Bring Long-Term Concerns to the Bargaining Table

| | Dealmaking

It can be difficult to keep future concerns at the forefront of your company’s most important decisions. Fortunatly, research on intergenerational conflict has uncovered best practices for … Read Bring Long-Term Concerns to the Bargaining Table

Negotiation Design Dimensions: A Checklist

| | Negotiation Skills

Here the Program on Negotiation offers a checklist of negotiation design categories. Whether your overall negotiation design is decide-announce-defend (DAD) or full-consensus (FC), or a hybrid of … Read Negotiation Design Dimensions: A Checklist

Plant a Trust Land Mine

| | Negotiation Skills

In any negotiation, you’re likely to have information about the other party or about the deal (industry facts, economic health, new products, and so on) that the … Read Plant a Trust Land Mine

2013 Winner of the Raiffa Doctoral Student Paper Award

| | Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Negotiation Skills

The Program on Negotiation has awarded Netta Barak-Corren the 2013 Howard Raiffa Doctoral Student Paper Award for her paper, co-written with Edy Glozman and Ilan Yaniv, “False … Read This Post

Leaving millions on the table

| | Mediation

It’s hard to imagine a situation in which negotiating counterparts would choose to sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars rather than reach agreement. But this is the … Read Leaving millions on the table

Bet you didn’t know… New research on employee satisfaction, sadness, and selfless negotiators.

| | Business Negotiations

Satisfied employees, satisfied customers?
In a new study, Shu-Cheng Steve Chi of the National Taiwan University and his colleagues find that the degree to which salespeople enjoy their … Read This Post

HNLR Symposium Review: “Ideas and Impact: Roger Fisher’s Legacy”

| | Dispute Resolution, Events, Videos

On March 2, 2013, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review held their 2013 Symposium, entitled “Ideas and Impact: Roger Fisher’s Legacy.” This event celebrated Professor Fisher, co-founder of … Read This Post

Announcing the 2013-2014 PON Graduate Research Fellows

| | Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Daily, Graduate Research Fellowships, PON Graduate Research Fellowships

The Program on Negotiation Graduate Research Fellowships are designed to encourage young scholars from the social sciences and professional disciplines to pursue theoretical, empirical, and/or applied research … Read This Post

PON panel discusses Track II Negotiations, Islands of Coordination and Unilateral Moves in the New Middle East

| | International Negotiation, Middle East Negotiation Initiatives, Videos

On March 4th, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School hosted a panel discussion entitled: “Negotiations by Other Means: Track II, Unilateral Action, Robust Third Party … Read This Post

Social Perceptions at the Crossroads: Why Sex (Still) Impacts the Perception and Evaluation of Other Status-Linked Identities

| | Events, Mediation

On November 1, 2012, Professor Kerri Johnson from the University of California, Los Angeles, delivered a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her lecture, entitled “Social Perceptions … Read This Post

Complexity Personified: International Standards Negotiations from a Microsoft Manager’s Perspective

| | International Negotiation, Videos

Complexity Personified: International Standards Negotiations from a Microsoft Manager’s Perspective
On April 3, 2013, the Program on Negotiation hosted Jason Matusow, General Manager of International Standards at Microsoft, … Read This Post

Wheelers and Dealers?

| | Negotiation Skills

Car salespeople truly understand how to use modest concessions to extract much larger ones.

First, they spend a long time legitimating the sticker price and suggesting that it’s … Read Wheelers and Dealers?