The dispute between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles has been ongoing for years. It relates to the ancient sculptures taken from the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis by men working for British Ambassador Lord Elgin in the early 19th century. Greece wants them back, and has made restitution a central part of the country’s international cultural policy since the 1980s, but the British Museum and the UK government have continually rebuffed Greek demands.
The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics, by Alexander Herman,...
Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School—Online
Join the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School for a virtual book talk discussing "Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most" with Sheila Heen (Thaddeus R. Beal, Professor of Practice and Deputy Director, Harvard Negotiation Project, at Harvard Law School) and Douglas Stone (Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School).
People tend to dislike the process of negotiation and often with good reason. They go up against jerks who present low-ball offers, make ultimatums, and try to take advantage of them. Some people feel they have to act like a jerk in response. Others are too nice and give away the store. In a new work, Barry Nalebuff asserts that there is a better way, an approach that brings principles and logic into the negotiation.
Learning to talk less, listen more, and speak with intention can make you happier, healthier, more successful, and can make you a better parent and partner. In STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World, Lyons describes his own journey to overcome his compulsive talking. This process involved digging through mountains of research and interviewing countless experts, including scientists, historians, a former CIA case officer. He also encountered a researcher who has been discovering amazing connections showing how speech is connected to our physical and...
Leaders who appreciate the value of diverse teams first build these teams, and then must ensure that they thrive. Dr. Sarah Federman will discuss this second step with special attention to supporting team members from historically marginalized groups. Her advice comes from her own global experience, as well as, the wisdom of over 100 graduate students in Baltimore, and others who successfully built their lives from the margins.
When faced with conflict, humans often fight or flee. But Julia Minson (HKS) and Francesca Gino (HBS) tell us there is a better strategy: to engage in the disagreement with an open mind and be ready to learn. Drawing on Julia’s research on receptiveness to opposing views and their joint work on the language we need to use to show others we are listening, Julia and Francesca will talk about how to disagree more productively.
Get set up for interview research. You will leave prepared to choose among the three types of interviewing methods, equipped to develop an interview schedule, aware of data management options and their ethical implications, and knowledgeable of technologies you can use to record and transcribe your interviews. This workshop complements Intro to NVivo, a qualitative data analysis tool useful for coding interview data.
Online or at Rubenstein 414AB, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge
This hybrid event will be a panel discussion between R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean Emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University; and David Autor, Ford Professor and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT Department of Economics. It will be moderated by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Aparna Mathur. Refreshments will be served for those joining us in person in the Democracy Lab (R414AB). Others should register to join us remotely via Zoom.
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers but what about the supporting cast of complicitors: business partners, employees, investors, news organizations, and others. Whether we’re aware of it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses, organizations, communities, politics, and more.
Dr. Weingart reveals the reasons women end up doing the majority of non-promotable tasks (NPTs), discusses the negative impact it has on women and their organizations, and provides low-cost solutions that organizations and their leaders can implement to fix the problem.
As part of the Fall 2022 seminar series, Intersectional Perspectives on Gender & Negotiation, Jackson Lu (MIT Sloan School of Management) will lecture on "Who Receive Tenure and Become Deans in US Business Schools? Bamboo Ceiling, Glass Ceiling, and Intersectional Effects."
In this talk, Dr. Shan will share her research findings about how people categorize masculine/feminine negotiating varies across cultures and how culture shapes gender stereotyping and gender differences in negotiations.
When Nicola Thorp reported for a white-collar job at the London office of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2016, she was told to switch from her flat footwear to two- to four-inch heels to comply with the company’s official dress-code policy for female employees. Thorp’s refusal to oblige sparked an international debate regarding whether it was appropriate to mandate female employees to wear heels as a part of their professional attire. Currently, in several countries, including the US, women in white-collar jobs are often expected to, or advised to, wear closed-toe heels in neutral colors to...
No matter how good your product or service is, the way you communicate with your customers can determine its success. Discover the forces that influence the purchasing habits of your customers and learn how to win them over with an effective marketing strategy.
The Harvard Ed Portal is pleased to offer Allston-Brighton and Cambridge residents, business owners, and entrepreneurs this valuable four-part virtual workshop that meets once a week. You will learn how to:
Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it, research shows. These "time-poor" people experience less joy each day, laugh less often, and are less healthy—and they are also less productive. How can we escape the time traps that can consume our days and make us miserable?
In the new book Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life, author and Harvard Business School Professor Ashley Whillans says we need to consciously take steps to improve our "time affluence." The book provides research-...
Capitalism is the most successful economic system to have ever existed, but it is in danger of destroying itself—and our world. In her most recent publication, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire (Hachette/Public Affairs Books, 2020), Rebecca Henderson lays out a pragmatic roadmap for how business can be an engine of prosperity, while also being a system that is in harmony with the environment and one that strives to ameliorate social injustice.
Join the Harvard Business School for a conversation with Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You.
Leadership isn't easy. It takes grit, courage, and vision, among other things, that can be hard to come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.