What impact do rumors have on business negotiations and bargaining within the workplace? In this article, the effects of office gossip and other forms of unverified information are examined with regard to their impact on negotiation scenarios … Read When Rumors Run Wild in Business Negotiation 
Negotiators often are advised to tamp down strong emotions and behave as rationally as possible at the bargaining table, but that can be easier said than done. More realistically, negotiators need skills and tools that can help them cope with their own potentially destructive emotions and those of their counterparts.
Some people come by these skills … Read Negotiation Research You Can Use
In negotiation, lightbulb moments—the kind that seem to magically dissolve disputes and create stellar contracts—can be few and far between. We might be lucky to have one such flash of insight over the course of a complicated dealmaking process. Recently, Major League Baseball’s (MLB’s) New York Yankees were fortunate to experience a breakthrough that neatly … Read More
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to host
the New England Association for Conflict Resolution 2015 Fall Program:
Identity, Culture and Conflict Resolution
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
UPDATED Schedule
Registration – 6:30 – 7:15 pm
NE-ACR Fall Program – 7:15 pm to 9:20 pm
Location: Austin Hall North, Harvard Law School
Free and open to the public.
Pre-registration encouraged, … Read Identity, Culture and Conflict Resolution
The PON Film Series is pleased to present:
Sabena Hijacking: My Version
Join us for a screening and discussion with:
Nati Dinnar
Creator and producer
and
Rozeen Bisharat
Filmmaker, performer, and activist
Moderated by
Professor James Sebenius
Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Thursday, October 22, 2015
7:00 PM
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Free admission; public welcome. Pizza, salad, and soda will be served.
The PON Film Series is pleased to present:
Two Days, One Night
Join us for a screening and discussion with
labor-management negotiation scholar Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld.
Thursday, October 1, 2014
7:00 PM
Langdell Hall South, Harvard Law School
Free admission; public welcome. Pizza, salad, and soda will be served.
About the film:
For the first time, Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne team up with a … Read “Two Days, One Night” Screening and Discussion
From movie moguls hammering out film deals in Los Angeles to publishers and agents assessing each other’s tastes in New York, the “power lunch” has become a familiar institution. Across the globe, negotiators often do business over shared meals, whether out of convenience or as part of a concerted effort to get to know one … Read More
In all types of negotiations and across all phases of the process, people can sometimes misrepresent or fail to tell the truth. Individual negotiators lie with the hope of improving their own outcomes. When negotiating his salary with the Cranbury, N.J.–based pharmaceutical marketing firm Carter-Wallace in 1997, Robert Bonczek misrepresented his prior title and salary … Read More
Negotiation Skills in Business Communication: Campeau Corporation and Federated Department Stores
Sometimes in negotiation we are forced to deal not only with the issues on the table but also with concerns about status.
One famous instance took place in the late 1980s, when Robert Campeau, head of the Campeau Corporation and then one of Fortune magazine’s “50 … Read More
Framing in negotiation, and the negotiating skills and negotiation tactics that go behind effective bargaining, can help not only achieve a negotiator’s goals at the bargaining table, but also can anticipate the fallout or kickback received from parties away from the negotiation table. President Obama’s tax-cut negotiations with Senate Republicans in late 2010 offer cautionary … Read More
You likely have noticed that this newsletter and other negotiation advice from the Western world tends to promote rationality, logic, and fact finding over emotional reactions or a focus on abstract concepts such as honor. This rational approach dovetails well with the values and assumptions of American and other Western cultures. But how well does … Read More
A risky decision to fend off a corporate raider pays off in the end.
Over the past two years, billionaire investor Nelson Peltz and his hedge fund, Trian Fund Management, fought to win up to four seats on DuPont’s 12-person board of directors in the hope of shaking up the 212-year-old company. Over the same two … Read More
