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Adapted from “What to Do When the Table Gets Crowded,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter, May 2008.
Negotiators often have to deal with more than one party to reach their goals. These situations pose unique challenges, yet most negotiation advice focuses on talks between two parties.
Where can we turn for guidance? For many years, Harvard
Kessely Hong is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. In her research, she examines how gender and other status differences influence trust, stereotypes, and partisan perceptions in negotiations. Kessely teaches the “Introduction to Negotiation Analysis” course at HKS, and also teaches about negotiation in the Senior Executive Fellows and other Executive Education Programs. As a graduate student, she won the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching. She has been a fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at HKS, the Program on Negotiation at HLS, and the Harvard University Native American Program. Before coming to the Kennedy School, Kessely worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company and taught English in Ecuador. She earned her PhD in Public Policy and MPA from the Kennedy School, and her BA from Harvard College.
The deadline for the 2014-2015 academic year is February 12th, 2014.
The Program on Negotiation Graduate Research Fellowships are designed to encourage young scholars from the social sciences and professional disciplines to pursue theoretical, empirical, and/or applied research in negotiation and dispute resolution. Consistent with the PON goal of fostering the development of the next generation
Is there a social cost for women who negotiate assertively for themselves in the workplace? Research suggests that women who negotiated higher compensation are viewed by evaluators as being more “demanding,” which leads to a disinclination to work with them in the future. In our most recent “Dear Negotiation Coach” feature in the Negotiation newsletter, Hannah Riley Bowles, associate professor at Harvard Business School, shares tips on how women can navigate around this obstacle while still obtaining the compensation they deserve.
The lack of progress on the debt ceiling negotiations has raised serious concerns that an agreement will not be reached before the August 2nd deadline. How have the negotiations gotten so derailed?
In a recent interview on Radio Boston, Professor Robert Bordone, director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, suggested that one of the
In this video, Professor Iris Bohnet, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program and Academic Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the “nudge” approach to closing the gender gap in the workplace. Professor Bohnet teaches negotiation skills and strategy in the Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives.
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The New York Times
Co-authored by Robert Mnookin (Samuel Williston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Chair, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School) and Alain Verbeke
Belgium’s days as a united nation may be numbered. In this 2006 piece, the authors summarize the conflicts that divide the country and offer an ironic prediction that every negotiator
Adapted from “The Crucial First Five Minutes,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter, October 2007.
Your designated meeting place can have a critical impact on talks. When you don’t have a choice about where to meet, be aware that situational factors may color your judgment. For instance, the visual cues of a car lot—flashy banners, cheerful
Sreedhari Desai, a PON Graduate Research Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year, was recently featured in an Op-Ed in the Boston Globe. Desai’s research examines the ways in which childhood cues can make businesses more charitable and individuals more honest. The full text of the article can be found here.
About Sreedhari Desai:
Sreedhari Desai is an
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PON offers fellowship grants to students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University and other Boston-area schools who are doing internships or undertaking summer research projects in negotiation and dispute resolution in partnership with public, non-profit or academic organizations. The Summer Fellowship Program’s emphasis is on advancing the links between
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