Negotiation is a key management skill at every level of every firm in every age and region. This course develops students' abilities to negotiate using a number of realistic negotiation simulations. Together with lectures, discussion and exercises, students gain a number of principles and tools drawn from many disciplines including economics, behavioral science, game theory, and history. The course begins with core skills for creating and claiming wealth wisely and then advances to skills for handling complex transactions.

Ann Bartel

Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation

Professor Bartel is the Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation at Columbia Business School and the Director of Columbia Business School's Workforce Transformation Initiative. She is an expert in the fields of labor economics and human resource management and has published numerous articles on employee training, human capital investments, job mobility, and the impact of technological change on productivity, worker skills, and outsourcing...

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