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One book and one set of role simulation exercises are required.

Amazon logo Fisher, Roger, W. William Ury, and Bruce Patton. Getting to Yes. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Penguin, 1991. ISBN: 0140157352.

The packet contains all the role play simulations we will use over the course of the term:

  1. Appleton vs. Baker
  2. Elmtree House
  3. Malta
  4. Patriot
  5. Sally Soprano
  6. Table Talk
  7. HackerStar Negotiation
  8. Redstone
  9. The Vineyard
  10. Theotis Wiley
  11. Re-engineering Game
  12. Zabian Game
  13. Weathers and Evans
  14. Intersoft Argentina (two parts)
  15. Three-Party Coalition Exercise
  16. Harborco

SES #TOPICSREADINGS
Part I: Bargaining and Strategic Interaction
1Introductions / Course Overview
2An Introduction to BargainingPreparatory Reading

Amazon logo Schelling, Thomas. "An Essay on Bargaining." In The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960, 1980, pp. 21-52. ISBN: 0674840313.

Exercise Readings

Susskind, Lawrence, and Michael Wheeler. "Appleton vs. Baker." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse.
3An Introduction to Bargaining (cont.)Preparatory Reading

Amazon logo Schelling, Thomas. "Bargaining, Communication, Limited War." In The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960, 1980, pp. 53-80. ISBN: 0674840313.
4Exercise Readings

Amazon logo Raiffa, Howard. "Elmtree House." In The Art and Science of Negotiation. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982, pp. 35-43. ISBN: 067404813X.
5Exercise Readings

Amazon logo Wriggins, Howard W. "Up for Auction: Malta Bargains with Great Britain, 1971." In The Fifty Percent Solution. Edited by W. Zartman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976, pp. 208-234. ISBN: 0385096569.
6Preparatory Readings

Davidson, Adam. "Working Stiffs." Harpers 303, no. 1815 (August 2001): 48-54.

Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. "The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice." Science 211 (1981): 453-458.

Exercise Readings

Part A: Hammond, John S., III, and Marjorie Corman Aaron. "Byrnes, Byrnes, and Townsend." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing (December 27, 1994): Case 09-395-135.

Part B: ———. "Patriot National Insurance Co." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing (December 27, 1994): Case 09-395-134.
7Preparatory Readings

Goodpaster, Gary. "A Primer on Competitive Bargaining." Journal of Disp Res (1996): 341-349, 370-377.
Part II: Cooperation and Mutual Gains
8Preparatory Readings

Kelman, Herbert C. "Negotiation as Interactive Problem Solving." International Negotiation 1 (1996): 99-123.

Exercise Readings

Davis, Wayne, Mark N. Gordon, and Bruce Patton. "Sally Soprano Part I." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse.
9Preparatory Readings

Amazon logo Raiffa, Howard. "Post-Settlement Settlements." Negotiation Journal 1, no. 1 (January 1985): 9-12. Reprinted in Breslin, J. William, and Jeffrey Z. Rubin, eds. Negotiation Theory and Practice. Cambridge, MA: Program On Negotiation at Harvard Law School, 1991, pp. 323-326. ISBN: 1880711001.

Davis, Albie M. "An Interview with Mary Parker Follett." Negotiation Journal 5, no. 3 (1989).
10Preparatory Readings

Amazon logo Fisher, Roger, W. William Ury, and Bruce Patton. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Penguin, 1991. ISBN: 0140157352.

Exercise Readings

Harvard Negotiation Project. "The HackerStar Negotiation." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearing House and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, 1985.
11Preparatory Readings

Amazon logo Fisher, Roger, W. William Ury, and Bruce Patton. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Penguin, 1991. ISBN: 0140157352.

Exercise Readings

Harvard Negotiation Project. "The HackerStar Negotiation." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, 1985.
12Preparatory Readings

Amazon logo Lewicki, Roy J., Joseph A. Litterer, John W. Minton, and David M. Saunders. "Strategy and Tactics of Integrative Negotiation." In Negotiation. 2nd ed. Homewood, IL: R.D. Irwin, 1985, pp. 80-108. ISBN: 0256026335.

