Diplomacy - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences that range from minor... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2012
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Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges

Keywords: by James Sebenius

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Remaking the Imperial Presidency: The Mayaguez Incident of 1975 and the Contradictions of Credibility

By: Mattias Fibiger

This article argues that the Mayaguez incident of 1975 was a missed opportunity to establish a more democratic American foreign policy. President Gerald Ford managed the crisis with an eye toward domestic and international credibility. But his conception of credibility... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Policy; Presidency; Ford Administration; Government and Politics; History; Crisis Management; United States

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Winter 2012
Article

Is a Nuclear Deal with Iran Possible?: An Analytical Framework for the Iran Nuclear Negotiations

By: James K. Sebenius and Michael K. Singh

Varied diplomatic approaches by multiple negotiators over several years have failed to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran. Mutual hostility, misperception, and flawed diplomacy may be responsible. Yet, more fundamentally, no mutually acceptable deal may exist. To assess... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear Proliferation; Zone Of Possible Agreement; International Relations; Negotiation; Iran; United States

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23 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Tommy Koh: Background and Major Accomplishments of the ’Great Negotiator, 2014

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius & Laurence A. Green

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Great Negotiator Study Initiative

By: James K. Sebenius

What can be legitimately be learned from closely studying great negotiators at work? Since 2000, the Program on Negotiation (PON)—an active inter-university consortium mainly comprised of numerous faculty from across... View Details

24 Feb 2021
Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

understanding to the unique challenges you confront. The process is crucial in business as well as war and diplomacy because, as Malhotra says in his course syllabus, “being smart and well-intentioned is not enough.” For Malhotra, who has... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

Harvard Business School; Laidler-Kylander (HBS MBA '92) is a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Manda Salls: Any organization—profit or nonprofit— faces challenges when it goes global. What are... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

03 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

lens of their research. Deepak Malhotra The US response to events in the Middle East and North Africa needs to be guided by three key tenets of effective diplomacy. First, diplomacy needs to consider our enemies tomorrow, not just our... View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

understand the delicate interplay between negotiation and coercive power. Speaking of the U.S. failure in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger said, "Treating force and diplomacy as discrete phenomena caused our power to lack purpose and our... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

Future of Diplomacy Project and Harvard University's South Asia Institute, brought together diplomats, security experts, and entrepreneurs in a conversation that ought to occur more often. Celebrate, on the one hand, the dramatic rise in... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

full-blown crises. We explore the reasons—cognitive, organizational, and political—why predictable surprises happen and we develop a framework to help leaders recognize, prioritize, and mobilize to avoid them. Once that is done, I'm planning to work on a book on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

market reaction to attempts to enforce sovereign debt contracts via U.S. "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America in the pre-World War II period and by legal action in the 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that dollar diplomacy created... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

to negotiate the Brexit endgame, she might well consider three lessons from Wilson’s futile diplomacy during his last year in office. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55708 2018 Yale Journal on Regulation... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Varied diplomatic approaches by multiple negotiators over several years have failed to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran. Mutual hostility, misperception, and flawed diplomacy may be responsible. Yet, more fundamentally, no mutually... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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