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, negotiation 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
- Contingency Contracts in Business Negotiations
- How Principal Agent Theory Works in Business Negotiations: Dealmaking Strategies for Bargaining with Agents
- Business Negotiation Examples: Choose the Best Kind of Auction
- Does Small Talk in Negotiation Offer Big Gains?
- Coming Up with Win-Win Solutions at the Bargaining Table
- Conflict Resolution
- Crisis Negotiations
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- In This Greece Crisis Negotiation, Tough Conditions May Have Affected the Deal
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Crisis Negotiations: After the West Coast Ports Conflict, Damage Remained
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Negotiation Tips: Listening Skills for Dealing with Difficult People
- How to Deal with Difficult Customers
- Managing Difficult Employees, and Those Who Just Seem Difficult
- Negotiation Strategies: Bernie Sanders’ Pragmatic Approach to Negotiating in the Senate
- Examples of Difficult Situations at Work: Consensus and Negotiated Agreements
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- What is Alternative Dispute Resolution?
- Cultural Barriers and Conflict Negotiation Strategies: Apple’s Apology in China
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Techniques: Negotiating Conditions
- Alternative Dispute Resolution In-House: Mediation, Arbitration, or Med-Arb?
- Crisis Negotiation Skills: The Hostage Negotiator’s Drill
- International Negotiation
- International Negotiations and Cognitive Biases in Negotiation
- Cross-Cultural Communication in Business Negotiations
- Diplomatic Negotiations: The Surprising Benefits of Conflict and Teamwork at the Negotiation Table
- Overcoming Cross-Cultural Barriers to a Negotiated Agreement: Negotiation Ethics and International Negotiations
- Dispute Resolution for India and Bangladesh
- Leadership Skills
- Mediation
- Types of Mediation: Choose the Type Best Suited to Your Conflict
- When Lose-Lose is the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)
- Negotiation Examples: Communicate Your Interests Behind the Deal
- Mediation: Negotiating a More Satisfactory Divorce
- Why is Negotiation Important: Mediation in Transactional Negotiations
- Negotiation Skills
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Philanthropic Management: Teach Negotiation for Nonprofits and Community Groups
- Negotiate the Healthcare Industry
- The Moral Quandary: Negotiation Exercises Featuring Ethical Dilemmas
- How Negotiation Role-Play Simulations Can Help You Resolve Environmental Disputes
- The Value of Using Scorable Simulations in Negotiation Training
- Win-Win Negotiations
- Negotiation Examples: Negotiating for a Win Win Coalition at the Bargaining Table
- Videoconferencing: A Win-Win Negotiation Strategy?
- Win-Win Negotiation Strategies for Rebuilding a Relationship
- Win-Lose Negotiation Examples
- Google’s Negotiations with Groupon: How Business Negotiators Can Maximize Value Claiming When Engaging in Integrative Negotiations