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Negotiation and Neuroscience: Possible Lessons for Negotiation Instruction

Posted by & filed under Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation (Pedagogy @ PON).

By Todd Schenk

Can an Understanding of Neuroscience Help Inform Teaching Negotiation? 

Cognition and emotion are important elements of negotiation, from the emergence of disputes through the implementation of agreements. The growing body of research in the cognitive sciences may be able to help us improve negotiation instruction. Thus, the fall 2012 Negotiation Pedagogy Faculty Dinner Seminar

PON faculty member Daniel Shapiro takes part in panel discussion reflecting on the World Economic Forum

Posted by & filed under Conflict Resolution, Daily, International Negotiation, Middle East Negotiation Initiative.

In a panel discussion on February 3 at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard faculty members shared their reflections on this year’s annual summit of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  Panelists included Dr. Daniel Shapiro of the Harvard Negotiation Project, as well as Kennedy School faculty Charles W. Eliot

Daniel Shapiro receives award for his innovative work on identity-based conflict

Posted by & filed under International Negotiation, News.

Harvard psychologist and PON affiliated faculty member, Daniel L. Shapiro, Ph.D., has been awarded the highly competitive Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI).  SPSSI recently announced the award in recognition of his article, “Relational Identity Theory: A Systematic Approach for Transforming the Emotional

Dealing with emotions during tough economic times

Posted by & filed under Negotiation Skills.

A major measure of the economy is the prevailing mood. A bleak job market and less-than-rosy economic outlook influence how we feel in an organization. Tighter budgets and increased layoffs are causes for concern, and many of us respond with “fight or flight” behavior.  We defend our turf or avoid tense conversations in the hopes

Negotiation tactics in the spotlight as debt ceiling debate continues

Posted by & filed under Daily, Negotiation Skills.

The lack of progress on the debt ceiling negotiations has raised serious concerns that an agreement will not be reached before the August 2nd deadline.  How have the negotiations gotten so derailed?

In a recent interview on Radio Boston, Professor Robert Bordone, director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, suggested that one of the

Shapiro named 2011 Burke Global Health Fellow

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Professor Daniel Shapiro, Associate Director of the Harvard Mediation Project, has been selected as one of four 2011 Burke Global Health Fellows by the Harvard Global Health Institute. During his fellowship, Professor Shapiro will develop materials for a new Harvard course designed to train leaders on how to mediate conflicts with a strong emotional or

Event: The Psychology of Nazi Doctors

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The Harvard Institute on Global Health (HIGH) and the Harvard International Negotiation Program Present:

“On Embracing Evil: The Psychology of
Nazi Doctors”
with
Robert Jay Lifton
moderated by

Professor Dan Shapiro

What impels people to use religion, ideology, or professional privilege as tools for destructive action? What is the mindset that can take one from healing to killing, or to

Daniel Shapiro

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Daniel Shapiro, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, is on the faculty at Harvard Law School and in the psychiatry department at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital. He also has been on the faculty at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Shapiro holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and specializes in the psychology of negotiation.

About the Harvard Negotiation Project

Posted by & filed under Harvard Negotiation Project.

Director
James K. Sebenius

Founder and Director Emeritus
Roger Fisher

Associate Director
Daniel L. Shapiro

Global Negotiation
William Ury, Co-founder
Joshua Weiss, Co-founder

Distinguished Fellow
Bruce Patton

Fellow
Jason Cheng Qian

Senior Adviser
Mark Gordon

Affiliates
Sheila Heen
Douglas Stone

The Project, or HNP as it is commonly known, was created in 1979 and was one of the founding organizations of the Program on Negotiation consortium. The work of faculty, staff, and students

Negotiating With Your Children

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Harvard International Negotiation Initiative Director Dan Shapiro appeared in a WBZ-TV4 news segment about negotiating with your child. The piece also highlighted the February 2008 Negotiation newsletter article, “Negotiate better relationships with your children.”

Watch it online at WBZ-TV4.

Click here to read the Negotiation newsletter article.

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