Recent delays at a manufacturing company have cut deeply into company profits. The management appoints a multi-departmental team to come up with a way of speeding up the launch of new products. A vice president of manufacturing is put in charge of overseeing the effort and is encouraged to use consensus building techniques to take
facilitator
A professional trained to help parties negotiate productively. The role of a facilitator may vary, but in most cases they are responsible for keeping the conversation on track and communication open. (Lawrence E. Susskind and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Breaking RobertÕs Rules [Oxford University Press, USA, 2006], 27)
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China’s Camp David Moment
Anne Wu is a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Jason Qian is a fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project.
THE RULE of the game in pursuing a non-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula has been fundamentally changed by Pyongyang’s claimed nuclear test. The adopted
New Developments in Workplace Dispute Resolution: Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States
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
Panel Discussion: The Stalled Six-Party Talks and the North Korean Nuclear Issue
Moderator:
Professor James K. Sebenius
Facilitator:
Cheng (Jason) Qian
THE SIX-PARTY TALKS created to resolve the North Korean nuclear problem have lost momentum again since last November. All six parties — North Korea, the US, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia — agreed on a denuclearization statement in September 2005. When the United States imposed sanctions on North Korean
Street Level Negotiations: City Governance and Ethnic Tension in Amsterdam
Speakers:
David Laws
Continental Breakfast at 8:00
Peervision Case Conference: 8:30-9:45am
MIT Lecturer David Laws will discuss his ongoing work in Amsterdam where he has worked closely with city leaders to promote dialogue and ease ethnic tensions. This will be an interactive presentation with Dr. Laws soliciting insight and suggestions from the audience on how best to use negotiation
The Mediator as “Negotiation Consultant”
Presenter:
Charles P. Doran
Charles P. Doran’s presentation will focus on how a mediator negotiates with parties on many different levels during the mediation process. Mr. Doran will discuss how the mediator can serve as “negotiation consultant,” encouraging parties to view their dispute through a different lens, such as the Seven-Element Negotiation Framework developed at the Harvard
Negotiating Complementary Medicine
Presenter:
Michael H. Cohen, JD
In his presentation, Michael Cohen will discuss negotiation challenges inherent in bringing complementary and alternative medical therapies (such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, and herbal medicine) into conventional medical settings. He will also address some of the legal and ethical issues involved in integrating complementary therapies.
Michael H. Cohen, JD, is Assistant Professor of
Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
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
Careers in Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Perspectives from the Field
Webcast
Careers in Negotiation
RealPlayer Recommended (download here)
The Program on Negotiation Student Interest Group hosted a panel discussion, “Careers in Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Perspectives from the Field,” Thursday, April 17 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at Harvard Law School.
In this career roundtable discussion, six professional conflict management practitioners provided insight about negotiation and ADR opportunities along with
Preparing Disputants for Effective Participation in ADR
Presenters:
Sallyann Roth and Robert R. Stains
“ADR practitioners face many dilemmas when parties to a conflict have markedly different social, economic, and educational backgrounds with unequal access to resources. Issues of language, articulation, meeting structure, mediator role and status, mutual assumptions, physical environment, and fairness in the session must be considered. We will explore the effects
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