Why Busy People Like Drafts

| | Negotiation Skills

How can you gain an edge when you’re in the seemingly weak position of negotiating a favor from a government or powerful bureaucracy? Present the other side … Read Why Busy People Like Drafts

Water Diplomacy: Creating Value and Building Trust in Transboundary Water Negotiations – Israel and Jordan, From War to Water Sharing

| | Conflict Resolution

Most difficulties in water negotiations are due to rigid assumptions about how water must be allocated. When countries (or states) share boundary waters, the presumption is that … Read This Post

Covering Conflict: War, Storytelling and the Impact of Witnessing Violence

| | International Negotiation, Student Events, The Kelman Seminar

Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly and Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk, Medical Director of the Boston Trauma Center, will discuss the emotional toll of war, how trauma … Read This Post

Debating Body Language: U.S. Presidential Candidate’s Unspoken Messages

| | Negotiation Skills

How important is body language to how you are perceived?

How about when you are debating national policy in front of millions of television viewers? … Read This Post

Mediation, Arbitration, and the Promise of Privacy

| | Mediation

Negotiators often choose to resolve their conflicts through mediation, arbitration, and other alternative dispute resolution methods because of the privacy these methods promise. Unlike the public nature … Read This Post

Business Negotiations: Cooperate to Claim Value

| | Business Negotiations

What happens in negotiations between two individuals who care little about each other’s outcomes? Suppose an engineer and an industrial designer are arguing over the design of … Read Business Negotiations: Cooperate to Claim Value

Thirteen Days in the Age of Nuclear Threat: Negotiation Lessons for Peaceful Coexistence

| | Events, International Negotiation, Student Events

In recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis,
PON is pleased to present
Thirteen Days in the Age of Nuclear Threat: Negotiation Lessons for Peaceful Coexistence
with
Bruce … Read This Post

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 Try Skills-Based Strategies First

A Value-Creation Checklist: Five Helpful Tips

| | Negotiation Skills

By following these tips in your next negotiation, you’ll improve the chances of meeting everyone’s interests. … Read A Value-Creation Checklist: Five Helpful Tips

Robert Mnookin Honored by International Academy of Mediators with Lifetime Achievement Award

| | Mediation

Program on Negotiation Chair Robert Mnookin was honored by the International Academy of Mediators with a lifetime achievement award during the organization’s fall 2012 conference in Cambridge, … Read This Post

In Deal Making, Broaden Your Focus

| | Business Negotiations

Imagine that you are in charge of renting a new location for a branch of your company in a nearby city. After researching the reputations of a … Read In Deal Making, Broaden Your Focus

Childhood Memories and Morality: Do Memories Lead You to Behave More Ethically?

| | Negotiation Skills

Experiments conducted by Program on Negotiation faculty member Francesca Gino and her colleague Sreedhan Desai suggest that remembering childhood memories may cause a person to behave in … Read This Post