About: Katie Shonk

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Katherine Shonk is the editor of the Negotiation Briefings newsletter, a monthly source of negotiation advice for professionals published by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is also a research associate for Harvard Business School and was formerly employed by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Shonk received her BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MA in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin. She has published articles in the Harvard Business Review and other management journals. An accomplished fiction writer, Shonk is the author of a novel, Happy Now?, and a short story collection, The Red Passport.

  • Professional Negotiators: Give Texts a Chance
  • Business Negotiation Strategies When Your Boss Is the Problem
  • Creating Value in Negotiations through Word Choice
  • What is Divorce Mediation?
  • Hostage Negotiation Techniques for Business Negotiators
  • 10 Notable Negotiations
  • Mandated Mediation: What to Expect
  • Learning From Negotiation Role-Plays
  • Effective Negotiation Techniques: Strive for a Precision Advantage
  • Managing Cultural Differences in Negotiation
  • Making Business Deals that Thrive Across Cultures
  • Deal-Making Techniques for When You Feel Powerless
  • Contract Dispute Resolution: Surviving Costly Conflict
  • Business Negotiation Solutions: To Eat or Not to Eat?
  • Hardball Tactics in Negotiation Increase with Rivalry
  • Handling Difficult People: The Antisocial Negotiator
  • Conflict-Solving Strategies: The Value of Taking a Break
  • Negotiation Strategies for Dealing with Spoilers
  • Building Trust in Negotiations
  • Win-Win Negotiation Techniques: Create Value with Rivals
  • Corporate Negotiation Pitfalls: The Case of Facebook
  • Conflict Resolution Scenarios: Negotiating Values
  • Claiming Value in Negotiation: Do Extreme Requests Backfire?
  • Negotiation Techniques and Tactics: Power Plays
  • Win-Win Negotiation Skills: Motivate Good Behavior in the #MeToo Era
  • Business Negotiation Solutions: Coping with Low Power
  • 10 Notable Negotiations of 2018
  • How Negotiators Can Stay on Target at the Bargaining Table
  • Negotiation Skills and Strategies at Work: Negotiating Jewish Identity
  • Videoconferencing: A Win-Win Negotiation Strategy?
  • Negotiate Business Contracts that Last
  • ESL Negotiation: Avoid Confusion and Conflict
  • The Anchoring Bias Can Get Talks off to a Strong Start
  • Compensation Negotiation Tips for Salary Bargaining
  • In This Greece Crisis Negotiation, Tough Conditions May Have Affected the Deal
  • A Contingent Agreement Can Allow Negotiators to Agree to Disagree
  • How to Manage Conflict at Work
  • When Conflict Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • How to Write a Contract that Lasts
  • Negotiation Training with Heart
  • A Bad BATNA for Modern Farmer Magazine
  • How to Deal with Difficult People
  • Deal Design: Strategies for Complex Dealmaking
  • Family Business Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
  • Crisis Negotiations: After the West Coast Ports Conflict, Damage Remained
  • For Better Negotiation Training, Study the U.S. Government’s Mistakes
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  • Negotiation Habits of Great Women Leaders