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Understanding how to arrange the meeting space is a key aspect of preparing for negotiation. In this video, Professor Guhan Subramanian discusses a real world example of how seating arrangements can influence a negotiator’s success. This discussion was held at the 3 day executive education workshop for senior executives at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Guhan Subramanian is the Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School.

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  • BATNA
    • BATNA Examples—and What You Can Learn from Them
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    • What is BATNA? How to Find Your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement
    • Know Your BATNA: The Power of Information in Negotiation
  • Business Negotiations
    • Negotiation Preparation Strategies
    • M&A Negotiation Strategy: How Iger and Lucas Launched Star Wars into a New Era
    • Successes & Messes: A Notoriously Bad Business Contract
    • What is the Right of First Refusal?
    • In the Negotiation Campaign for Warner Bros., Did Paramount Lose the Plot?
  • Conflict Resolution
    • What is Conflict Resolution, and How Does It Work?
    • Ripeness Theory in Dispute Resolution: Seizing the Day
    • Types of Conflict in Business Negotiation—and How to Avoid Them
    • The Two Koreas Practice Conflict Management
    • 5 Conflict Resolution Strategies That Actually Work
  • Crisis Negotiations
    • Crisis Negotiation Skills: The Hostage Negotiator’s Drill
    • What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
    • Crisis Communication Examples: What’s So Funny?
    • Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
    • AI Negotiation in the News
  • Dealing with Difficult People
    • Using Negotiation Theory to Understand Personal Identity
    • M&A Negotiation Strategy: Dealing with an Unpredictable Counterpart
    • How to Manage Difficult Staff: Gen Z Edition
    • Trust and Honesty in Negotiations: Dealing with Dishonest Negotiators
    • How to Renegotiate a Bad Deal
  • Dealmaking
    • What is Distributive Negotiation and Five Proven Strategies
    • What Is Multiparty Negotiation? Definition, Challenges, and Strategies
    • Dealmaking Secrets from Henry Kissinger
    • 7 Tips for Closing the Deal in Negotiations
    • A Dispute-Resolution Case Study: How Tom Petty and Sam Smith Avoided Litigation
  • Dispute Resolution
    • In Contract Negotiations, Agree on How You’ll Disagree
    • Emotional Triggers: How Emotions Affect Your Negotiating Ability
    • The Door in the Face Technique: Will It Backfire?
    • Alternative Dispute Resolution Examples: Restorative Justice
    • Negotiation Case Studies: Google’s Approach to Dispute Resolution
  • International Negotiation
    • International Negotiations: North and South Korea Talks Collapse
    • Famous Negotiators: Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin
    • India’s Direct Approach to Conflict Resolution
    • The Multi-Door Courthouse: How Alternative Dispute Resolution Expands Access to Justice
    • Managing Cultural Differences in Negotiation
  • Leadership Skills
    • Servant Leadership Theory
    • The Trait Theory of Leadership
    • Leadership and Decision-Making: Empowering Better Decisions
    • Implicit and Explicit Bias: When Negotiators Discriminate Based on Race
    • What Is Facilitative Leadership?
  • Mediation
    • Employee Mediation Techniques – Resolve Disputes and Manage Conflict with These Mediation Skills
    • Why is Negotiation Important: Mediation in Transactional Negotiations
    • Arbitration vs Mediation: The Definition of Mediation as a Problem Solving Process
    • AI Mediation: Using AI to Help Mediate Disputes
    • Using E-Mediation and Online Mediation Techniques for Conflict Resolution
  • Negotiation Skills
    • 3 Types of Power in Negotiation
    • Communication in Negotiation: How Hard Should You Push?
    • Negotiation Strategies: Emotional Expression at the Bargaining Table
    • BATNA Strategy: When to Reveal Your BATNA
    • Negotiation Questions: How Asking Better Questions Leads to Better Deals
  • Negotiation Training
    • Collaborative Negotiation Examples: Tenants and Landlords
    • Ethics and Negotiation: 5 Principles of Negotiation to Boost Your Bargaining Skills in Business Situations
    • 3-D Negotiation Strategy
    • Gender and Negotiation: New Research Findings
    • Use a Negotiation Preparation Worksheet for Continuous Improvement
  • Salary Negotiations
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  • Teaching Negotiation
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    • New Simulation: Teaching Multi‑Party Negotiation on Energy, Environment, and Community Impacts
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  • Win-Win Negotiations
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    • 5 Win-Win Negotiation Strategies
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NEGOTIATION MASTER CLASS

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  • Managing Complex Negotiations March and June 2026 Program Guide
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Teaching Negotiation Resource Center

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Preparing for Negotiation

Understanding how to arrange the meeting space is a key aspect of preparing for negotiation. In this video, Professor Guhan Subramanian discusses a real world example of how seating arrangements can influence a negotiator’s success. This discussion was held at the 3 day executive education workshop for senior executives at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Guhan Subramanian is the Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School.

