Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School welcomes students from across the Boston area who are interested in negotiation, mediation, and conflict management. Advancing issues of negotiation is central to our mission of helping individuals become more effective leaders. That’s why we offer students access to expert insights, internship opportunities, funding for research, and more.
EXPLORE OUR STUDENT RESOURCES
INSIGHTS FROM WORLD-RENOWNED EXPERTS
We host various events throughout the year, including conversations with world leaders, film series, book discussions, and seminars on current negotiation and mediation tactics employed around the globe. For details about upcoming events, click here.
FUNDING FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH
PON provides fellowship and grant opportunities to help qualified individuals pursue academic research and projects in the field of negotiation.
Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate Research Fellowships are designed to encourage young scholars from the social sciences and professional disciplines to pursue theoretical, empirical, and/or applied research in negotiation and dispute resolution. Each fellow receives a $42,000 stipend for one year of dissertation research and writing in negotiation and related topics in alternative dispute resolution. The fellowship also provides full access to PON facilities and Harvard libraries.
For list of past awardees and application process, click here.
Summer Fellowships
Summer fellowship grants focus on the connection between scholarship and practice in negotiation and dispute resolution by supporting students interested in exploring career paths, either professional or academic. Summer fellowships provide students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University, and other Boston-area schools with up to $3,500 for internships or summer research projects in negotiation and dispute resolution in partnership with public, nonprofit, or academic organizations..
For list of past awardees and application process, click here.
Next Generation Grants
Next Generation Grants support research in negotiation and conflict resolution by nontenured faculty and doctoral students. Faculty and students from any school or department within PON’s interuniversity consortium (Harvard, MIT, Tufts) may apply. Postdoctoral students with formal affiliations to Harvard or one of our consortium schools are also welcome to apply. Doctoral student grants are limited to $5,000; nontenured, tenure-track faculty grants are limited to $10,000.
For list of past awardees and application process, click here.
Graduate Student Grants
Our Student Grants program supports cutting-edge research projects in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution at the graduate level. Grants are awarded for specific research projects in amounts of up to $1,000. Students from any Boston-area school may apply.
For list of past awardees and application process, click here.
COURSES
Harvard Law School Negotiation and Mediation Programs
Harvard Law School offers a number of negotiation and mediation opportunities in addition to the offerings at PON:
Coexistence: The Arts of Building Peace
BRANDEIS PEACE, CONFLICT, AND COEXISTENCE STUDIES
Spring 2015
Tuesday 2:00-4:50 pm
Instructor:
Cynthia Cohen
781-736-2133
How can music, theatre, poetry, literature, and visual arts contribute to community development, coexistence, and non-violent social change? In the aftermath of violence, how can artists help communities reconcile? Students explore these questions through interviews, case studies, and projects. (Fall: Tuesday … Read Coexistence: The Arts of Building Peace 
Managing Diversity
BOSTON COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (MB 137)
Not currently offered
Instructor:
Judith Clair
Organizational Studies Department
Fulton 433
617-552-0451
This course explores the topic of multicultural diversity and differences in organizations. The course will provide students with opportunities to expand their knowledge about diversity within the context of organizations. It will also provide them with opportunities to learn about how … Read Managing Diversity
Skills and Methods of Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (HPM 278-1)
SPRING 2013
Instructors:
Leonard J. Marcus
Barry C. Dorn
Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
677 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
617-496-0867
This course builds upon the basic Skills and Methods course, providing students the opportunity to more deeply explore the concepts and techniques of negotiation … Learn More About This Program
Negotiation and Conflict Management (GSM 470)
Simmons College Graduate School of Management
FALL 2012
Instructor:
Deborah Kolb
617-521-3871
While negotiation has traditionally been associated with dealings over resources, it is now clear that the skills are more broadly applicable to getting work done in teams, in complex organizations, and in partnerships and alliances. Like more traditional negotiation courses, this gives students … Read Negotiation and Conflict Management
Negotiation (MCM 424)
Simmons College
FALL 2012
Instructor:
Edward T. Vieira, Jr.
617-521-2833
This course emphasizes negotiation skills within organizations and with customers, clients, and stakeholders across organizations. It provides a structured means to analyze negotiation and a set of tools to improve negotiation skills. … Read Negotiation
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution
HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SCHOOL (MGMT E-4225)
SPRING 2013
Instructor:
Vivek Inder Marya
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of negotiation and organizational conflict resolution. Starting with a discussion of the meaning of negotiation, it includes a discussion of different types of negotiation strategies and emphasizes the significance of an integrative, collaborative, win-win … Learn More About This Program
OFFERED JANUARY SESSION WINTER 2013
MGMT E-4220 Negotiation Skills: Strategies for Increased Effectiveness (23328)
Instructor: Diana Buttu, MBA, Research Fellow in the Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
This course is designed for students who wish to manage negotiations … Learn More About This Program
Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value (1816)
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
WINTER 2013
Instructors:
Ian Larkin
617-495-6884
Brian Hall
617-495-5062
Andrew Wasynczuk
617-495-8043
This course is about how to become a better value creator. Managers and negotiators create value by influencing (e.g. persuasion skills) and motivating (e.g. incentive systems) the behavior and decisions of others. This course provides a powerful framework (and set of practical … Read Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value
Advanced Negotiation
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
WINTER Half course (not offered 2013)
Instructor:
James Sebenius
617-495-9334
This half-course is designed for those students who expect to analyze and participate in challenging business, financial, and international negotiations, sometimes with a public-private aspect. It builds on the “3D negotiation” framework developed in the required first-year course, and develops significantly more advanced negotiation concepts and … Read Advanced Negotiation
Negotiations
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (GSM OB 853)
FALL 2014
Monday and Wednesday 9:30-11:00am
Monday 6:00-9:00pm
SPRING 2015
Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-11:00am
Monday 6:00-9:00pm
Tuesday and Thursday:12:30-3:30pm
SPRING 2015
Intensive Course meets 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/12, and 1/13
8:30am-4:30pm
Instructors:
Moshe Cohen
Department of Organizational Behavior
617-353-4405
Diane Levin
781-631-3990
This course uses the theory and research on effective negotiating strategies to build students’ understanding of, and skills for, managing differences and negotiation situations. The … Read Negotiations
