Sreedhari Desai Featured on Harvard Business School Website

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Sreedhari Desai, the PON 2009-2010 Graduate Research Fellow was featured on the Harvard Business School website this week discussing her paper “When Executives Rake in Millions: Meanness … Read This Post

Multiparty Negotiation wins IACM Outstanding Book Award

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Multiparty Negotiation by Lawrence Susskind and Larry Crump (2008) won the International Association for Conflict Management’s 2008-2009 Outstanding Book Award at the 23rd annual IACM Conference last … Read This Post

When Emotions Converge

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Adapted from “I Know Exactly How You Feel,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Theorists have long distinguished one-shot deals from repeated negotiations. People who know they’ll never … Read When Emotions Converge

Expand the Pie with Matching Rights

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Adapted from “Create Value with Matching Rights,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

The problem: You and your counterpart have different ideas about how much freedom you should … Read Expand the Pie with Matching Rights

The Power of Vivid Data

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Adapted from “What’s Really Relevant? The Role of Vivid Data in Negotiation,” by Max H. Bazerman (professor, Harvard Business School), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Students at … Read The Power of Vivid Data

Sreedhari Desai wins IACM Graduate Scholarship

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Ms. Sreedhari Desai, the PON 2009-2010 Graduate Research Fellow, received the International Association for Conflict Management’s Graduate Scholarship award for two of her papers. The first, “Some … Read Sreedhari Desai wins IACM Graduate Scholarship

International Association for Conflict Management’s 23rd Annual Conference

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In collaboration with the Program on Negotiation and other cosponsors,  the 23rd annual International Association for Conflict Management conference will be held in Boston July 24-27. The … Read This Post

When peace breaks out

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Adapted from “Framing a Negotiation to Foster Cooperation,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Sometimes in negotiation, against all apparent odds, peace breaks out. Union leaders and management … Read When peace breaks out

Questioning threats

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Adapted from “How to Defuse Threats at the Bargaining Table,” by Katie A. Liljenquist (professor, Brigham Young University) and Adam D. Galinsky (professor, Northwestern University), first published … Read Questioning threats

The negotiating QB

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Adapted from “The Brett Favre Trade: A Win-win Deal in a Win-lose Game,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

In the middle of the National Football League’s off-season, … Read The negotiating QB

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Opening students up to negotiation

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Working It Out is a 27-page handbook designed to introduce high school students to problem-solving, interest-based negotiation. Written by Getting to YES co-author Roger Fisher and Difficult … Read Opening students up to negotiation

Cross-cultural negotiations

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Culture-along with many other variables-often affects international negotiations. The book Culture and Negotiation focuses on the distinctive impact of culture, both in creating unexpected opportunities for dispute … Read Cross-cultural negotiations