Articles & Insights

  • BATNA
    • BATNA Examples—and What You Can Learn from Them
    • Negotiation Examples: How Crisis Negotiators Use Text Messaging
    • 10 Hard-Bargaining Tactics to Watch Out for in a Negotiation
    • What is BATNA? How to Find Your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement
    • Know Your BATNA: The Power of Information in Negotiation
  • Business Negotiations
    • Negotiation Preparation Strategies
    • M&A Negotiation Strategy: How Iger and Lucas Launched Star Wars into a New Era
    • Successes & Messes: A Notoriously Bad Business Contract
    • What is the Right of First Refusal?
    • In the Negotiation Campaign for Warner Bros., Did Paramount Lose the Plot?
  • Conflict Resolution
    • What is Conflict Resolution, and How Does It Work?
    • Ripeness Theory in Dispute Resolution: Seizing the Day
    • Types of Conflict in Business Negotiation—and How to Avoid Them
    • The Two Koreas Practice Conflict Management
    • 5 Conflict Resolution Strategies That Actually Work
  • Crisis Negotiations
    • Crisis Negotiation Skills: The Hostage Negotiator’s Drill
    • What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
    • Crisis Communication Examples: What’s So Funny?
    • Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
    • AI Negotiation in the News
  • Dealing with Difficult People
    • Using Negotiation Theory to Understand Personal Identity
    • M&A Negotiation Strategy: Dealing with an Unpredictable Counterpart
    • How to Manage Difficult Staff: Gen Z Edition
    • Trust and Honesty in Negotiations: Dealing with Dishonest Negotiators
    • How to Renegotiate a Bad Deal
  • Dealmaking
    • What is Distributive Negotiation and Five Proven Strategies
    • What Is Multiparty Negotiation? Definition, Challenges, and Strategies
    • Dealmaking Secrets from Henry Kissinger
    • 7 Tips for Closing the Deal in Negotiations
    • A Dispute-Resolution Case Study: How Tom Petty and Sam Smith Avoided Litigation
  • Dispute Resolution
    • In Contract Negotiations, Agree on How You’ll Disagree
    • Emotional Triggers: How Emotions Affect Your Negotiating Ability
    • The Door in the Face Technique: Will It Backfire?
    • Alternative Dispute Resolution Examples: Restorative Justice
    • Negotiation Case Studies: Google’s Approach to Dispute Resolution
  • International Negotiation
    • International Negotiations: North and South Korea Talks Collapse
    • Famous Negotiators: Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin
    • India’s Direct Approach to Conflict Resolution
    • The Multi-Door Courthouse: How Alternative Dispute Resolution Expands Access to Justice
    • Managing Cultural Differences in Negotiation
  • Leadership Skills
    • Servant Leadership Theory
    • The Trait Theory of Leadership
    • Leadership and Decision-Making: Empowering Better Decisions
    • Implicit and Explicit Bias: When Negotiators Discriminate Based on Race
    • What Is Facilitative Leadership?
  • Mediation
    • Employee Mediation Techniques – Resolve Disputes and Manage Conflict with These Mediation Skills
    • Why is Negotiation Important: Mediation in Transactional Negotiations
    • Arbitration vs Mediation: The Definition of Mediation as a Problem Solving Process
    • AI Mediation: Using AI to Help Mediate Disputes
    • Using E-Mediation and Online Mediation Techniques for Conflict Resolution
  • Negotiation Skills
    • 3 Types of Power in Negotiation
    • Communication in Negotiation: How Hard Should You Push?
    • Negotiation Strategies: Emotional Expression at the Bargaining Table
    • BATNA Strategy: When to Reveal Your BATNA
    • Negotiation Questions: How Asking Better Questions Leads to Better Deals
  • Negotiation Training
    • Collaborative Negotiation Examples: Tenants and Landlords
    • Ethics and Negotiation: 5 Principles of Negotiation to Boost Your Bargaining Skills in Business Situations
    • 3-D Negotiation Strategy
    • Gender and Negotiation: New Research Findings
    • Use a Negotiation Preparation Worksheet for Continuous Improvement
  • Salary Negotiations
    • How to Ask for a Raise: 3 Research-Backed Strategies That Improve Your Odds
    • Negotiating a Salary When Compensation Is Public
    • Salary Negotiations: A Lesson from Meryl Streep
    • Negotiating Salary: Confronting the Gender Pay Gap
    • Career Negotiations and the Pay Gap
  • Teaching Negotiation
    • New International Negotiation Simulations: Teaching International Negotiation with Current Global Dynamics
    • New Great Negotiator Case: Christiana Figueres and the Road to the Paris Agreement
    • New Simulation: Teaching Multi‑Party Negotiation on Energy, Environment, and Community Impacts
    • Camp Lemonnier: Negotiating a Lease Agreement for a Key Military Base in Africa
    • When Deceptive Tactics in Negotiation Arise from “Paranoid Pessimism
  • Win-Win Negotiations
    • For NFL Players, a Win-Win Negotiation Contract Only in Retrospect?
    • Win-Lose Negotiation Examples
    • 5 Win-Win Negotiation Strategies
    • How to Create Win-Win Situations in Business Negotiation
    • How to Negotiate Mutually Beneficial Noncompete Agreements

PON Publications

  • Negotiation Journal
  • Negotiation Data Repository (NDR)
  • Harvard Negotiation Law Review

Free Videos

  • PON AI Summit: Welcome and Introduction
  • PON AI Summit: AI Negotiation Competitions
  • PON AI Summit: AI as a Researcher
  • PON AI Summit: AI as a Negotiator and Mediator
  • PON AI Summit: AI as a Coach

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