Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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US News Ranks Harvard #1

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US News & World Report has ranked Dispute Resolution Programs at law schools around the country and rated the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School as #1.

PON is an interuniversity consortium involving faculty, graduate students, and administrative staff from a range of disciplines and professional schools at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Consortium & Boston Area Schools

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For additional information about the current offerings at PON’s consortium schools and other Boston area universities offering courses in conflict resolution and negotiation please visit their websites:

Harvard Business School
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Brandeis University
Simmons College
UMass Boston

Boston-Area Course Offerings

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The courses in this Directory relate to the resolution or management of conflict in a variety of settings. Courses in substantive law in particular fields (such as labor law) are generally not included unless they contain major segments on the resolution of disputes. Courses in related fields, such as arms control and disarmament, are also

PON Honors Bruce Wasserstein with the 2007 Great Negotiator Award

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Business leader Bruce Wasserstein was the 2007 recipient of the Great Negotiator Award given by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. As a graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, he has helped arrange more than a thousand transactions worth hundreds of billions of dollars and is currently the Chairman and

Breaking Robert’s Rules: A Consensus-Building Approach to Organizational Governance

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Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Every day groups engage in debate and reach decisions using Robert’s Rules of Order. Although written with good intent, Robert’s rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule often produces a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns again in the next meeting, in the

Deliberative Democracy: New Directions in Public Policy Dispute Resolution

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June 28-30, 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

www.eppconference.org

The Environment and Public Policy Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) announces that registration is open for its one-of-a-kind, provocative conference to be held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in historic Cambridge, Massachusetts June 28 – 30, 2006. Chaired by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Director of the MIT-Harvard

Negotiation and Leadership: Dealing with Difficult People and Problems

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It’s often said that great leaders are great negotiators. But how does one become an effective negotiator? On-the-job experience certainly plays a role, but for most executives, taking their negotiation skills to the next level requires outside training.

Widely recognized as the preeminent leader in the field of negotiation and negotiation research, the Program on Negotiation is an interdisciplinary, multi-university research center based at Harvard Law School. Our flagship program—newly renamed Negotiation and Leadership—has a long legacy of effectiveness, with more than 25,000 international participants over the past 30 years.

Designed to accelerate your negotiation capabilities, Negotiation and Leadership (formerly called Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives) examines core decision-making challenges, analyzes complex negotiation scenarios, and provides a range of competitive and cooperative negotiation strategies.

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How to Facilitate Dialogue Between the Next Generation of Leaders in North and South Korea

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Join PON for a special three-session discussion on how Track II Diplomacy helps defuse conflict around the world.

At this second session, the panelists will reflect on how to facilitate dialogue between the young leaders of these two countries.

Panelists include:
Roger Fisher, Harvard Law School
Herbert Kelman, Harvard University
Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ronald Fisher, American University
Adil Najam,