The following question regarding the anchoring effect was asked of Program on Negotiation faculty member and Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School professor Guhan Subramanian.
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6 Bargaining Tips and BATNA Essentials
The best bargaining tips taught by the experts should offer ways to enhance your bargaining power in negotiation. To do this, you must cultivate a strong BATNA, or best alternative to a negotiated agreement. The more appealing your best alternative is, the more comfortable you will feel asking for more in your current negotiation—secure in … Read More
How to Negotiate Salary: 3 Winning Strategies
The question of how to negotiate salary seems to preoccupy negotiators more than any other—and with good reason, considering how dramatically even a small salary increase can impact our lifetime earnings. The following three salary bargaining tips from leading negotiation experts will help you gain more from your new-job negotiations.
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3 Negotiation Strategies for Conflict Resolution
When a dispute flares up and conflict resolution is required, the outcome can be sadly predictable: the conflict escalates, with each side blaming the other in increasingly strident terms. The dispute may end up in litigation, and the relationship may be forever damaged.
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How to Resolve Cultural Conflict: Overcoming Cultural Barriers at the Negotiation Table
After recently losing an important deal in India, a business negotiator learned that her counterpart felt as if she had been rushing through the talks. The business negotiator thought she was being efficient with their time. In this useful cross-cultural conflict negotiation example, how should this negotiator improve her negotiation skills?
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Dealmaking: Avoiding Pitfalls in Deal Drafting
Whatever the root causes of faulty drafting, negotiators need to better understand and manage certain aspects of the deal drafting process. Here are three ways to ensure that breakdowns don’t occur on the way from handshake to contract.
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Articles & Insights
- What is BATNA? How to Find Your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement
- Negotiation research you can use: The irrational impact of disappearing BATNAs
- BATNA and Other Sources of Power at the Negotiation Table
- Negotiation Examples: How Crisis Negotiators Use Text Messaging
- Take your BATNA to the Next Level
- Tough Topics in Negotiation: Negotiating a Non-Compete Agreement with Employers
- How to Deal with Threats: 4 Negotiation Tips for Managing Conflict at the Bargaining Table
- Do Attitudes in Negotiation Influence Results?
- The Pitfalls of Negotiations Over Email
- In Real-Life Conflict Scenarios, Promote Constructive Dissent
- Learning from crisis negotiations
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Negotiation in the News: Last Negotiating Moves From A Never-Boring President
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Negotiating with the Enemy
- Negotiation Tactics for Bargaining with Difficult People: The Comcast Merger
- Ethics in Negotiations: How to Deal with Deception at the Bargaining Table
- Managing Difficult Conversations: Achieving Objectives with Backmapping Negotiation Strategies
- When Dealing with Difficult People, Try a Complementary Approach
- Negotiations, Gender, and Status at the Bargaining Table
- How to Negotiate in Cross-Cultural Situations
- Organizational Leadership: Negotiating Buy-In to Your Cause
- Leadership Styles in Negotiation: The Case of Ebay and Paypal
- Leadership Skills in Negotiation: How to Negotiate Equity Incentives with Senior Management
- The Mediation Process and Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Training: Mediation Curriculum
- Types of Mediation: Choose the Type Best Suited to Your Conflict
- Why is Negotiation Important: Mediation in Transactional Negotiations
- Mediation Process and Business Negotiations: How Does Mediation Work in a Lawsuit?
- Reservation Point in Negotiation: Reach Negotiated Agreements by Asking the Right Questions
- Dear Negotiation Coach: Can Negotiation Theory Help Us Understand Our Religious Identity?
- Understanding Different Negotiation Styles
- Emotional Triggers: How Emotions Affect Your Negotiating Ability
- Creating Value in Integrative Negotiations: Myth of the Fixed-Pie of Resources
- Teaching Mediation: Exercises to Help Students Acquire Mediation Skills
- Check Out the International Investor-State Arbitration Video Course
- New Simulation on Bidding in an International Business Negotiation: Euro-Idol
- Learn from the Best with the Great Negotiator Case Studies
- Negotiating Identity and Values-Based Disputes
