Why are some negotiation exercises still used in a great many university classes even twenty years after they were written? In an effort to understand more about the enduring quality of some classic teaching materials, we asked faculty affiliated with PON to explain why they think some role play simulations remain bestsellers in the Clearinghouse
frame
The story or narrative each bargainer tells herself about the negotiation. Your frame in a negotiation reveals how you understand what you and the other bargainer are negotiating and what you think the task ahead is. (Robert H. Mnookin, Scott R. Peppet and Andrew S. Tulumello, Beyond Winning [Belknap Press, 2004], 207)
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Clearinghouse Customers Speak!
In an effort to understand more about how the PON Clearinghouse does and doesn’t meet its customers’ needs, we interviewed a number of long-time Clearinghouse clients. We asked what teaching materials they found most valuable and for what reasons. We also asked how they found out about the Clearinghouse and what additional teaching and training
The Ambidextrous Negotiator
Adapted from “Evenhanded Decision Making,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter, May 2006.
As discussed in past issues of the Negotiation newsletter, anchoring and framing can bias important decisions in negotiation. A buyer may make a more generous offer than she intended, for example, after a seller drops anchor on a bold demand. A litigant who
The Dynamics of Nonviolent Power:
Egypt, Tunisia and beyond
The Dynamics of Nonviolent Power:
Egypt, Tunisia and beyond
with
Hardy Merriman
Senior Advisor at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
Date: April 20, 2011
Time: 12:00PM to 1:30PM
Where: Pound Hall, Room 108, Harvard Law School Campus
Bring your lunch. Drinks and dessert will be served.
Click here for a campus map.
About the lunch:
What makes nonviolent, civilian-based movements effective? What
The Criminalization of Conflict Resolution, March 25, 2011
The Criminalization of Conflict Resolution
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project’s Impact on
ADR and Human Rights Work
Presented By:
Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School,
and the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program
Make Your Best Offer Look Better
Adapted from “Picking the Right Frame: Make Your Best Offer Seem Better,” by Max H. Bazerman (professor, Harvard Business School), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
Imagine that you bought a house in 2000 for $400,000. You have just put it on the market for $499,000, with a real target of $470,000—your estimation of the house’s
Erica Fox
Erica Ariel Fox is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and the President of Mobius Executive Leadership. She is a founding member of the Global Network for Negotiation Insight Exchange, GNNIE, or “genie”, which began at PON as the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative. Over many years of teaching negotiation
Let Them Compare and Contrast
Adapted from “Will Your Proposals Hit the Mark?” First published in the Negotiation newsletter.
In negotiation, it’s always better when someone accepts your offer rather than rejecting it, right? Actually, rejection can sometimes be the most effective way to get to “yes.”
Let’s look at another story about consumer behavior, as described by Itamar Simonson of Stanford’s
Frames of Mind: Good Negotiations Can Depend on Finding the Right Approach to the Issues
Jeswald W. Salacuse (Henry J. Baker Professor of Law; former Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; author of The Global Negotiator and Seven Secrets for Negotiating with Government)
The way you characterize or frame a situation can influence people’s thinking in a negotiation. Setting the terms can help, or hinder, your side. In
Norwegian Foreign Minister visits PON
On December 6, 2010, faculty and associates from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School met at a private lunch with Norway’s Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr Store, and the ambassador of Norway to the U.S., Wegger Chr. Strommen. At the meeting, the Foreign Minister described how he helped bring decades of negotiation with the
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