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Social Venture Capitalists, Where Are You?
I was reading yet another story about the impact that venture capital companies are having on the economy of Boston. Good (scientific and technological) ideas…
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Preparing for Climate Change Requires Collective Risk Management (CRM)
If I told you that your coastal city will probably face rising sea levels, more very hot summer days, and increasingly intense rain and snow…
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You’ve Got to Go Slow to Go Fast
[On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Consensus Building Institute, April, 2014] I don’t like to put things off. I’m for getting everything…
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What is sustainable city development?
Our team has spent the last two weeks in Malaysia, moving from city to city, meeting with public officials, private developers, civil society organizations and…
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Why don’t judges just settle legal disputes?
Originally Posted: December 7th, 2013 In some Canadian provinces, they take what is called Judicial Dispute Resolution (JDR) very seriously. During designated periods, litigants can…
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Advanced Negotiation Training
Originally Posted: August 21st, 2013 The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School (www.pon.harvard.edu) just offered a Master Class in Negotiation for the first…
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What To Do in a Risky and Uncertain World
Originally posted: July 31st, 2013 Have you ever noticed that all the writing about risk perception and risk assessment assumes a unitary mind? One single…
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Learning from Malaysia, Learning In Malaysia
Originally Posted: June 22nd, 2013 I am pleased to be part of the five year Sustainable Cities Partnership that MIT just initiated with the Universiti…
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Participatory Action Research (PAR) vs. Applied Social Science as We Know It
Originally posted: May 28th, 2013 There are a number of authors like Bent Flyvbjerg who have done a masterful job spelling out all the reasons…
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An Online University? Are you Crazy?
Originally Posted: April 7, 2013 I wish some of the people who are so excited about the prospect of online college courses being taught by…
The Consensus Building Approach
Larry Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT and Vice-Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. His blog reports on the way consensus building and negotiation tools are being used to ensure more democratic decision-making. Larry is also founder and chief knowledge officer of the Consensus Building Institute.
