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- December 1983
- Case
Final Offer Negotiation
Lander, Eric S. "Final Offer Negotiation." Harvard Business School Case 184-082, December 1983.
- April 2014
- Article
15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
By: Deepak Malhotra
The author, a professor of negotiation at Harvard Business School, offers specific pieces of advice for job candidates: Don't underestimate the importance of likability. Help prospective employers understand why you deserve what you're requesting. Make it clear that... View Details
Malhotra, Deepak. "15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 4 (April 2014): 117–120.
- April 1995 (Revised June 1995)
- Background Note
Anchoring and First Offers in Negotiation
Describes how first or opening offers can be used effectively in negotiation. Examines how opening offers serve as an anchor, changing one side's perception of the other side's bottom line and hence the set of possible outcomes. View Details
Wu, George. "Anchoring and First Offers in Negotiation." Harvard Business School Background Note 895-070, April 1995. (Revised June 1995.)
- 2012
- Lecture
How to Negotiate a Job Offer
By: Deepak Malhotra
Malhotra, Deepak. "How to Negotiate a Job Offer." Harvard Business School, 2012. (Over 600,000 views on YouTube.)
- December 2013
- Supplement
Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)
This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-028, December 2013.
- December 2013
- Case
Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A)
Isolated by the KGB in Moscow, Harvard graduate student Bruce Allyn faces high-pressure negotiation tactics to recruit him for the Soviet spy agency. At the tense height of the Cold War, with CIA agents systematically being exposed and executed in Russia, Allyn was... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A)." Harvard Business School Case 914-027, December 2013.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Developing Negotiation Case Studies
While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have distinctive aspects that merit explicit treatment. This article offers three types of tailored advice for producing cases on... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Developing Negotiation Case Studies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-008, July 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Stepping Stone, Stopping Point, or Slippery Slope? Negotiating the Next Iran Deal
The November 2013 "interim" nuclear deal between Iran and the "P5+1"—the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany—raises challenging questions. Will the initial deal function as a stepping stone toward a more comprehensive deal? Or will it drift into... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Iran; Nuclear; Conflict Resolution; Winning Coalition; Blocking Coalition; Strategy; Negotiation; International Relations; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia
Sebenius, James K. "Stepping Stone, Stopping Point, or Slippery Slope? Negotiating the Next Iran Deal." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-061, January 2014. (Revised March 2014.)
- December 2015
- Article
Control the Negotiation Before It Begins
By: Deepak Malhotra
Countless books and articles offer advice on avoiding missteps at the bargaining table. But some of the costliest mistakes take place before negotiators sit down to discuss the substance of the deal. That's because they often take for granted that if they bring a lot... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation
Malhotra, Deepak. "Control the Negotiation Before It Begins." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 12 (December 2015): 66–72.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes
By: Petri Hukkanen and Matti Keloharju
Building on recent research in social psychology, this paper analyzes the link between the precision of initial cash offers and M&A outcomes. About one-half of the offers are made at the precision of $1 or $5 per share, and an additional one-third at the precision of... View Details
Hukkanen, Petri, and Matti Keloharju. "Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-058, November 2015.
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
Tactics, deal design, and set-up are three crucial components of the most effective negotiations. Yet many negotiators focus only on the tactical part, running the risk of undermining their own best interests. How can you View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
colleague who had been lured away from a competitor. Park went to bat for her star performers, though management had instructed her to offer only cost-of-living raises. To her surprise, her superiors agreed to View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
companies should use company policy to actively make allowances for different negotiation styles of men and women? McGinn: Giving women more on their first offer is presuming a main effect. It is presuming... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January 2011
- Article
Developing Superior Negotiation Case Studies
While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have distinctive aspects that merit explicit treatment. This article offers three types of tailored advice for producing cases on... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Developing Superior Negotiation Case Studies." Negotiation Journal 27, no. 1 (January 2011): 69–85.
- 2008
- Case
Great Negotiator Case Study Package
By: James K. Sebenius, Jeswald Salacuse, Daniel Curran, Rebecca Hulse and Kristin Schneeman
This special curriculum package includes the following case studies in the Great Negotiator Case Study Series, each of which features a past recipient of PON's Great Negotiator Award:
- 2000 PON Great Negotiator: "To Hell with the Future, Let's Get... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
researchers say, is, it depends. "The technology we use to negotiate affects our definition of the negotiation game and the behavior deemed appropriate for the interaction," write Bazerman, Valley... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- August 1996 (Revised December 1996)
- Background Note
Two Psychological Traps in Negotiation
Two psychological traps, anchoring and framing, and their role in negotiation are described. The anchoring section describes how first or opening offers can be used effectively in negotiation. Examines how opening offers serve as an anchor, changing one side's... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Tactics
Wu, George. "Two Psychological Traps in Negotiation." Harvard Business School Background Note 897-036, August 1996. (Revised December 1996.)
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
Substantive acts have a set form: Parties exchange positions at the beginning of the negotiation and proceed with a series of offers and counteroffers, with little discussion of underlying priorities.... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 10 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Communicating Frames in Negotiations
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Markus Nöth
- October 2003 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
Joe Bachelder: Executive Pay Negotiator
By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman
Joe Bachelder was the leading executive pay negotiator in the United States, securing generous contracts for CEOs and executives at Fortune 500 companies. The CEO of Victor Sports Co. resigned, and the board offered the job to Charles Suarez, a star executive from a... View Details