: Mediation Through Understanding, demonstrates the “Mediation through Understanding” mediation model that Gary J. Friedman, Jack Himmelstein, and