[Negotiation and Decision-Making @ HBS]



Schedule for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Fall Semester, 1998
# Date Discussant Topic Readings
1. 9/18 Jim Sebenius Introduction, planning Jonsson, C. (1991). Cognitive theory. In V. A. Kremenyuk (Ed.), International negotiation: Analysis, approaches, and issues. (pp. 229-243, Chapter 16). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Rubin, J. Z. (1991). Psychological approach. In V. A. Kremenyuk (Ed.), International negotiation: Analysis, approaches, and issues. (pp. 216-228, Chapter 15). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Siebe, W. (1991). Game Theory. In V. A. Kremenyuk (Ed.), International negotiation: Analysis, approaches, and issues. (pp. 180-202, Chapter 13). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
2. 10/2 Keith Allred

Afternoon speaker
John Kagel
U. Pitt
Gaming Against Managers in Incentive Systems: Experimental Results with Chinese Students and Chinese Managers
Cumnock 230
3:30-5pm
The various fields with regard to issue structure and basic assumptions Camerer, C. F. (1997). Progress in Behavioral Game Theory. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11, 167-188

Ross, L. and Ward, A. (1994). Naïve realism: Implications for social conflict. In T. Brown, E. Reed & E. Turiel (Eds.) Values and knowledge (pp.103-135, Chapter 6). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Sebenius, J. K. (1992). Negotiation analysis: A characterization and review. Management Science, 38, 18-38.

Pruitt, D. G. and Lewis, S. A. (1977). The psychology of integrative bargaining. In D. Druckman (Ed.), Negotiations: Social-Psychological perspectives. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, p. 161-192.
  10/9 Afternoon speaker
Dave Messick
N’western
An alternative logic for decision making in social settings
Cumnock 230
3:30-5pm.
No meeting, but we do have an afternoon speaker. We will make a paper available if Prof. Messick supplies us with one.
3. 10/16 Rob Robinson

Afternoon speaker
Max Bazerman
Kellogg GSM, Northwestern University
The Death and Rebirth of the Social Psychology of Negotiation
Aldrich Reading Room, HBS
3:30-5pm
(In conjunction with the OB Research Seminar)
Escalation structure and dynamics Babcock, L., Loewenstein, G., Issacharoff, S., and Camerer, C. (1996). Biased judgments of fairness in bargaining. American Economic Review, 85, 1337-1343.

Pruitt, D. and Rubin, J. (1986). Social conflict: Escalation, stalemate, and settlement, pp. 111-120. New York: Random House.

Raiffa, H. (1995). Analytical barriers. In K. Arrow, R. H. Mnookin, L. Ross, A. Tversky, and R. Wilson, Barriers to conflict resolution. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 132-149.

Robinson, R. J., & Keltner, D. (1996). Much ado about nothing? Revisionists and Traditionalists choose an introductory English syllabus. Psychological Science, 7, 18-24.
4. 10/30 Al Roth

Afternoon speaker
Jeff Polzer
U. Texas
TBA
Aldrich Reading Room, HBS
3:30-5pm
(In conjunction with the OB Research Seminar)
Reciprocity, trust, and repeated games TBA  
5. 11/13 Max Bazerman

Afternoon speaker
George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon
TBA
Cumnock 230
3:30-5pm
Context, expectations and games TBA
6.* 11/20 Brian Mandell
Afternoon speaker
Laurie Weingart
Carnegie Mellon
Offer Progression
Cumnock 230
3:30-5pm.
Group vs. individual analyses: the multi-party problem TBA
7. 12/4 Rob Robinson

Afternoon speaker
Richard Meyer
HBS
Were economists to haggle, would they waggle, would they waggle?
Cumnock 230
3:30-5pm.
Stock-taking TBA
8.** 12/11 Jim Sebenius

Afternoon speaker
Glenn Carroll
Haas School, UC Berkeley
Why the Microbrewery Movement? The Organizational Dynamics of Resource Partitioning in Post-Prohibition America
Aldrich Reading Room, HBS
3:30-5pm
(In conjunction with the OB Research Seminar)
Research plans, ideas for future TBA
*Note consecutive weeks to compensate for Thanksgiving weekend.
**Again, consecutive weeks: this is open to change but the idea is that there may be great interest at the end of the semester to plan future sessions, get research plans finalized, etc.

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