The Hindu Business Line : Harvard Law School open to tie-ups in India

THE Harvard Law School, which runs the world's first inter-disciplinary Programme on Negotiation (PON), is open to the idea of collaboration with acknowledged centres of excellence in India, provided such an institution is found by the US institution as a perfect fit.

Replying to queries by Business Line at an interactive session recently on PON and other programmes for senior business executives, Mr James Kerwin, Assistant Director of PON at Harvard Law School, said such programmes were written for a global business audience, and any tie-up with other international institutions was a good idea, provided one succeeds in coming up with a perfect fit.

PON, founded and based at Harvard Law School, is open to both lawyers and non-lawyers, and is drawn from numerous fields of study, including law, business, government, psychology, economics, anthropology and education. It is an inter-university "consortium involving faculty, graduate students, and administrative staff from a range of disciplines and professional schools at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Tufts University.

Giving an overview of the programme, labelled as an applied research centre committed to improving the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution, Mr Kerwin said besides encouraging new thinking in negotiation theory and increasing public awareness of successful conflict resolution processes, PON also provided training and prepared graduates to assume a leadership role in the world community.

Describing PON as being among the world's pre-eminent executive negotiation training institutions, he said a large number of professionals had learnt to be better negotiators through PON's 2-3 days Executive Education Seminars at HLS.

The programme for lawyers offers week-long training workshops to improve negotiation and mediation skills.

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