The Mediator as Negotiation Advisor: Team versus Individual Interests

| | Mediation

If you’ve ever been part of an organization team preparing to negotiate an agreement with another organization, you probably have faced this frustrating task: Aligning your individual … Read This Post

Israeli Settlement Withdrawal: Negotiation lessons from the past, and planning for the future

| | Events, International Negotiation, Middle East Negotiation Initiatives

This presentation by Karen Lee Bar-Sinai and Prof. Robert Mnookin is the fourth seminar exploring the role of urban planning in negotiation, co-sponsored by the Middle East … Read This Post

Russia’s Adoption Ban Triggers a Diplomatic Crisis

| | Conflict Resolution

On December 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a ban on adoptions of Russian children by American citizens. The ban was part of a broader … Read This Post

Transferring Negotiation Knowledge

| | Negotiation Skills

After attending intensive executive education courses, managers typically return to the office with a sense of excitement about applying their new knowledge – only to find 200 … Read Transferring Negotiation Knowledge

Taking an Outside View

| | Negotiation Skills

Cognitive biases affect even smart and highly educated negotiators. Unfortunately, awareness of our biases is not enough to prevent their having a negative impact on our next … Read Taking an Outside View

Women and Negotiation: Their Place at the Table in the US and Abroad

| | International Negotiation, Student Events, The Kelman Seminar

Katrin Bennhold, staff writer for the International Herald Tribune, and Paula Gutlove, Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Management Practice at the Simmons College School of Management, will … Read This Post

Business Negotiations and the Return of the LBO

| | Business Negotiations

Computer giant Dell’s potential $23 billion leveraged buyout could mark the beginning of a new era of sky-high-priced acquisitions, writes Matt Wirz in the Wall Street Journal. … Read Business Negotiations and the Return of the LBO

Laughing Matters

| | Conflict Resolution

You don’t have to be serious to be a serious negotiator. Humor, deftly used, can be a positive factor in promoting agreement.

That’s what Finnish researcher Taina Vuorela … Read Laughing Matters

When You Should Put Pen to Paper

| | Negotiation Skills

Managers often are surprised to learn that deals don’t need to be written down to be legally binding. As a matter of contract law, all that’s needed … Read When You Should Put Pen to Paper

Keeping the Game Out of Court

| | Business Negotiations

Sometimes those on opposite sides of a bitter dispute can achieve great gains – if only they can spot the ways in which they are similar.

In 2001, … Read Keeping the Game Out of Court

PON Film Series Event: My Neighbourhood Screening with Julia Bacha, Just Vision

| | International Negotiation, Middle East Negotiation Initiatives, PON Film Series

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School are pleased to present a screening of “My Neighborhood,” … Read This Post

Negotiation Tips: Try Skills-Based Strategies First

| | Negotiation Skills

Before launching a workaround, run through this list of skills-based strategies adopted from Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation by William Ury (Bantam, … Read This Post