Samsung Partners Doing Better Than They Realize

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Success is never guaranteed in business, and neither are sales. The sale of products and services will ebb and flow with shifting economic and operating conditions. The constant, though, is that all businesses must strive for profitability and growth, ensuring they have the resources to meet customer expectations and remain ahead of the competition.

Tracking Our Next Digital Steps

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It’s been a bit of a whirlwind since the launch of X. In the last two weeks, I’ve hosted conversations about the promise of experience design in London, Düsseldorf, Oslo, Sydney and Geelong. Somewhere along the Atlantic, I was asked to answer a few questions ahead of my arrival in Geelong for the Pivot Summit ... Read more

On Its Head: Teaching Negotiation in a Flipped Classroom

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After my experience flipping this class, I came away with the following lessons:
1. Negotiation is a very suitable topic for this type of methodology.
2. This approach helps students who are audio and visual learners.
3. The in-class one-on-one time allows instructors to really work with students on specific problems and challenges.
4. Class size may present a
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A musical escape into a world of light and color | Kaki King

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A genre unto herself, Kaki King might just be the next guitar god. She fuses the ancient tradition of working with one's hands with digital technology, projection-mapping imagery onto her guitar in her groundbreaking multimedia work "The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body." Using her guitar's neck like a keyboard, she plays an intricate melody as she takes the audience on a musical journey of light and sound. She calls it "guitar as paintbrush."

Fighting for Peace: Remembering Yitzhak Rabin

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Fighting for Peace:
Remembering Yitzhak Rabin
with
Jonathan Ben Artzi
Grandson of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and
Ronald Heifetz
Founding Director, Center for Public Leadership
King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Monday, November 9
6-7:00 PM
Malkin Penthouse
Harvard Kennedy School
Free and open to the public
About the Event:  Twenty years ago, Israeli Prime Minister and 1993 Nobel Peace Laureate Yitzhak Rabin

Bridging the Religious Divide: Transforming Conflict when Emotions and Religion are at Play

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Harvard International Negotiation Program, and the Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium are pleased to host:
Bridging the Religious Divide: Transforming Conflict when Emotions and Religion are at Play
with
Daniel L. Shapiro
Director, Harvard International Negotiation Program
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital
and
Rev. Septemmy E. Lakawa
Research Associate

A breakthrough new kind of wireless Internet | Harald Haas

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What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't support it? Using off-the-shelf LEDs and solar cells, Harald Haas and his team have pioneered a new technology that transmits data using light, and it may just be the key to bridging the digital divide. Take a look at what the future of the Internet could look like.

Dear Negotiation Coach: Negotiating work assignments with subordinates

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QUESTION
I recently asked one of our firm’s managers, Joseph, to be in charge of developing an important new program. He agreed to take it on and didn’t raise any concerns, but I sensed a lack of enthusiasm during our conversation. This surprised me, as I had assumed that he would feel honored and happily run
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Negotiating in the Shadow of the Law

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Consider the different procedures used to resolve two recent disputes involving sports superstars:
• In January, an Indianapolis Colts equipment manager complained that the New England Patriots had introduced underinflated footballs into their American Football Conference Championship Game to the possible benefit of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. A controversial National Football League (NFL) investigation concluded, based
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