Negotiations - Publications - Faculty & Research

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February 1990 (Revised April 1990)
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Contract Negotiations at Local 26 (A)

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2000
Working Paper

It Takes Two: Improvisations in Negotiations

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Angela Keros

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January 1999 (Revised August 1999)
Background Note

Doing Business in Russia: Note on Negotiating in the "Wild East"

By: James K. Sebenius and Randall A Fine

Based on an MBA's experience, this anecdotal note explores cross-border negotiations between U.S. executives and Russian counterparts. The first section guides the reader through general aspects of the Russian market. Next follows a characterization of the Russian... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Problems and Challenges; Negotiation Style; Decisions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Participants; Russia; United States

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2003
Case

Lakhdar Brahimi / Negotiating a New Government for Afghanistan

By: James K. Sebenius and Kristin Schneeman

Part of the PON Great Negotiator Case Study Series, this factual case study examines former UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's involvement in negotiating an interim Afghani government after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. As a result of these efforts, Brahimi... View Details

Keywords: Contemporary History; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Leadership Style; Cognition and Thinking; Conferences; Afghanistan

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Spring 2018
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Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via Remarkably Creative Negotiation

By: James K. Sebenius

When Robert Mugabe was forced out of office in late 2017 after 37 years of increasingly brutal rule in Zimbabwe, he had been in the job so long that few recall how he got there. Fewer still remember that it was Henry Kissinger, whose complex, if unlikely, negotiations... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; History; Negotiation Style; Outcome or Result; Zimbabwe

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2024
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Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations: Figueres the Negotiator (C)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian

This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Management; International Relations; Leadership

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Negotiation and Diplomacy - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Negotiation and Diplomacy Course Number 2218 Professor James Sebenius Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Co-taught with Professor Nicholas Burns, Harvard Kennedy School What can we learn from studying highly skilled View Details

Fall 2011
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Leveraging Tribal Sovereignty for Economic Opportunity: A Strategic Negotiations Perspective

By: Gavin Clarkson and James K. Sebenius

Indian tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut, Foxwoods, and the substantial revenue shared... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Ethnicity; Negotiation Tactics; Race; Social Issues; Relationships; Government and Politics; Economics; United States

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01 Jun 2004
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An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators

Shady dealings at the negotiating table may work in the short term, but in the end, you’ll undermine trust and tarnish your reputation, warns HBS professor Michael A. Wheeler in the March issue of Negotiation, a newsletter from HBS... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Teaching Note

Fiji versus FIJI: Negotiating Over Water (TN)

By: Francesca Gino, Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice

Keywords: Negotiation; Fiji

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January 2002
Article

Dealcrafting: The Substance of Three Dimensional Negotiation

By: David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Negotiation

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April 2001
Article

Six Habits of Merely Effective Negotiators

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Negotiation

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June 2007
Supplement

EZAmuse Negotiation (D): Rob Bonham Background

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

Keywords: Negotiation

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May 1982
Background Note

Note on the 1982 Auto Negotiations

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Negotiation; Auto Industry

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12 Dec 2024
News

What People Still Get Wrong About Negotiations

Fall 2020
Article

Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details

Keywords: Art; Negotiation; Arts

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