Negotiation

The teaching cases in this section introduce students to the theory and practice of negotiation by emphasizing both analytical and interpersonal skills. Several lessons can be found, including how to trade on differences to create value, overcome a status and power imbalance, build a multi-party coalition, and balance the demands of internal vs. external negotiations.

  • Teaching Case - The Oslo Channel: Getting to the Negotiating Table

    The Oslo Channel: Getting to the Negotiating Table

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    This is a detailed account, based in part on interviews with key participants of the secret negotiations in Oslo, which led to Israeli recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization and to the creation of an autonomous Palestinian...

  • Teaching Case - Nelson Mandela: The Man Behind the Symbol

    Nelson Mandela: The Man Behind the Symbol

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    This is another in the series of "great leader" cases. (See also George Washington (Case # 479.0), Martin Luther King (Case # 365.0), and George Marshall (Case # 480.0). In its focus on the man who, against all odds, helped lead South Africa...

  • Teaching Case - Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

    Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    The road to the breakthrough Dayton Peace Accords, which ushered in the prospect of a stable peace in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, is built through an intricate, high-pressure negotiation brokered by the United States and involving Serbia,...

  • Teaching Case - The Gulf Crisis: Building a Coalition for War

    The Gulf Crisis: Building a Coalition for War

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1994

    The Gulf War--the US led effort to oust Iraq's armed forces from neighboring, oil-rich Kuwait--may be best remembered for the sheer effectiveness of the tactics and power which achieved the US military objectives in short order. But between the...

  • Teaching Case - Groundwater Regulation in Arizona

    Groundwater Regulation in Arizona

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1991

    Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, increasing demands for water threatened to lead to a crisis in Arizona. The growth of the desert state's cities posed a conflict with its agricultural and mining interests. Its main source of water--groundwater...

  • Teaching Case - Sanctions against Toshiba: The Aftermath of a Scandal

    Sanctions against Toshiba: The Aftermath of a Scandal

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1991

    The 1988 revelation that a subsidiary of the Japanese electronics firm Toshiba had supplied sensitive military hardware to the Soviet Union posed a surprisingly complex diplomatic problem for the Reagan administration. Although it had long been...

  • Teaching Case - A Big Dark Pond: Britain, China & Hong Kong, 1979

    A Big Dark Pond: Britain, China & Hong Kong, 1979

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1991

    When the governor of the British crown colony of Hong Kong is invited to an unprecedented meeting with top leaders of the People's Republic of China, he suddenly faces a decision about a crucial and delicate matter: the status of booming...