A Q&A with Michael Wheeler, author of The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World.
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Negotiating Difficult Conversations: Dealing with Tough Topics Productively
Course Dates: June 2020 – Exact Dates TBD
When negotiations become difficult, emotions often escalate and talks break down. To overcome barriers and turn negotiations from difficult to collaborative, from breakdown to breakthrough, you must learn to understand the inter- and intra-personal dynamics at play. In this program, you will examine how your own assumptions and … Read More
Mariyinsky Palace Negotiations, The
Jason Campbell, with Anika Binnendijk and Andrew Wilson
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International Negotiations: Cross-Cultural Communication Skills for International Business Executives
In this Special Report, we offer expert advice from the ‘Negotiation’ newsletter to help you in international negotiations. You will learn to cope with culture clashes, weigh culture against other important factors, prepare for possible cultural barriers and much more.
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Negotiation Case Study: Sincerity’s Power in Negotiation
Most of us have had the experience of delivering an apology that fell on deaf ears. When apologies fail to achieve their aims, poor delivery is usually to blame. The importance of sincerity in such a situation cannot be overstated, because if the recipient thinks your apology is less than sincere, she is unlikely to … Read More
Rebuilding the World Trade Center Site
Lawrence Susskind
A group of legal, business, and dispute resolution professionals negotiate a six-person, facilitated role simulation regarding the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in New York City, following the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks
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Solutions for Avoiding Intercultural Barriers at the Negotiation Table
Even with a common language and the best of intentions, business negotiators from different cultures face special challenges. Try these solutions for avoiding intercultural barriers when preparing for negotiation between two companies from different cultures:
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Rockwell Quarry
Todd Bryan, Alexandra Mitchell, Hilary Collins, and Sarah Fordyce Bock
Five-party, multi-issue negotiation among elected officials, property owners, and a gravel company over a permit for a gravel quarry in a recreationally valuable canyon
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Dispute Resolution on Facebook: Using a Negotiation Approach to Resolve a Conflict
For several years, Facebook has been working with social scientists to bring traditional methods of dispute resolution to cyberspace. The site has begun to offer users tools to resolve disputes with one another over offensive or upsetting posts, including insults and photos.
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Matter of Arthur Hangtough
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Two-party negotiation between representatives of a company and an employee over the terms of termination and severance pay amid charges of past sexual harassment by the employee
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Teach Your Students to Negotiate the Technology Industry
Technology is a pervasive feature of modern life, providing countless benefits ranging from new cancer treatments to smart phones. Technology can also be a source of disruption and is at the root of many disputes. Parties frequently disagree on the likely costs and benefits associated with the adoption of new technologies. They feud over such … Read More
Gadgets, Inc.
Cheri Peele and Lawrence Susskind
Six-party, four-issue negotiation among a company’s management and union representatives, environmental groups, and state and federal environmental agencies over fines and adoption of new technology in response to the company’s illegal polluting
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Best-In-Class Negotiation Case Studies
What’s one of the best ways to teach the art and science of negotiation? Case studies and articles that spark lively discussion or facilitate self-reflection. Based on real-world examples, these teaching resources are designed to help students envision how to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom and beyond.
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Four Conflict Negotiation Strategies for Resolving Value-Based Disputes
In many negotiations, both parties are aware of what their interests are, and are willing to engage in a give-and-take process with the other party to come to agreement.
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Redevelopment Negotiation: The Challenges of Rebuilding the World Trade Center
In the wake of the horrific terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, there were difficult questions and challenges facing those who were involved in the redevelopment negotiation. The Teaching Negotiation Resource Center (TNRC) offers a unique case package designed to teach these complex challenges in this … Read More
Negotiation Skills: What’s the Best Process?
This three-step approach to managing process issues in negotiations will reap significant rewards at the bargaining table.
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Managing Faultlines Group Negotiations
Group negotiations are a fact of managerial life, yet the outcomes of teamwork are highly unpredictable. Sometimes groups cohere, reaching novel solutions to nagging problems, and sometimes infighting causes them to collapse. How can you predict when conflict will emerge in groups, and what can you do to stop it?
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Four Obstacles to Learning from Negotiation Simulations
Participants will learn from a simulation only if they buy into the premise of the game. The following are the most common obstacles to a successful interactive negotiation training.
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Great Negotiators vs. Great Negotiations: The Program on Negotiation’s Great Negotiator Teaching Series
Teaching negotiation using case studies focused on the efforts of great negotiators can help achieve several pedagogical goals at the same time. Developed by Professor James Sebenius of Harvard Business School, the Program on Negotiation’s Great Negotiator case study series, available from the PON Clearinghouse, highlights the lessons learned by each recipient of PON’s Great … Read More
Gravel quarry or hiking grounds?
The PON Clearinghouse offers hundreds of role simulations, from two-party, single-issue negotiations to complex multi-party exercises. Rockwell Quarry is a five-party, multi-issue negotiation among elected officials, property owners, and a gravel company over a permit for a gravel quarry in a recreationally valuable canyon.
The Rockwell Quarry Complex Environmental Negotiation is a five-party, multi-issue simulation that … Read More
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- Business Negotiations
- Conflict Resolution
- Crisis Negotiations
- Hostage Negotiation Techniques for Business Negotiators
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Crisis Negotiation Skills: The Hostage Negotiator’s Drill
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Examples of Difficult Situations at Work: Consensus and Negotiated Agreements
- Ethics in Negotiations: How to Deal with Deception at the Bargaining Table
- How to Renegotiate a Bad Deal
- Managing Difficult Employees: Listening to Learn
- Negotiation Tactics for Bargaining with Difficult People: The Comcast Merger
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- Choose the Right Dispute Resolution Process
- Dispute Resolution Strategies for Managing Internal Conflicts in Organizations
- Patience is a Winning Negotiation Skill for Getting What You Want at the Negotiation Table
- Cultural Barriers and Conflict Negotiation Strategies: Apple’s Apology in China
- What is Alternative Dispute Resolution?
- International Negotiation
- Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Negotiations and the Importance of Communication in International Business Deals
- How to Overcome Cross Cultural Barriers in Negotiation
- Negotiation Analysis: The US, Taliban, and the Bergdahl Exchange
- A Crisis Negotiations Case Study: Chen Guangcheng, the United States, China, and Diplomatic Negotiations
- Managing Cultural Differences in Negotiation
- Leadership Skills
- Negotiations, Gender, and Status at the Bargaining Table
- Negotiation Skills and Bargaining Techniques from Female Executives
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Leadership Styles: Uncovering Bias and Generating Mutual Gains
- Challenges Facing Women Negotiators
- How to Negotiate in Cross-Cultural Situations
- Mediation
- Negotiation Skills
- The Importance of Communication in Negotiations: Preparing Your Negotiating Team
- Negotiation Team Strategy
- Expanding the Pie: Integrative versus Distributive Bargaining Negotiation Strategies
- Integrative Negotiation Examples: Making Wise Bets on the Future in Bargaining Scenarios
- A Win Win Negotiation Case Study Using Mind Mapping Negotiation Skills
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Win-Win Negotiations