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Obama healthcare moves follow Harvard playbook

Posted by & filed under Daily, Negotiation Skills.

President Obama’s healthcare reform game plan is classic “3-D Negotiation,” a strategy developed at the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

We have no idea whether the President or his aides are students of the Harvard approach, as set out by Prof. James K. Sebenius, vice chair of the Program on Negotiation, and co-author David Lax, in their

Coping with cultural differences

Posted by & filed under Daily, International Negotiation.

Have you ever found yourself negotiating with people from other cultures, whether at home or abroad?  If so, did you try to adapt your negotiating style to fit the other person or team’s culture, and if so, how?

Most negotiators understand that cultural differences are likely to be a factor in negotiations. Unfortunately, many negotiators actually

Harvard Negotiation Institute Begins!

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On the morning of June 8, 2009, hundreds of participants from around the world began their week-long intensive Basic Negotiation Workshop and Mediation Workshop.  Participants will engage with instructors Bruce Patton and Frank Sander for five days of interactive study.  There are still seats available in our 2-Day Intensive  Basic Negotiation course, which begins Thursday,

PON Creates Its First YouTube Video

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Thousands of people every year come to Program on Negotiation Seminars from around the world.  Professor Robert Mnookin, PON Faculty Chair, describes what you will experience at a Negotiation Seminar.

To apply now, click here.

Teachers and Trainers Gather to Talk About Mediation Pedagogy

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

By Larry Susskind

Nearly two hundred educators and trainers from eighteen countries gathered on May 15th and 16th to share ideas about teaching mediation.  It was unusual for mediation teachers and trainers from fields as diverse as law, family services, public management, business, international relations, urban planning, community development, psychotherapy, and education to share ideas on

Robert Bordone Appointed Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

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Robert Bordone, founding Director of the HLS Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program and the Thaddeus R. Beal Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, was promoted Thursday to full Clinical Professor of Law by unanimous vote of the HLS faculty, Acting Dean Howell Jackson has announced.

Bordone will be teaching two workshops at the Harvard Negotiation Institute this

Mediation Pedagogy Conference

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Registration is now closed for the NP@PON Mediation Pedagogy Conference.

Professors Lawrence Susskind (MIT) and Michael Wheeler (Harvard Business School) are pleased to announce a Mediation Pedagogy Conference to be held by Negotiation Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (NP@PON). This two-day Conference will be held Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May

An Author’s Reception with Hal Movius and Larry Susskind

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On May 6, 2009, Hal Movius and Larry Susskind spoke about their new book “Built to Win: Creating a World Class Negotiating Organization” (Harvard Business Publishing) at an author’s reception in the PON Library. Movius and Susskind were available to sign copies of their book and answer questions.

Complementary Approaches to Coexistence Work: Focus on Coexistence and Human Rights

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A new publication by Eileen Babbitt and Kristin Williams is available from Coexistence International. This paper, Complementary Approaches
to Coexistence Work: Focus on Coexistence and Human Rights (pdf, 251KB), focuses on the potential for the fields of of coexistence and human rights to cooperate and share tools and strategies in order to mitigate both inter-group violence

Let’s Talk

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McCain and Obama disagree on whether the president should meet with dictators and tyrants. But scholars suggest the answer is clear.

June 22, 2008

By Mark Oppenheimer

This year’s presidential election has again brought up the debate on whether the president should meet with dictators or tyrants. There seems to be two clear sides, each representing a stark