PON – Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School - https://www.pon.harvard.edu
Welcome!
The Program on Negotiation welcomes students from all colleges and universities in the Boston area who have an interest in the field of negotiation and conflict management. We invite you to become part of the PON community! This can include coming to our many events, starting with our fall Open House, where you will meet fellow students and faculty and hear about opportunities to get involved. Other events include talks with world leaders, film showings and discussions that illuminate important aspects of conflict, and lunch and seminar talks that highlight negotiation aspects of current events.
Be sure to subscribe to our Student Interest Group email list to receive updates on events, funding and internship opportunities, and job announcements. We also include items in the SIG email that are sent to us from members of our student community.
Check out our grant and fellowship opportunities below. Our Graduate Research Fellows and grant recipients are contributing exciting new research in the field of negotiation.
The Program on Negotiation hosts a wide variety of events throughout the academic year, including conferences, symposia, seminars, lectures, student discussions, book talks, film series events, and more.
Please visit our events page to learn more.
Graduate Research Fellowships
The PON Graduate Research Fellowship provides support for one year of dissertation research for doctoral students. Successful candidate receive a stipend of $26,000, access to PON facilities and Harvard libraries, and the opportunity to make deep connections to the PON community.
Summer Fellowships
PON offers summer fellowship grants to students doing internships or undertaking summer research projects with public, nonprofit, or academic organizations in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution. Summer fellowships for up to $3,500 are open to currently enrolled students who will be returning to school the following semester in the Boston area.
Graduate Student Grants
PON Graduate Student Grants are designed to support cutting-edge research at the graduate level in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution. Grants are awarded for specific research projects in amounts of up to $1,000.
Next Generation Grants
The PON Next Generation Grants support research in negotiation and conflict resolution by non-tenured faculty and doctoral students. Grants are awarded for specific research projects to successful applicants within PON’s inter-university consortium. Doctoral student grants are limited to $5,000. Non-tenured, tenure-track faculty grants are limited to $10,000, of which no more than $5,000 should be for personnel.
PON offers two semester-length courses each year that are open to the public: Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the fall, and Mediation and Conflict Management in the spring. These courses typically include participants from a wide range of disciplines, professional fields, and life experiences. Please visit our PON Seminar page to learn more.
For more information about current negotiation and conflict mediation course offerings, please visit the school’s websites:
Harvard Law School
Harvard Business School
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Heller School, Brandeis University
Simmons College
UMass Boston
Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program
Harvard Negotiators
Harvard Mediation Program
Stephanie Smith – Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School
Please join Stephanie Smith, Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and HLS graduate, to hear about career options in dispute resolution.
Stephanie Smith is a trainer and consultant to business, government and philanthropy on issues involving the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. Prior to Stanford, she … Read More 
Are you interested in negotiation
and conflict resolution?
Meet other Boston-area faculty, individuals and students interested in Alternative Dispute Resolution at PON’s annual Open House! Free food and drinks, and information about ways for students to get involved. Brief presentations at 8:10 pm.
The negotiation social event of the year!
For more info, contact Sarah Woodside at swoodside@law.harvard.edu or … Read More
Join the Program on Negotiation and Deborah Kolb for a workshop on highly effective and strategic negotiation moves that women can use to get what they need to be successful in any leadership role.
Deborah Kolb is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at the Simmons School of Management, co-director of PON’s Program … Read More
Come meet other students who share your interests and learn how to get involved with the Program on Negotiation (an interuniversity consortium of Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Simmons, and other Boston-area schools).
Discussion groups will be formed and we will discuss training and career opportunities for the coming year.
Can’t make it to the mixer, but still want … Read More
PON Open House Special Presentation: Crisis In North Korea – Is It Negotiable?
RealPlayer Recommended (download here)
The Program on Negotiation’s 2003 Open House introduced over 100 interested faculty, students, and community members to the work of PON through a substantive talk on nuclear proliferation and North Korea. In the presentation Crisis in North Korea: Is it … Read More
Howard Raiffa, Director Emeritus of the Program on Negotiation’s Negotiation Roundtable received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Harvard University’s 2002 Commencement Excercises. Raiffa is Harvard University’s Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics Emeritus, and a pioneer in the field of decision analysis. A mathematician by training, Raiffa is an originator of … Read More
Great Negotiator Award
Negotiation and Nonviolent Action
PON Film Series
The Kelman Seminar
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