“Northern Ireland Peace Process: What Then, What Now, What Next?”

| | Conflict Resolution

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Program on Negotiation
Present
The Right Honorable Shaun Woodward,MP
Secretary of State … Read This Post

Seeing the Middle East in a New Way: Films from the Abraham Path with William Ury

| | Conflict Resolution, Daily, Dispute Resolution, Events, International Negotiation, PON Film Series

presents:

Seeing the Middle East in a New Way: Films from the Abraham Path

with William Ury

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
7:00PM
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall
Harvard Law School Campus
Join the Program on … Read This Post

Making the first move

| | Daily, Negotiation Skills

Adapted from “Should You Make the First Offer?” by Adam D. Galinsky (Professor, Northwestern University). First published in Negotiation Newsletter.
Whether negotiators are bidding on a firm, … Read Making the first move

Why We Misjudge What’s Fair

| | Business Negotiations

Researchers Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for their partnership in the discovery of insulin. After receiving the prize, … Read Why We Misjudge What’s Fair

What Makes Negotiators Happy?

| | Business Negotiations

The question above may seem silly. Getting more of what we care about seems the obvious answer. Yet negotiators often don’t know how to accurately assess a … Read What Makes Negotiators Happy?

The Role of Track I actors in Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq

| | Conflict Resolution, Daily, Events, International Negotiation, The Kelman Seminar

“The Role of Track I actors in Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq”

with

Eileen Babbitt

Date: December 8, 2009
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, … Read This Post

PON saddened by the death of artist and Great Negotiator, Jeanne-Claude

| | Daily, Events, Great Negotiator Award, Negotiation Skills, News

“The Program on Negotiation is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jeanne-Claude, half of the dynamic and brilliant artistic partnership of Christo and Jeanne-Claude,” commented … Read This Post

Friends of Negotiation Journal Gather to Celebrate its 25th Anniversary

| | Daily

Friends of Negotiation Journal – current and former editors, advisory board members, frequent authors and reviewers, and Program on Negotiation stalwarts who were there at its founding … Read This Post

Is Your Agent Faulty?

| | Business Negotiations

Top executive pay attorney Joseph Bachelder was representing a client who’d just been chosen as a company’s next CEO. After a first session with the board’s representative … Read Is Your Agent Faulty?

Why Repressing Emotions is Bad for Business

| | Business Negotiations

This month’s Harvard Business Review features an article by Daniel Shapiro, an Associate at the Harvard Negotiation Project. Shapiro’s article focuses on repressing emotions and its … Read Why Repressing Emotions is Bad for Business

The upside of threats

| | Conflict Resolution

Negotiation researchers have long studied how to use “carrots”-promises of mutual gains-to induce agreement. Less attention has been given to “sticks,” specifically, the effectiveness of threats.

Threats often … Read The upside of threats

Negotiating Without Conditions

| | Conflict Resolution

Adapted from “Without Conditions:  The Case for Negotiating With the Enemy” by Deepak Malhotra. is Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a co-author of Negotiation … Read Negotiating Without Conditions