“In the polarized atmosphere of Washington, D.C. today, consensus is becoming an increasingly rare commodity, as this year’s debates over health care reform and financial regulation have made clear. To help curb that trend, twenty senior federal officials – both Republicans and Democrats – met in Washington in July to hone
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Former President Martti Ahtisaari honored with Great Negotiator Award!
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Will Honor Former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari with the 2010 Great Negotiator Award
Co-sponsored with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Great Negotiator Event Offers Real-World Negotiation Discussion to All Students
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CAMBRIDGE, MA (September 21, 2010) The Program on Negotiation
What Makes a Good Mediator?
Adapted from “Rapport Comes First,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
How is it that mediators—who themselves lack any power to impose a solution—nevertheless often lead bitter disputants to agreement? Substantive expertise helps, as does keen analytic skill. But according to a survey by Northwestern University law professor Stephen Goldberg, veteran mediators believe that establishing rapport
David Seibel
David G. Seibel is Co-Founder and President of the conflict management firms Insight Partners and the non-profit Insight Collaborative. He helps individuals and organizations articulate their key interests and find creative options to meet them. He is a trainer, consultant, mediator, and professor in the fields of effective negotiation, communication, mediation and dispute resolution.
Choose Your Words
Adapted from “Metaphorical Negotiation,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
Negotiators talk about building agreement, bluffing the opposition, and volleying offers back and forth. According to mediator Thomas Smith, careful attention to such metaphors can reveal deeper meaning beneath the explicit words that people use, notably regarding how they view the negotiation process and their relationship
David Hoffman
David Hoffman teaches the Mediation course at Harvard Law School, and has served as a guest lecturer in a variety of PON programs. He is a mediator, arbitrator, and attorney at Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, which he founded in 2003. BLC was the recipient in 2009 of the American Bar Association’s annual Lawyer as
Are You Overlooking Mediation?
Adapted from “Why Aren’t Mediation and Arbitration More Popular?” First published in the Negotiation newsletter.
Many scholars have noted that the business community would greatly benefit from third-party dispute resolution services. The problem is, there isn’t much demand for mediation or arbitration. If the alternative dispute resolution field has in fact built a better mousetrap, why
Florrie Darwin
Florrie Darwin is a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, where she teaches in the negotiation workshop. At HLS she has co-created and taught a course on “Negotiating Leadership.” She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Telling the Third Story
Adapted from “How to Say What Matters Most,” by Susan Hackley (managing director, Program on Negotiation), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
In their book Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Penguin Putnam, 2000), authors Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen tell us how to engage in the conversations in our professional or
Kimberlyn Leary
Kimberlyn Leary is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Chief Psychologist at the Cambridge Health Alliance and. In 2009, received an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, attending on a Public Services Fellowship.
Professor Leary’s major areas of teaching, clinical activity and research are directed at enhancing effective clinical practice in psychotherapy and
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