You’ve mastered the basics of good negotiation techniques: you prepare thoroughly, take time to build rapport, make the first offer when you have a strong sense of the bargaining range, and search for wise tradeoffs across issues to create value. Now, it’s time to absorb five lesser-known but similarly effective negotiation topics and techniques that … Read More 
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Negotiation Eclectics Essays in Memory of Jeffrey Z. Rubin
In memory of one of the founders of the Program on Negotiation, this collection of essays covers a variety of negotiation topics: culture and negotiation, power dynamics within negotiation, psychological traps, mediation, psychoanalysis and negotiation, and negotiation pedagogy. The distinguished authors, members of many academic disciplines and professional institutions, came together in a conference held … Read More
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Setting Standards in Negotiations
As the starting point from which all commercial transactions occur, from purchasing equipment to setting salaries, negotiatiosn in business is an essential skill no matter what field a negotiator finds herself. Using an objective standard can strengthen your proposal and eliminate emotional bias.
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In Business Negotiations, Dress the Part
Negotiators involved in high-stakes mergers and acquisitions typically come to the table armored in meticulously tailored apparel and designer shoes. But as Dana Mattioli reports in a recent Wall Street Journal negotiation topics in business article, those who are trying to woo business from an apparel company often end up dressing down at the bargaining … Read More
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Six Strategies for Creating Value at the Negotiation Table
In today’s market, consumers are often the more powerful parties in negotiations with sellers.
To claim the most value in your next haggling experience, use the following six negotiation strategies.
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Test Your Negotiation Decision-Making Ability
A negotiation research study using distributive negotiation examples sheds interesting light on decision-making capabilities, intelligence, and “intuition.”
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Business Negotiation: When is an Outsider Needed at the Negotiation Table
One of the most popular negotiation topics in business concerns the role of outsiders to the negotiation. In this article the Program on Negotiation explores how to include outsiders in both your strategy and at-the-table negotiations.
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Negotiation Topics in Business: Make a Bump Plan
Regrouping from the cancellation of the 2004–2005 season due to failed labor negotiations, National Hockey League (NHL) teams and players faced the challenge of radically restructuring their collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in July 2005. The new CBA instituted a uniform cap (as well as a floor) on team payrolls. It also set maximums and minimums … Read More
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Negotiated Agreements: Why You Should Limit Your Options
A process of finding your counterparts interests and reconciling them with your own. But what if you or your counterpart presents a myriad of options and offers at the negotiation table?
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Projecting Power at the Negotiation Table
Projecting power at the negotiation table is one tactic bargainers can employ to obtain their objectives in bargaining scenarios. In this article we examine Amy Cuddy’s research with regards to power, body language, and the impact they have on your negotiating skills and negotiation tactics.
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With Second Book Deal, Amy Schumer Gets the Last Laugh
Dissatisfied with her initial book contract, comedian Amy Schumer used her negotiation skills to bargain for an even better contract. Find out how she did it in this article drawn from examples of negotiation in real life.
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Team Building Negotiation Example: Chinese Women Face a “Sticky Floor”
What challenges do Chinese female negotiators face in negotiations in China? Like their counterparts in the West, female negotiators in China encounter barriers to doing business, but instead of a “glass ceiling,” many female Chinese feel they are rooted to a “sticky floor.”
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- Business Negotiations
- Conflict Resolution
- Crisis Negotiations
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Crisis Negotiation Skills: The Hostage Negotiator’s Drill
- In This Greece Crisis Negotiation, Tough Conditions May Have Affected the Deal
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Negotiation Strategies: Bernie Sanders’ Pragmatic Approach to Negotiating in the Senate
- Managing Difficult Employees: Listening to Learn
- Dealing with Difficult People and Negotiation: When Should You Give Up the Fight?
- Thoughts from Harvard Business School Faculty Member James Sebenius: A Negotiated Solution to the Government Shutdown
- Ethics in Negotiations: How to Deal with Deception at the Bargaining Table
- Dealmaking
- Writing the Negotiated Agreement
- Claiming Value in Negotiation: Do Extreme Requests Backfire?
- MESO Negotiation: The Benefits of Making Multiple Equivalent Simultaneous Offers in Business Negotiations
- How Does Mediation Work in a Lawsuit?
- Case Study of Business Negotiations and Deal Making: Giving Voice to Negotiators Away from the Bargaining Table
- Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Techniques: Negotiating Conditions
- Negotiation Ethics: How to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas at the Bargaining Table
- Cultural Barriers and Conflict Negotiation Strategies: Apple’s Apology in China
- Diagnose Your Negotiation Techniques and Negotiation Style
- 3 Negotiation Strategies for Conflict Resolution
- International Negotiation
- Negotiation Analysis: The US, Taliban, and the Bergdahl Exchange
- Cross Cultural Negotiations in International Business: Four Negotiation Tips for Bargaining in China
- How to Overcome Cross Cultural Barriers in Negotiation
- Famous Negotiators: Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin
- Managing Cultural Differences in Negotiation
- Leadership Skills
- Challenges Facing Women Negotiators
- Negotiation Skills and Bargaining Techniques from Female Executives
- Negotiations, Gender, and Status at the Bargaining Table
- “Getting to Yes” Author Bill Ury on the Government Shutdown
- Leadership Skills in Negotiation: How to Negotiate Equity Incentives with Senior Management
- Mediation
- Alternative Dispute Resolution: Values-Based Role Play Simulations for Improving Mediation Skills
- Arbitration vs Mediation: The Definition of Mediation as a Problem Solving Process
- Negotiations and Logrolling: Discover Opportunities to Generate Mutual Gains
- What is Med-Arb?
- What Makes a Good Mediator?
- Negotiation Skills
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Win-Win Negotiations
- Win-Win Negotiation Skills: Motivate Good Behavior in the #MeToo Era
- 5 Win-Win Negotiation Strategies
- Google’s Negotiations with Groupon: How Business Negotiators Can Maximize Value Claiming When Engaging in Integrative Negotiations
- Win Win Negotiation: Managing Your Counterpart’s Satisfaction
- 4 Negotiation Tactics Robert Kraft Used to End the NFL Lockout