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Oct 19 2026
Your Weekly Roundup of PON Programs
Overview
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School has announced its upcoming executive-education programmes in negotiation, mediation and conflict management. The programme lineup includes short in-person intensives, focused live online courses and semester-length virtual programmes for professionals seeking different levels of instruction.
Led by Harvard faculty and internationally recognised experts, the programmes address areas such as negotiation preparation, value creation, mediation, difficult conversations, resistance, multi-party negotiations and dispute resolution. Participants who complete a programme receive an official certificate of completion.
Details
Programme Information
Announcement: Weekly Roundup of PON Programmes
Organiser: Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Category: Executive education
Newsletter date: 18 October 2026
Learning formats: In-person programmes, short live online courses and semester-length online courses.
Programme duration: Options range from focused two-day online courses and three-to-five-day in-person programmes to extended semester courses.
Instruction: Programmes are taught by Harvard faculty and recognised specialists in negotiation, mediation and conflict management.
Certification: Each programme includes an official certificate of completion.
Negotiation and Leadership
Programme: Negotiation and Leadership: Dealing with Difficult People and Problems
Format: In person
Scheduled dates: 16–18 November 2026; 15–17 March 2027; 12–14 April 2027; and 14–16 June 2027.
Programme structure: Six sessions led by six different faculty members.
Learning activities: Interactive role plays, faculty discussions, question-and-answer opportunities and networking with other participants.
Faculty representation: Faculty members are drawn from Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School.
Mediation Programmes
Programme: Harvard Mediation Intensive
Format and dates: Five-day in-person programme scheduled for 2–6 November 2026 and 17–21 May 2027.
Mediation Intensive focus: Principles and practice of mediation across employment, commercial and international disputes.
Learning approach: Participants develop mediation judgment and technique through case simulations and guided practice.
Advanced programme: Harvard Advanced Mediation Intensive
Advanced programme dates: 10–13 May 2027
Target participants: Accomplished mediators seeking to deepen their expertise and manage complex, high-stakes disputes.
Advanced topics: Managing power imbalances, breaking impasses, adapting the mediation process to the parties’ needs and mediating across cultures.
Advanced Negotiation Programme
Programme: Harvard Negotiation Master Class: Advanced Strategies for Experienced Negotiators
Format and dates: Five-day in-person programme scheduled for 7–11 December 2026 and 5–9 April 2027.
Eligibility: The programme is intended for experienced negotiators who have completed prior negotiation training.
Faculty institutions: Harvard Law School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Kennedy School.
Learning focus: Intensive simulations, two-way feedback and practical frameworks for addressing complicated negotiation challenges.
Short Online Programmes
Programme: Overcoming Resistance: The Influence Equation
Date and format: Online programme scheduled for 3 February 2027.
Influence Equation: Participants will learn a practical framework for diagnosing and overcoming three major factors that can create resistance during negotiations.
Programme: Negotiation Essentials Online
Dates: 21–22 January 2027 and 23–24 March 2027.
Essentials curriculum: The two-day live virtual programme covers preparation, value creation and negotiation under pressure.
Programme: Managing Complex Negotiations
Dates: 18–19 February 2027 and 20–21 April 2027.
Complex-negotiation focus: Coalition-building, adaptive strategy and maintaining progress in extended multi-party negotiations involving competing interests.
Semester-Length Online Courses
Course: Semester Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
Course dates: 24 February–12 May 2027
Course focus: Negotiation theory, value creation, dispute resolution and practical negotiation skills.
Teaching approach: Research from multiple academic fields is combined with interactive and experiential learning exercises.
Course: Semester Mediation and Conflict Management
Course dates: 25 January–5 April 2027
Conflict-management focus: The course helps participants understand their own approach to conflict while developing practical mediation and conflict-management capabilities.
Third-party processes: Various dispute-resolution processes involving third parties are discussed, with particular emphasis on mediation.
Registration and further information: Interested professionals may review programme requirements, availability and registration information through the links included in the original Program on Negotiation communication.
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