Due to the anchoring heuristic, the first offer in a negotiation has a strong influence on the final outcome. Negotiation research suggests how to craft your first offer for maximum impact.
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How to Find the ZOPA in Business Negotiations
Learn how ZOPA and BATNA analysis help you avoid the agreement trap and the mythical fixed pie in business negotiation.
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In a Price Negotiation, Should You Make the First Offer?
Imagine yourself in a dilemma that only a privileged few experience: You’ve fallen in love with a dazzling, one-of-a-kind home that’s on the market without a list price. Instead, the seller’s broker encourages you to name your price. You’re unsure how much to offer—yet desperate to win the prize.
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Price Anchoring 101
Learn how price anchoring shapes negotiations, when to make the first offer, and how precise and range anchors can improve your outcomes.
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What is Distributive Negotiation and Five Proven Strategies
Most negotiations call for very different, even opposing, skills: collaboration and competition. To get a great deal, we typically must work with others to find new sources of value while also competing with them to claim as much of that value for ourselves. Before mastering the intricacies of value creation in negotiation, it helps to … Read More
Negotiation Advice: When to Make the First Offer in Negotiation
When or when not to make the first offer in negotiations is a question many expert negotiators ask themselves when approaching business negotiations, real estate transactions, or even interpersonal negotiations with friends and family. In this article drawn from negotiation research, we offer negotiating skills and negotiation tips for when, and when not, to make … Read More
When to Make the First Offer in Negotiations
The question of when to make the first offer in negotiations is more complex than it might seem at first glance. Careful analysis is needed to determine whether to “anchor” first.
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Value Claiming in Negotiation
In most negotiations, we face two goals: claiming value and creating value. Value can be defined as anything you would like to get out a negotiation, whether it be more dollars, a consulting contract, a new rug, an end to conflict, and so on.
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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. Especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has been embedded in many parts of our everyday lives. Technology can also be a source of disruption and is at the root of many disputes. Parties … Read More
Dear Negotiation Coach: Coping with a Change-of-Control Provision
We recently received a question regarding a change-of-control provision and how to move forward with potentially renegotiating a contract. We spoke with Faculty Chair, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Guhan Subramanian, to answer the question.
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What Is Distributive Negotiation?
What is distributive negotiation? Distributive negotiation involves haggling over a fixed amount of value—that is, slicing up the pie. In a distributive negotiation, there is likely only one issue at stake, typically price. When you are negotiating with a merchant in a foreign bazaar, or over a used car closer to home, you are generally … Read What Is Distributive Negotiation?
New Negotiation Books Offer In-Depth Solutions to Practical Challenges
Recent negotiation books can help you navigate a variety of pressing challenges. The books offer advice on bouncing back from failure, de-biasing your workplace, and adapting to our ever-changing world.
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What Can Business Negotiators Learn from Principal Agent Theory?
Learn how to navigate the principal-agent relationship with these insights from negotiation research.
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Negotiation and Leadership
NEGOTIATION MASTER CLASS
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BATNA
- Business Negotiations
- Conflict Resolution
- Negotiating Moral Conflicts: Get Past “Us” Versus “Them”
- Interpersonal Conflict Resolution: Beyond Conflict Avoidance
- How to Deal with Threats: 4 Negotiation Tips for Managing Conflict at the Bargaining Table
- The Pitfalls of Negotiations Over Email
- Case Study of Conflict Management: To Resolve Disputes and Manage Conflicts, Assume a Neutral 3rd Party Role
- Crisis Negotiations
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Crisis Negotiation Lessons: The U.S.-Russia Prisoner Swap
- Crisis Negotiation Skills: The Hostage Negotiator’s Drill
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- International Negotiation
- Leadership Skills
- Mediation
- What Makes a Good Mediator?
- How Mediation Works When Both Parties Agree They Need Help Resolving the Dispute
- How Mediation Can Help Resolve Pro Sports Disputes
- Alternative Dispute Resolution: Values-Based Role Play Simulations for Improving Mediation Skills
- Types of Mediation: Choose the Type Best Suited to Your Conflict
- Negotiation Skills
- Essential Negotiation Skills: Limiting Cognitive Bias in Negotiation
- The Role of Threats in Negotiation: Lessons from the 1981 Air Traffic Controllers Strike
- Negotiation Skills: How to Become a Negotiation Master
- Making Concessions in Negotiation: Lessons from Capitol Hill
- Persuasion in Negotiation: How Tracy Chapman Was Convinced to Play at the 2024 Grammys
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Win-Win Negotiations
- Win-Lose Negotiation Examples
- Streaming Toward Win-Win Negotiation: Spotify Upgrades Its Negotiating Strategy
- Win-Win Negotiation: How to Keep Your Bargaining Partner Satisfied
- Dear Negotiation Coach: What is the Secret to Negotiating with Kids Successfully?
- For NFL Players, a Win-Win Negotiation Contract Only in Retrospect?
Negotiation and Leadership
NEGOTIATION MASTER CLASS
Negotiation Essentials Online
Beyond the Back Table: Working with People and Organizations to Get to Yes
Articles & Insights
- BATNA
- Business Negotiations
- Conflict Resolution
- Negotiating Moral Conflicts: Get Past “Us” Versus “Them”
- Interpersonal Conflict Resolution: Beyond Conflict Avoidance
- How to Deal with Threats: 4 Negotiation Tips for Managing Conflict at the Bargaining Table
- The Pitfalls of Negotiations Over Email
- Case Study of Conflict Management: To Resolve Disputes and Manage Conflicts, Assume a Neutral 3rd Party Role
- Crisis Negotiations
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Crisis Negotiation Lessons: The U.S.-Russia Prisoner Swap
- Crisis Negotiation Skills: The Hostage Negotiator’s Drill
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- International Negotiation
- Leadership Skills
- Mediation
- What Makes a Good Mediator?
- How Mediation Works When Both Parties Agree They Need Help Resolving the Dispute
- How Mediation Can Help Resolve Pro Sports Disputes
- Alternative Dispute Resolution: Values-Based Role Play Simulations for Improving Mediation Skills
- Types of Mediation: Choose the Type Best Suited to Your Conflict
- Negotiation Skills
- Essential Negotiation Skills: Limiting Cognitive Bias in Negotiation
- The Role of Threats in Negotiation: Lessons from the 1981 Air Traffic Controllers Strike
- Negotiation Skills: How to Become a Negotiation Master
- Making Concessions in Negotiation: Lessons from Capitol Hill
- Persuasion in Negotiation: How Tracy Chapman Was Convinced to Play at the 2024 Grammys
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Win-Win Negotiations
- Win-Lose Negotiation Examples
- Streaming Toward Win-Win Negotiation: Spotify Upgrades Its Negotiating Strategy
- Win-Win Negotiation: How to Keep Your Bargaining Partner Satisfied
- Dear Negotiation Coach: What is the Secret to Negotiating with Kids Successfully?
- For NFL Players, a Win-Win Negotiation Contract Only in Retrospect?
