An Exclusivity Period: A Useful Tool for Eliminating the Competition

Imagine you’re competing with multiple parties to secure a coveted resource, such as your dream house, a cool invention, or a talented new hire. How might you stand out from the pack and win the prize? While negotiating its $13.4 billion acquisition of upscale grocer Whole Foods in 2017, online retailer Amazon did so in
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How Small Business Retailers Can Thrive in the New #RetailRelevancy World

It’s no secret that online retailers have had a major impact on the brick-and-mortar retail world, and this has mostly been bad news for the big, traditional retailers that do most of their business in-store. From a consumer standpoint, why go to the mall, a big-box retailer, or even a grocery store, when you can ... Read more

Peace Works; a Book Talk with Ambassador Rick Barton

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, in collaboration with CDA Collaborative, presents:
Peace Works:
America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World
A Book Talk With
Ambassador Rick Barton
 
Friday, May 11, 2018
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Hauser Hall, Room 104
Harvard Law School Campus
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public.
Bring your own lunch. Beverages and dessert will be provided.
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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
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Negotiation and Leadership: Dealing with Difficult People and Problems BR

Negotiation and Leadership
Dealing With Difficult People and Problems
Spring sessions:
April 16–18 | May 14–16 | June 18–20 2018
Fall sessions:
September 24–26 | October 15–17 | December 3–5 2018
Focused one-day sessions
Spring sessions:
April 19, 2018 | May 17, 2018 | June 21, 2018
Fall sessions:
September 27, | October 18, | December 6, 2018
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Traditional Retail Isn’t Really Dead… It’s Evolving

Remember the first time that traditional retail stores were supposed to disappear due to competition from online outlets? Amazon introduced the Kindle, a bunch of bookstores eventually closed, and plenty of pundits envisioned the same thing happening in a host of other retail niches. Take a walk through the downtown of any busy city, and you will ... Read more

Who Wants to Go to War with Iran, Why, and to What End?

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:
Who Wants to Go to War with Iran,
Why, and to What End?
with
Ali Banuazizi
Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Director, the Program in Islamic Civilization & Societies
 
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
4:30 – 6:00 PM
CGIS South, Room S-050
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public.
 
About the

Sustaining Peace: The Role of Ethics, Law, and Policy in Promoting a New International Security Paradigm

The Program on Negotiation and Religions and the Practice of Peace at Harvard Divinity School
are pleased to co-sponsor:
Sustaining Peace:
The Role of Ethics, Law, and Policy
in Promoting a New International Security Paradigm
Part of the Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium
 
Featuring
Benjamin B. Ferencz, JD ’43
Recipient of the Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom 2014,
Former United States

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