leadership skills

Leadership Skills: Negotiating for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

| | Leadership Skills

Black men and women continue to be vastly underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. Those who advance in majority-white organizations encounter both covert and overt bias, … Read This Post

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Register Now for the Online Fall Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Seminar!

| | Teaching Negotiation

This virtual and highly interactive semester-length seminar explores how people negotiate to create value and resolve disputes. 
Designed to improve understanding of negotiation theory and build negotiation skills, … Read This Post

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A Global Leadership Vacuum During the Covid-19 Crisis

| | Leadership Skills

As the coronavirus outbreak in China exploded into an international pandemic, nations have largely struggled to confront Covid-19 in isolation rather than teaming up on global solutions. … Read This Post

Ask a Negotiation Expert: Reaching Across the Divide

| | Conflict Resolution

In our era of political polarization, collaboration and compromise can seem like impossible goals within our governments and our own communities. In his book Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: … Read This Post

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Negotiation in the News: The best—and worst—of distance negotiations

| | Negotiation Skills

Unable to meet in person as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, negotiators are forced to make the best of alternatives to face-to-face talks—with varied results. Here’s … Read This Post

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In Times of Crisis, Collaboration Must Come First

| | Business Negotiations

In the best of times, negotiators thrive by striking a careful balance between cooperation and competition. Collaborating with our counterparts to create new sources of value, and then … Read In Times of Crisis, Collaboration Must Come First

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When deals fall apart

| | Dispute Resolution

For investors and employees of office-space company WeWork, the April 1 news was no joke: Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, WeWork’s dominant shareholder, was reneging on an agreement to … Read When deals fall apart

AI, Technology, and Negotiation Conference

Check Out Videos from the PON Working Conference on AI, Technology, and Negotiation

| | Pedagogy at PON, Teaching Negotiation

PON Working Conference on AI, Technology, and Negotiation
On May 17th and 18th, 2020 the Program on Negotiation (PON) hosted a virtual working conference on AI, technology, and … Read This Post

collaborative leadership

The Value of Collaborative Leadership During Crises

| | Leadership Skills

The United States and South Korea were both hit hard by the coronavirus. Yet while South Korea swiftly limited the virus’s impact, infection and death rates have … Read This Post

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Responsible Leadership in Times of Crisis

| | Leadership Skills

We often think of responsible leadership in terms of how decision makers help steward their organization and its employees through challenging times. But as is becoming increasingly … Read Responsible Leadership in Times of Crisis

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Negotiation Skills: Reducing Political Polarization

| | Negotiation Skills

Excerpted from the June issue of the Negotiation Briefings newsletter, a publication of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

In our era of political polarization, … Read This Post

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Staying Adaptive through Crisis

| | Teaching Negotiation

How do we stay adaptive through challenging times?
It is common and understandable to feel deflated at a time of crisis. But in these difficult situations, it can … Read Staying Adaptive through Crisis