Kelman Seminar: “Connecting with the Enemy: A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence”

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The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:
Connecting with the Enemy: A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence
with
Shelia Katz
Professor of Middle East History and Contemplative Studies
Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
 
Monday, March 20, 2017
4:00 – 5:30 PM
CGIS South
Belfer Case Study Room, S-020
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
About the speakers:
Shelia Katz is author of Connecting

New Findings in the Field of Negotiation: Liliia Khasanova and Taylor Moulton

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
New Findings in the Field of Negotiation:
Research from the PON Graduate Research Fellows
with
Liliia Khasanova
Ph.D. Candidate, International Law
Kazan Federal University, Russia
and
Taylor Moulton
PhD Candidate, Management
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Hauser Hall 104
Harvard Law School
Free and open to the public.

I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left | Megan Phelps-Roper

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What's it like to grow up within a group of people who exult in demonizing ... everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper shares details of life inside America's most controversial church and describes how conversations on Twitter were key to her decision to leave it. In this extraordinary talk, she shares her personal experience of extreme polarization, along with some sharp ways we can learn to successfully engage across ideological lines.

Do You Know How Much Business You Have Behind You?

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Do You Know How Much Business You Have Behind You?
By Richard Libin, President, Automotive Profit Builders and author of “Who Stopped the Sale?” and “Who Knew?”
APB.cc, rlibin@apb.cc
 
It’s common knowledge. Every business leaves potential sales behind. These are opportunities that are never closed and that never make it to the bottom line. The examples are everywhere, like this one in the automotive industry. 

Try a Contingent Contract if You Can’t Agree on What Will Happen

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In negotiation, all the goodwill, trust, and cooperation you create can seem useless if you and your negotiating counterpart disagree about how future events may play out. In such cases, a contingent contract can be a highly useful, though widely overlooked, tool for creating value in negotiation.
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Customer-First Marketing: The argument for sending your customers non-transactional emails in two case studies

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While sending ‘ask’ emails might be a basis of your email marketing efforts, it’s important to remember that value is what keeps people engaged. By offering your customers valuable content without asking them for anything, they’ll trust that you’re truly putting them first.

The Five Second Rule

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Thoughts are things. As true as the law of gravity, this is one of the fundamental laws in the universe. Whatever you believe with feeling, you bring into your life. 
And like gravity, you don’t have to believe in it for it to always be working in your life. Take gravity for example. If you were to step off a ten-story building, the law of gravity would take over and you would fall ten stories to the ground. Again, whether you believed in gravity or not. 

Stories from a home for terminally ill children | Kathy Hull

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To honor and celebrate young lives cut short, Kathy Hull founded first freestanding pediatric palliative care facility in the United States, the George Mark Children's House. Its mission: to give terminally ill children and their families a peaceful place to say goodbye. She shares stories brimming with wisdom, joy, imagination and heartbreaking loss.

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