Publications

01 Mar 2008
News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms Produce: View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

A simple view of negotiation presents a cold transaction between what one person has and what the other person is willing to pay for it. If the price is right, the deal gets done. As anyone who has recently bought a car or sold a house... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

10 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Communicating Frames in Negotiations

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Markus Nöth

December 2003
Teaching Note

Negotiation Self-Assessment (TN)

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Teaching Note to (9-902-218). View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Style; Performance Evaluation; Personal Characteristics

2002
Chapter

International Negotiation Analysis

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Negotiation; International Relations

February 1991 (Revised April 1994)
Background Note

Note on Negotiation

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Negotiation

Find at Harvard

04 Apr 2016
Book

How to Negotiate Situations That Feel Hopeless

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2001
Simulation

Negotiating Corporate Change

By: J. K. Sebenius

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Negotiation

August 2007
Simulation

Negotiation Strategy Simulation

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gregory M. Barron

Keywords: Negotiation; Strategy

2012
Other Teaching and Training Material

Learning to Negotiate

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Keywords: Learning; Negotiation

June 2002
Background Note

Negotiating Strategic Alliances

This cse lays out a framework for how smaller companies should approach building strategic alliances with larger partners. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Alliances

18 Nov 2015
News

Emotion and the Art of Negotiation

March 2024
Supplement

Negotiating the Gift of Life (B)

By: Alex Chan

Describes a negotiation where lives are truly at stake, where key lessons on persuasion and the role that identity might play in a negotiation are on display through an effort by a frontline negotiator from OneLegacy, the US's largest organ procurement organization. As... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Negotiation; Communication; Diversity; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry

2008
Other Teaching and Training Material

Great Negotiator 2004: Ambassador Richard Holbrooke

By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel

The Program on Negotiation honored Ambassador Holbrooke in events in October 2004. These began with an in-depth faculty-moderated discussion with an invited group of students, faculty and guests at Harvard Business School and concluded with Ambassador Holbrooke... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Negotiation

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

Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Executive Compensation; Retail Industry; Sports Industry

May 2001 (Revised December 2002)
Exercise

Alphexo Corporation: Confidential Negotiation Information

By: James K. Sebenius

A two-party, multiple-issue dollar-scoring negotiation exercise dealing with the formation and terms of an IT-industry joint venture. Subordinates have made some progress on several issues but have reached an impasse. Division heads will now attempt to reach a... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Types; Joint Ventures; Conflict Management; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

05 Feb 2014
News

Emotions as a negotiating tool

January 2002 (Revised March 2002)
Case

Intuitive Surgical - Negotiating the Deal

By: Jay O. Light and Anthony Massaro

Two cofounders of a company enter into a negotiation to set the terms of a start-up in the field of laparoscopic surgery. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Style; Negotiation Deal; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry