Video: Overcoming Obstacles in Negotiation

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Great negotiators utilize multiple strategies for dealing with obstacles and overcoming complications in negotiations. Key tactics include preparing systematically in advance, and focusing relentlessly on the … Read Video: Overcoming Obstacles in Negotiation

Former PON Graduate Research Fellow Featured in the “Boston Globe”

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Sreedhari Desai, a PON Graduate Research Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year, was recently featured in an Op-Ed in the Boston Globe. Desai’s research examines the ways … Read This Post

Announcing the 2011 PON Summer Fellows

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About the PON Summer Fellowship Program:

PON offers fellowship grants to students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University and other Boston-area schools who are doing internships or … Read Announcing the 2011 PON Summer Fellows

Should You Negotiate Sooner or Later?

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Adapted from “Is Time on Your Side?” first published in the Negotiation newsletter, May 2007.

A difficult negotiation looms on the horizon—say, next year’s allocation of resources … Read Should You Negotiate Sooner or Later?

Nonviolent Power in Action: observations from an expert on what happened in Egypt, Tunisia and beyond

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Watch the video of the PON Brown Bag Lunch:
The Dynamics of Nonviolent Power:
Egypt, Tunisia and beyond

with

Hardy Merriman
Senior Advisor at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
Recorded: … Read This Post

Bringing Mediators to the Bargaining Table

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Adapted from “Mediation in Transactional Negotiation,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter, July 2004.

We generally think of mediation as a dispute-resolution device. Federal mediators intervene when collective … Read Bringing Mediators to the Bargaining Table

Get Ready for Team Talks

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Adapted from “Strength in Numbers: Negotiating as a Team,” by Elizabeth A. Mannix (professor, Cornell University), first published in the Negotiation newsletter, May 2005.

The widespread belief … Read Get Ready for Team Talks

Video: PON-sponsored negotiation workshop engages Jewish and Arab students in Tel Aviv

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In March 2011, Professor James Sebenius, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, led a negotiation workshop for Jewish and Arab high school students in … Read This Post

Anchors Away?

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Adapted from “The Enduring Power of Anchors,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter, October 2006.

In the Negotiation newsletter, we have reviewed the anchoring effect—the tendency for negotiators … Read Anchors Away?

How Accountable are Your Negotiators?

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Adapted from “Disappointed by Results? Improve Accountability,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter, January 2009.

How satisfied are you with the outcomes that negotiators in your organization achieve? … Read How Accountable are Your Negotiators?

Learn More from Your Proposals

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Adapted from “Lessons from Abroad: When Culture Affects Negotiating Style,” by Jeanne M. Brett (professor, Northwestern University) and Michele J. Gelfand (professor, University of Maryland), first published … Read Learn More from Your Proposals

2011 Winner of the Roger Fisher/Frank E. A. Sander Student Paper Prize Announced

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Congratulations to Jessica Beess und Chrostin (HLS ’13), the 2011 Fisher/Sander Prize Winner, for her paper “Cross-Border Class Actions and Aggregate Dispute Resolution: Where We Are and … Read This Post