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 
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Negotiating Difficult Conversations: Dealing with Tough Topics Productively
Course Dates: June 11-15, 2018
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 behaviors can help … Read More
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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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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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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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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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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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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?
Dora Lau of the Chinese University … Read More
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Matter of Arthur Hangtough
JAMS/ Endispute
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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Negotiation Research: Negotiation Skills from the World of Improv for Conflict Management
A Q&A with Michael Wheeler, author of The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World.
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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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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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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
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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.
The Teaching Negotiation Resource Center (TNRC) at … Read More
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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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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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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
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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
- Negotiation Examples in Real Life – Buying a Home and Dealing with Difficult People
- Contract Negotiations and Business Communication: How to Write an Iron-Clad Contract
- Advice for Bargaining Abroad: Tips on How To Overcome Cultural Barriers
- Negotiation Tactics, BATNA and Examples for Creating Value in Business Negotiations
- What is the Right of First Refusal?
- Conflict Resolution
- Crisis Negotiations
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- In This Greece Crisis Negotiation, Tough Conditions May Have Affected the Deal
- Crisis Negotiations: After the West Coast Ports Conflict, Damage Remained
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Ethics in Negotiations: How to Deal with Deception at the Bargaining Table
- Dealing with Difficult People and Negotiation: When Should You Give Up the Fight?
- Negotiation Strategies: Bernie Sanders’ Pragmatic Approach to Negotiating in the Senate
- How to Renegotiate a Bad Deal
- When Dealing with Difficult People, Try a Complementary Approach
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- International Negotiation
- The Importance of Relationship Building in China
- Famous Negotiators: Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin
- Best Negotiators in History: Nelson Mandela and His Negotiation Style
- The Negotiation Process in China
- How to Overcome Cultural Barriers in Communication – Cultural Approximations of Time and the Impact on Negotiations
- Leadership Skills
- Pope Francis and the Benefits of Servant Leadership in Negotiations
- Leadership Styles in Negotiation: The Case of Ebay and Paypal
- Impact of Leadership Styles on Strategic Decisions: Taylor Swift and Apple Music at the Negotiation Table
- Negotiation Skills and Bargaining Techniques from Female Executives
- Bargaining at a Fever Pitch
- Mediation
- Dispute Resolution: The Advantages of a Neutral Third-Party Mediator
- What Makes a Good Mediator?
- Techniques for Leading Multiparty Negotiations: Structuring the Bargaining Process
- How Mediation Works When Both Parties Agree They Need Help Resolving the Dispute
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Training: Mediation Curriculum
- Negotiation Skills
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Win-Win Negotiations
- Win-Win Negotiation Strategies for Rebuilding a Relationship
- 5 Win-Win Negotiation Strategies
- Negotiation Examples: Negotiating for a Win Win Coalition at the Bargaining Table
- How to Use Tradeoffs to Create Value in Your Negotiations
- For NFL Players, a Win-Win Negotiation Contract Only in Retrospect?