timing

The following items are tagged timing.

A Powerful Strike-out

Posted by & filed under Business Negotiations, Daily.

Adapted from “Why Your Next Negotiation Power Trip Could Backfire,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Powerful negotiators generally don’t devote enough time to considering the other side’s point of view, Northwestern University professor Adam D. Galinsky and New York University professor Joe C. Magee have written in Negotiation. As a consequence, the powerful may fail

Let Go of Lawsuits

Posted by & filed under Daily, Dispute Resolution.

Adapted from “Helping Your Adversary to Let Go,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Why is it that so many lawsuits aren’t settled until the parties reach the courthouse steps?

Sometimes the reason is strategic: each side may be waiting for the other to blink first. Dwight Golann, a legal scholar and veteran mediator, has identified another

Pitfalls of the Powerful

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Adapted from “Are You Too Powerful for Your Own Good?” by Ann E. Tenbrunsel (professor, Notre Dame University), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Imagine that you’re a national account sales manager and are preparing to negotiate your annual raise. You have met all your sales objectives and feel that you are not only a valuable

New PON Teaching Materials About the Work of Martti Ahtisaari, 2010 Great Negotiator Award Recipient

Posted by & filed under Daily, Great Negotiator Award, International Negotiation, Negotiation Skills, Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation (Pedagogy @ PON).

The Program on Negotiation’s 2010 Great Negotiator Award was given to former Finnish President, Martti Ahtisaari, for his many significant achievements in the fields of negotiation and diplomacy. He was central to the Namibian independence negotiations in the late 1980s. He also served as chief United Nations negotiator to Kosovo from 2005-2006, and was instrumental

The Art of Case Study Writing

Posted by & filed under Daily, Negotiation Skills, Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation (Pedagogy @ PON), Research Projects.

Little has been written on what it takes to create a great case study of a negotiation. What needs to be taken into account in deciding whether a particular negotiation merits a written case study?  What are the guidelines for writing negotiation cases?  Do the traditional guidelines for preparing case studies in other fields apply?

Letting Them Down Easy

Posted by & filed under Business Negotiations, Daily, Negotiation Skills, Webcasts.

First published in the Negotiation newsletter.

In recent years, a number of new Web-based systems have changed the very structure of negotiation as we know it. One of most famous of these is Priceline.com, which allows consumers to make bids for rental cars, hotel rooms, and air travel-bids that the car-rental firms, hotels, and airlines can

Status Constraints in Negotiation: Gender and Global (vs. Local) Culture in the Arab Gulf

Posted by & filed under Daily, Events.

Women and Public Policy Program Seminar:

Status Constraints in Negotiation:
Gender and Global (vs. Local) Culture in the Arab Gulf
with

Associate Professor Hannah Riley Bowles
Date: December 2, 2010
Time: 11:40am-1:00pm
Where: WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 1st floor

About the Seminar: Studies conducted in the rapidly globalizing Arab Gulf illuminate university students’ psychological experiences of the global and local

Professor Subramanian Featured in NYTimes DealBook

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PON Executive Committee member and author of the book Negotiauctions was featured in the New York Times DealBook discussing the effectiveness of go-shop provisions in contracts. To read the full article, click here.

Professor Subramanian found that “despite the conventional wisdom, go-shops were generally effective and did indeed result in subsequent bids. The one exception

“The Afghan Challenge: What will it take for them to trust their own security forces?”

Posted by & filed under Daily, Events, The Kelman Seminar.

“The Afghan Challenge:  What will it take for them to trust their own security forces?”

with

Paul Bricker
and
Abdul Waheed Wafa

Date: December 7, 2010

Time: 4:00-6:00 PM

Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).

Speaker Bios
Paul W. Bricker, United States, colonel, United States Army is currently

The Kosovo Model for Mideast Peace

Posted by & filed under Daily, International Negotiation.

Nir Eisikovits (director of  Suffolk University’s Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy) and Ehud Eiran (associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School)

“Once Israelis and Palestinians start talking to each other again, all parties may need to find a new way of thinking about what these fragile negotiations