As you watch today’s March Madness action, you may see a university promo spot featuring one of your Indisputably contributors. Who of us has the celebrity status to merits video time with Mother Theresa and Desmond Tutu? Or, to ask it differently, who would be shameless enough to suck up to the university administration to be prominently placed … Continue reading Celebrity or Shameless Suck-Up?
For many New Yorkers who susbscribe to Cablevision for their TV service, the threatened inability to watch the Academy Awards tonight has been the source of much anxiety this week. Just a few hours before the Awards show is set to air, Cablevision answered calls that it submit to binding arbitration to resolve its dispute with … Continue reading Cablevision agrees to binding arbitration with Walt Disney Co. in dispute over subscription fees
Last weekend I was reading an article with a the great title, “The Glass Ceiling is Kind of a Bummer”: Women’s Reflections on a Gender Development Course talking about how undergraduate women often, even as they are in women’s studies courses, deny the impact that sexism has had or will potentially have on their career. … Continue reading What Queen Esther Knew
I’m sure that most of the country now knows that despite their underdog status, the Buckeyes trounced (perhaps a slight exaggeration) the Oregon Ducks in what became a very fun Rose Bowl to watch!! I won’t hold Michael to his bet although I am curious about the Filberts (did I even spell that correctly?). Way … Continue reading Awaiting Filberts?
A fun article in the NYT last week (hat tip to Bobbi McAdoo for sending this along) noted a new way of taking advantage of those too inebriated to turn down empirical scientists–run experiments on them! The scientists were interested in how the ultimatum game works when people are a little fuzzy in their thinking. The ultimatum … Continue reading Drinking Games and Negotiation
With another great story about children, a shout out to my RA Erica Hayden for this lovely example of mediation told to her by a friend about her 10-year-old daughter: “Emily” came home from school one day and told her mom how she helped two girls make-up with each other after a bad fight. Emily … Continue reading The Wisdom of Children
The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution is sponsoring a Mediation Video Contest on YouTube. Details are here. The Section seeks “creative, thoughtful, original three-minute videos that demonstrate the mediation process and benefits of mediation. The goal of the competition is to further public understanding of mediation and to promote the use of mediation as a … Continue reading Mediation Video Contest
Following up to yesterday’s post on gender in different countries around the world, a student sent me a great article about how women in Mexico are dealing with the problem of their gendered context in which male cab drivers generally leer at and make comments about the women in their taxi. In the city of … Continue reading Pink Taxi Power
As I wrote about last week, I was at a negotiation conference in Istanbul where we were given assignments to actually negotiate in the Spice Market. Melissa Manwaring, who used to work with the Program on Negotiation and is now a professor at Babson College, came up with the great idea of each person from her group of … Continue reading Does the Ayres Study Work in Istanbul?
I learned from USA Today that Kate and Jon Gosselin must have entered into an arbitration in July 2009. Now, Kate Gosselin claims that Jon violated an interim arbitration award by taking $230,000 from their joint bank account. I have not yet found the documents related to these claims but find it interesting that the … Continue reading Jon and Kate plus arbitration?
