PON – Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School - https://www.pon.harvard.edu
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.
Sign up to receive our Student Interest Group email for details on upcoming events, funding, internship, and employment opportunities.
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.
Grant and Fellowship Application Due Dates:
PON Summer Fellowship Grant – March 7, 2025
PON Graduate Student Grant – April 1, 2025
PON Next Generation Grant – April 8, 2025
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 $35,000 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.
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:
Please join Professor Jennifer Brown for a talk about her research on sexual orientation and the law, and her career path in alternative dispute resolution (ADR). … Learn More About This Program 
Lawrence Susskind, Director of MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT.
Professor Lawrence Susskind, a co-founder of PON, is currently Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, Director of the Environmental Policy and Planning Group at MIT, and Director of the Consensus Building Institute, a not-for-profit that provides environmental … Learn More About This Program
Join us as the 2007 PON Summer Fellows discuss their negotiation and conflict resolution related research and internships.
This is an especially valuable opportunity to learn more about the fellowship program if you are considering applying for a 2008 PON Summer Fellowship.
12:00 – 12:20pm, Scott Paltrowitz: International Rescue Committee, Thai-Burmese border, Thailand
12:20 – 12:40pm, Gu Yoon … Learn More About This Program
Robert Bordone, Director Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program and
HLS Thaddeus R. Beal Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Please join Professor Robert Bordone for the first chat of the 2007-2008 series. The PON Fireside Chats provide a venue where PON faculty share their experiences of entering and working in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution, … Learn More About This Program
Three PON-affiliated faculty were presented with teaching awards by the graduating class at their respective schools. The award-recipients were selected by the graduating class.
Harvard Law School (HLS) Assistant Clinical Professor Robert Bordone was this year’s winner of the prestigious Sacks-Freund Teaching Award. The award was presented at Class Day exercises by the graduating class in … Read PON-Affiliated Faculty Receive Teaching Awards
Business leader Bruce Wasserstein was the 2007 recipient of the Great Negotiator Award given by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. As a graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, he has helped arrange more than a thousand transactions worth hundreds of billions of dollars and is currently the Chairman and … Learn More About This Program
The PON Student Interest Group (SIG) Fireside Chat with
Professor Max Bazerman
Harvard Business School and
Member, PON Executive Committee
Thursday, March 15, 2007
4:00 – 5:30 P.M.
Pound Hall 513 (PON Offices), Harvard Law School
(click for map)
Please join Professor Max Bazerman for the third PON Fireside Chat, a new series that provides students with an opportunity to meet cutting-edge negotiation … Learn More About This Program
Professor Guhan Subramanian, Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business, Harvard Law School
Acting Co-Chair, PON Executive Committee
Please join Professor Guhan Subramanian for the second PON Fireside Chat, a new series that provides students with an opportunity to meet cutting-edge negotiation faculty. Professor Subramanian will discuss his experiences in the field of dispute resolution, and his … Learn More About This Program
Kick off the holiday season with PON’s Student Interest Group and faculty, including:
Robert Bordone, Harvard Law School
Florrie Darwin, Harvard Law School
Mari Fitzduff, Brandeis University
Deborah Kolb, Simmons School of Management
Deepak Malhotra, Harvard Business School
Lawrence Susskind, MIT
…and others!
Meet and mingle with students interested in negotiation and conflict resolution from Boston-area universities, learn more about faculty research and … Read PON Faculty and Student Holiday Wine and Cheese
Do you want to be an Ambassador for a day, learn to negotiate in an international multilateral diplomatic conference setting with more than 30 countries, and experience behind-the-scenes crisis decision-making processes and coalition-building between EU and NATO countries?
Are you willing to test your leadership skills by managing the stresses of an international crisis, late-breaking events, … Read Bubbly Island
Negotiation and Nonviolent Action
PON Film Series
The Kelman Seminar
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