Publications

February 1997 (Revised September 2000)
Case

3M: Negotiating Air Pollution Credits (B)

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Thomas Dretler

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Negotiation Types; Pollutants; Negotiation Participants; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Government and Politics; United States

December 1994 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Final Offer: Part II

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Jan Martinez

Supplements Background Note: GM-UAW Negotiations--1984. View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Labor Unions; Labor; Auto Industry; United States

August 2006
Article

What Negotiators Can Learn from Improv Comedy

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Lakshmi Balachandra

Keywords: Negotiation; Entertainment

Article

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu

The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods

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2018
Chapter

New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee

For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory

January 2002 (Revised April 2015)
Background Note

A Note on Maneuvering in War and Negotiation

By: Michael Wheeler and Gillian Morris

Military metaphors are commonplace in business writing about strategy, but they are rarely used in the negotiation literature. This case takes the Marine Corps philosophy of warfighting and compares it with the tactics and techniques of effective negotiators. Some of... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Situation or Environment; Conflict and Resolution; War; Adaptation

August 2007
Simulation

Negotiation Strategy Simulation

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gregory M. Barron

Keywords: Negotiation; Strategy

October 2009
Supplement

ADR Choices Video (Alternative Dispute Resolution Vignettes)

Keywords: Media

October 30, 1994
Article

Sports Strikes: Let the Games Continue

Keywords: Labor; Disruption; Sports Industry

September 9, 1994
Article

Virtual Strike

January 2005 (Revised February 2005)
Case

Ray Rogers and the Corporate Campaign (A)

Sets the stage for analyzing the strategy of labor organizer Ray Rogers in bringing J.P. Stevens to the bargaining table when conventional union tactics failed. Though set in the specific context of labor-management relations, it illustrates much more fundamental... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Tactics; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Manufacturing Industry; United States

2010
Working Paper

CREATING LEADERS WORKSHOP: Mastering the Principles and Effective Delivery of 'The Ontological Leadership Course' (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Kari L. Granger and Joseph J. DiMaggio M.D.

This workshop is designed to support participants in gaining mastery in the delivery of our new course: "Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model." The Workshop was delivered at the United States Air Force Academy (July 13 - 16,... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; Policy; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Performance Capacity; Social and Collaborative Networks