A panel discussion on the recently released book, Peacemakers in Action (Cambridge University Press, 2007), produced by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding and edited by David Little.

Panelists include Susan Hackley, managing director of the Program on Negotiation; Joyce Dubensky, executive vice president of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding; Ivo Markovic, Tanenbaum Peacemaker and … Read More 

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 … Read More 

Dan Shapiro, co-author of Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate, joins Boston’s Fox25 News to discuss how people can most effectively deal with their differences by using the three A’s: appreciation, affiliation and autonomy.

Dan is the founder and director of Harvard’s International Negotiation Intiative, Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and a faculty … Read More 

Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Every day groups engage in debate and reach decisions using Robert’s Rules of Order. Although written with good intent, Robert’s rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule often produces a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns again in the next meeting, in the … Read More 

Click here to listen to the podcast of Ury describing the “Positive No” from his new book with stories of Stephen Spielberg and Hugo Chavez.

Click here to watch the video of Ury discussing his book.

No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in … Read More