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
position
A proposed outcome that represents one way among many that issues might be resolved and interests met. Explicit demands made during a negotiation often represent a partyÕs position, although the underlying interest may be broader and quite different. (Michael L. Moffitt and Robert C. Bordone, eds., Handbook of Dispute Resolution [Program on Negotiation/Jossey-Bass, 2005], 280)
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No Man’s Land
Film and Discussion with
Danis Tanovic
Bosnian Director
and Harvard Law School Professor
Robert Mnookin
Set in the midst of the recent Balkan wars, No Man’s Land is a powerful account of the relationship that develops between two enemy soldiers—a Serb and a Bosnian—who are trapped together in the same trench. When the United Nations begrudgingly decides to come to
Conflict With Iraq: What Role For Negotiation?
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Conflict with Iraq
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Panelists:
Roger Fisher
Samuel Williston Professor of Law Emeritus
Harvard Law School
Robert Mnookin
Samuel Williston Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Michael Watkins
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Moderator:
Brian Mandell
Lecturer in Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government
On November 20th, 2002, as President Bush spoke at a NATO meeting in Prague about the disarmament
Shapiro Facilitates Training for Serbian Governmental Officials
Dr. Daniel L. Shapiro, an Associate at the Harvard Negotiation Project and a Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., was recently invited by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) to facilitate negotiation training in Montenegro for Serbian governmental officials. Among those represented were members of the Education, Judicial, Environment, and Labor Committees of
Raiffa Receives Honorary Degree From Harvard University
Howard Raiffa, Director Emeritus of the Program on Negotiation’s Negotiation Roundtable received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Harvard University’s 2002 Commencement Excercises. Raiffa is Harvard University’s Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics Emeritus, and a pioneer in the field of decision analysis. A mathematician by training, Raiffa is an originator of
Breakthrough International Negotiation
First Title Published in New Book Series
Playing for high stakes — in politics, business or everyday life — demands “breakthrough” negotiation, according to Michael Watkins, professor at the Harvard Business School, and Susan Rosegrant of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Their new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed The World’s
Susan Hackley Named PON Managing Director
The Program on Negotiation’s Steering Committee has announced the appointment of Susan Hackley as PON’s new Managing Director. She assumed the post October 1, 2001. According to Steering Committee Chair Robert Mnookin, “Susan brings energy and expertise to the position of managing director, and has the additional benefit of already being familiar with PON’s projects
Public Conversation Project Shares Work on Abortion Conflict
For more than five years, the Public Conversations Project in collaboration with Susan Podziba, a public policy mediator and PON seminar instructor, has been facilitating on ongoing confidential dialogue among a group of pro-life and pro-choice leaders in Boston. On January 28, 2001, the Boston Sunday Globe published “Talking to the Enemy” a lengthy article
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