Fisher, Roger. "Negotiating Power: Getting and Using Influence." American Behavioral Scientist 27, no. 2 (December 1983): 149-166.

Exercise Readings

Susskind, Lawrence, and John Forester. "Negotiated Development in Redstone." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse, 1995.
13Preparatory Readings

Lax, David, and James Sebenius. "Interests the Measure of Negotiation." Negotiation Journal 2, no. 1 (January 1986): 73-92.

Amazon logo Susskind, Lawrence, and Jeffrey Cruikshank. "Good Outcomes of Negotiated Settlements." In Breaking the Impasse. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1987, pp. 21-33. ISBN: 0465007511.
14Preparatory Readings

Amazon logo Mnookin, Robert S., Scott Peppet, and Andrew Tulumello. Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, chapter 1, pp. 11-43. ISBN: 0674003357.

Matz, David. "Ignorance and Interests." Harvard Negotiation L Rev 4 (1999): 59-65.

Exercise Readings

Erhard, Jack. "Theotis Wiley." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse. (Written under the supervision of Robert C. Bordone.)
15Preparatory Readings

Wetlaufer, Gerald. "The Limits of Integrative Bargaining." Georgetown L J 85 (1996): 369-394.

Exercise Readings

Erhard, Jack. "Theotis Wiley." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse. (Written under the supervision of Robert C. Bordone.)
Part III: How Can We Shape the Game We Play?
16Theotis Wiley
17Theotis Wiley (cont.)
18Negotiation and the Art of Listening

Guest Lecture - Marianella Sclavi, University of Milan
Preparatory Readings

Sclavi, Marianella. "Seven Rules of the Art of Listening."
19Constructing Trust IPreparatory Readings

Amazon logo Sabel, Charles. "Studied Trust: Building New Forms of Cooperation in a Volatile Economy." In Industrial Districts and Local Economic Regeneration. Edited by F. Pyke and W. Sengenberger. Geneva, Switzerland: International Institute for Labour Studies, 1992, pp. 215-250. ISBN: 9290144718.
20Theorizing Negotiation as CommunicationPreparatory Readings

Watzlawick, Paul, Janet B. Bavelas, and Don D. Jackson. "Some Tentative Axioms of Communication." Chapter 2 in Pragmatics of Human Communication. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1967.
21Perspective TakingPreparatory Readings

Gurevitch, J. D. "The Power of Not Understanding." Journal of Behavioral Science 25, no. 2 (1989): 161-173.

Exercise Readings

Stone, Douglas. "Weathers and Evans." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse.
22Constructing Trust IIPreparatory Readings

Wu, Jenai, and David Laws. "Trust and Other-Anxiety in Negotiations." Negotiation Journal 19, no. 4 (October 2003): 329-367.

Exercise Readings

Hill, Linda A., and Stacey Palastrant. "Intersoft of Argentina, Parts A and B." Harvard Business School Cases. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing (September 10, 2006): Cases 09-497-025, 09-497-026.
Part IV: Big Cases
23Escalation and Psychological ProcessesPreparatory Readings

Amazon logo Deutsch, Morton. The Resolution of Conflict: Constructive and Destructive Processes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. ISBN: 0300021860.

Exercise Readings

Susskind, Lawrence. "Three-Party Coalition Exercise." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse, 1986, 1994, 1995.
24Coalitions
25Preparatory Readings

Amazon logo Sebenius, James. "Sequencing to Build Coalitions: With whom should I talk first?" In Wise Choice: Decisions, Games, and Negotiations. Edited by R. Zeckerhauser, R. Keeney, and J. Sebenius. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. ISBN: 0875846777.

Exercise Readings

Madigan, Denise, Thomas Weeks, and Lawrence Susskind. "Harborco." Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Simulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse.
26Summary

 








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