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Samsung wants developers to create Android apps for its printers

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Few technology products can be as annoying as printers, but Samsung Electronics is hoping to change that by convincing developers to create applications for its multifunction printers.The apps can be created using the new Smart UX SDK and will run on Samsung’s MultiXpress and ProXpress line of multifunction printers for offices, which are controlled using an integrated Android tablet with a 10.1-inch screen.The company hopes enterprise in-house developers, ISVs, system integrators and resellers will build Android applications for the printers.

An Alternative to Traditional Dispute Resolution Instruction

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Many negotiation and mediation instructors draw from other disciplines for a range of purposes. Insights from social psychology, for instance, can help students understand, explain, or predict certain interpersonal and inter-group dynamics. Ideas from economics and game theory can shed light on various value-creation principles. The performing arts, including improvisational theater, can help negotiation students

International Negotiation Skills: Four Tips for Negotiating in China

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China is a vast, rapidly changing country bursting with economic opportunity for locals and foreigners alike. Since market reforms began in 1979, real GDP growth has averaged 9% annually. It’s no wonder that American entrepreneurs are traveling to China in droves to open plants, hawk cell phones and cars, and create new partnerships – and launch broad-scale international negotiations.

Hostage Negotiation Tips for Business Negotiators

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Upset by a delay in the delivery of one of your products, a longtime buyer threatens to turn to the media unless you meet his extreme demands. Not only is the relationship in jeopardy, but your company’s reputation seems to be as well. What should you do? Turn to some tried and true hostage negotiation

Planning for Peace: Peacebuilding as a Dimension of Human Security

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
Planning for Peace:
Peacebuilding as a Dimension of Human Security
with
Tobi Dress-Germain, J.D.
Mediator & Consultant
Author of the UN development dossier, Designing a Peacebuilding Infrastructure: Taking a Systems Approach to the Prevention of Violent Conflict.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Pound Hall 100
Harvard Law School campus
Free and

Reflections of a Mediator: Preventive Diplomacy in an Age of Conflict

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
Reflections of a Mediator:
Preventive Diplomacy
in an Age of Conflict
with
Dr. Johnston Barkat
Assistant Secretary-General
United Nations Ombudsman and Mediation Services
 
Monday, April 7, 2015
12:15 – 1:30PM
Pound Hall 101
Harvard Law School campus
Free and open to the public.  A non-pizza lunch will be provided.
 
About the Speaker:
Dr. Johnston Barkat is the Assistant Secretary-General heading

Student Opportunity: Harvard International Negotiation Crisis Simulation

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Gleitsman Program for Leadership on Social Change at the Center for Public Leadership, the Harvard Kennedy School Negotiation Project, and the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project are pleased to announce:
Registration Is Now Open for the 1st Annual
Harvard International Negotiation Crisis Simulation
 
Application:
Undergraduates, graduates, and PhD students from

Deciding on Arbitration vs. Mediation? Try Combining Them

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The choice: arbitration vs. mediation. You’re not sure which of two common dispute resolution processes, mediation or arbitration, to use to resolve your conflict. Mediation is appealing because it would allow you to reach a collaborative settlement, but you’re worried it could end in impasse. You know that arbitration would wrap up your dispute conclusively,

Syncsort acquires Williams Data to boost mainframe-Splunk integration

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Syncsort, Inc., one of the most durable independent software vendors, has acquired U.K.-based William Data Systems as part of its campaign to help enterprise mainframe users leverage the power of modern Big Data technologies to make more efficient use of their … Continue reading →

Negotiate for what you need to succeed

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You may be adept at negotiating for your organization, but are you passing up career opportunities back at the office?
One of the more interesting tidbits to emerge from the December 2014 leaks of hacked Sony Pictures data was an e-mail revealing a young actress’s efforts to be paid on the same level as her male

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