PON Faculty Members Jeswald Salacuse, Deborah Kolb, and William Ury Honored on Time’s List of the Five Best Negotiation Books of 2015

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Program on Negotiation faculty members Jeswald Salacuse, Deborah Kolb, and William Ury were named by Time magazine as the authors of three of the five best negotiation books of 2015.
Jeswald Salacuse’s latest work, The Global Negotiator: Making, Managing and Mending Deals Around the World in the Twenty-First Century, describes the negotiation skills people need to succeed

Don’t Kill Your LinkedIn Credibility by Making This Blogging Mistake

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Don’t Kill Your LinkedIn Credibility by Making This Blogging Mistake
I recently received an interesting email from a newsletter subscriber who asked about the appropriate way to use LinkedIn’s publishing platform. This person revealed to me that he posted frequently to LinkedIn, but that most of his posts were articles written by someone else — he was just curating and sharing that content. In his mind, he wasn’t plagiarizing the original author’s work because he was giving that person credit, typically by inserting their byline directly under his headline.

Pamela Ronald: The case for engineering our food

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Pamela Ronald studies the genes that make plants more resistant to disease and stress. In an eye-opening talk, she describes her decade-long quest to help create a variety of rice that can survive prolonged flooding. She shows how the genetic improvement of seeds saved the Hawaiian papaya crop in the 1950s — and makes the case that it may simply be the most effective way to enhance food security for our planet’s growing population.

Alice Goffman: How where you live can determine your path to college — or prison

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In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, “Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?”

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