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Annual Report ANNUAL REPORT ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-2017 Table of Contents Summary of Academic Year 2016-2017 ........................................................................................................ 6 1. Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................... 6 2. Research, Scholarship and Project Activities ..................................................................................... 9 A. Areas of Inquiry – Research Program’s Mission Statement .......................................................... 9 B. Projects / Research & Scholarship .............................................................................................. 10 i. Harvard Negotiation Research Project .................................................................................... 10 a. American Secretaries of State Project ................................................................................ 10 b. Great Negotiators, Effective Diplomacy, and Intractable Conflicts .................................... 10 c. Negotiating Jewish Identity in Contemporary America ...................................................... 10 d. Association of Family and Conciliation Courts .................................................................... 10 ii. Harvard Negotiation Project ................................................................................................... 11 a. The Harvard International Negotiation Program ................................................................ 11 b. The Global Negotiation Initiative ........................................................................................ 13 iii. American Secretaries of State Project ..................................................................................... 15 iv. The Middle East Negotiation Initiative (MENI)........................................................................ 17 v. MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program .................................................................................... 17 vi. Program on Negotiations in the Workplace ............................................................................ 18 vii. PON Research Seminar ............................................................................................................ 20 viii. PON Research Lab ................................................................................................................... 20 ix. Leadership and Negotiation .................................................................................................... 21 C. Clinical Work ............................................................................................................................... 21 D. Publications and Other Activities ................................................................................................ 21 i. Publications ............................................................................................................................. 21 a. Negotiation Journal ............................................................................................................. 21 b. Negotiation Briefings .......................................................................................................... 22 c. Harvard Negotiation Law Review ....................................................................................... 23 d. Teaching Negotiation .......................................................................................................... 23 e. Books published by PON-affiliated faculty in 2016-2017 ................................................... 23 ii. Conferences ............................................................................................................................. 23 a. Harvard Negotiation Law Review Symposium .................................................................... 23 iii. Workshops ............................................................................................................................... 24 2 a. Women2Women ................................................................................................................. 24 b. Safe Mothers and Newborns Leadership Workshop: How to be a Skilled and Confident Negotiator ................................................................................................................................... 24 iv. Events ...................................................................................................................................... 24 a. American Secretaries of State Project ................................................................................ 24 b. The Herbert C. Kelman Series on Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media ................... 25 c. PON Lunch Talks .................................................................................................................. 25 d. PON Film Series ................................................................................................................... 26 e. Other Events ....................................................................................................................... 27 E. Fellows, Visiting Researchers, Research Assistants and Interns ................................................. 29 i. 2016-2017 Visiting Scholars and Researchers ......................................................................... 29 ii. 2016-2017 PON Graduate Research Fellows .......................................................................... 29 iii. PON Summer Fellowship Program .......................................................................................... 31 iv. Student Teaching and Research Assistants ............................................................................. 34 v. 2016-2017 PON Interns and Student Assistants ..................................................................... 34 3. Teaching (Contributions to the HLS Teaching Program) ................................................................. 34 A. Courses at Harvard Law School ................................................................................................... 34 B. Harvard Negotiation Institute at the Program on Negotiation (HNI) ......................................... 35 C. Teaching Negotiation Resource Center ...................................................................................... 35 D. PON Seminars ............................................................................................................................. 36 4. Student Participation ....................................................................................................................... 37 A. PON Student Interest Group (SIG) .............................................................................................. 37 B. PON Summer Fellowship Program .............................................................................................. 37 C. Student Teaching and Research Assistants ................................................................................. 37 D. PON Open House ........................................................................................................................ 37 E. Harvard Negotiation Law Review ............................................................................................... 38 F. Next Generation Grants Program ............................................................................................... 38 G. Graduate Student Grants Program ............................................................................................. 38 H. Roger Fisher and Frank E. Sander Prize ...................................................................................... 38 I. Howard Raiffa Doctoral Student Paper Award ........................................................................... 38 5. Faculty Participation ........................................................................................................................ 39 6. Other Contributions to the HLS Community ................................................................................... 39 7. Law Reform and Advocacy .............................................................................................................. 39 3 8. Connections to the Profession ........................................................................................................ 40 A. Research ...................................................................................................................................... 40 B. Executive Education Programs .................................................................................................... 40 i. Harvard Negotiation Institute at the Program on Negotiation (HNI)...................................... 40 ii. Negotiation and Leadership & One-Day In-Depth Sessions .................................................... 41 iii. Advanced Negotiation Master Class ....................................................................................... 42 iv. PON Global .............................................................................................................................. 42 v. PON Executive Education in China .......................................................................................... 43 C. PON Seminars ............................................................................................................................
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