Speaker:
Colin Rule, director of online dispute resolution for eBay and PayPal

eBay is big. If you were to count each of eBay’s 200+ million users as citizens, eBay would be the 5th largest country in the world. More than a billion items are sold on the site each year in dozens of countries around the globe. As you might imagine, all … read more »

Ariel Avgar, PON Graduate Research Fellow and PhD Candidate, Cornell University

Join PON Graduate Research Fellow Ariel Avgar for a discussion about dispute resolution in the healthcare industry.

Ariel Avgar’s dissertation, Treating Conflict: Dispute Resolution in the Healthcare Industry, examines outcomes associated with different dispute resolution practices in hospitals. He conducted an in-depth case study of a unique dispute resolution program initiated … read more »

Panelists

Richard Barnes - Executive Director, William J. Usery Center for the Workplace, Georgia State University

Peter J. Hurtgen - Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

Chuck O’Connor - Vice President General Counsel, Maersk Inc.

Joel Schaffer - Commissioner, FMCS

Richard Trumka - Secretary/Treasurer, AFL-CIO

Moderator

Kathleen McGinn - Harvard Business School

Some labor disputes are so critical to the daily life of the United States, they capture … read more »

Workshop I - Mapping Your Own Conflict Resolution Career Path

Workshop II - Getting Your Foot in the Backdoor: Strategies for Building a Career in Conflict Resolution

Workshop III - Strategies for Success as a Conflict Resolution Professional
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Workshop I

Mapping Your Own Conflict
Resolution Career Path
March 8, 2004

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What is the range of backgrounds that can lead to a career … read more »

Please join the Fletcher School and the Program on Negotiation for a public talk and discussion with
Peter J. Hurtgen
the 15th Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

With an introduction by Fletcher Academic Dean Lisa Lynch and responses by Professors Jeswald Salacuse and Adil Najam

Wednesday, April 14, 2004
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Cabot Intercultural Center
170 Packard … read more »

Please join the Fletcher School and the Program on Negotiation for a public talk and discussion with:

Peter J. Hurtgen
the 15th Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

With an introduction by Fletcher Academic Dean Lisa Lynch and responses by Professors Jeswald Salacuse and Adil Najam

Please RSVP to Kim Wright at klwright@law.harvard.edu.

Please join us for a lunch with Don Mullan, … read more »

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School brought together scholars, union members, management representatives, and an array of dispute resolution practitioners to analyze the United States’ largest and most ambitious labor-management partnership on Thursday, March 6, 2003. PON, in conjunction with the Institute for Work and Employment Relations (IWER) at MIT, hosted the labor-relations conference to analyze Interest-Based Negotiations … read more »