The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with aftershocks that will be felt in virtually every aspect of life for years or decades to come. The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Pardee School of Global Studies has launched a new video series called "The World After Coronavirus," in which we ask leading experts and practitioners from Boston University and across the world to explore the challenges and opportunities we will face in our post-coronavirus future. In this episode, Dean Najam speaks with Lawrence E. Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the future of problem solving in crises after COVID-19.
Larry Susskind, MIT professor and co-founder of the Program on Negotiation joins us to talk about his book Good for You, Great for Me. We’re talking about how to negotiate against the 900-pound gorilla; the organization that seemingly has all the leverage in negotiations because of its size.
Larry discusses the “the trading zone”— the space where you can create deals that are “good for them but great for you” while maintaining trust.
During the fall of 2017, art educator B. Stephen Carpenter II began a residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). He provided new perspectives on issues of access, privilege, and the global water crisis through a series of seminars, performances, and workshops. Carpenter's seminars illustrated ways of disrupting systems of oppression and ways to increase access to potable water in politically marginalized communites in the United States and abroad.
The Davidoff Tapes Project is an initiative of the MS in Urban Planning and Community Development, which seeks to address a significant gap in the contemporary urban planning literature related to the life and work of Paul Davidoff as a planning scholar, professional educator, planning practitioner, and Civil Rights activist.
Short videos for teaching about five key concepts in negotiation and dispute resolution: the mutual gains approach to negotiation, negotiating in teams, winning at win-win negotiation, multiparty negotiation and managing the tensions between the internal and external elements of a negotiation. All five ideas feature 6 – 8 minute presentations by MIT Professor Larry Susskind, Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer of the Consensus Building Institute.
In the fourth panel of presenters for the Finance, Geography and Sustainability Workshops, Elke Weber, Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor or Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT discuss how individuals construction and measure risks, and how an understanding of these feelings of risk can be applied to climate change decisions.
Professor Lawrence Susskind's first video in the DUSP Faculty Videos. In this video Larry talks about his academic interests spanning his 45 years at MIT. In addition, he describes the benefits and network EPP and DUSP offer to students at MIT.
How can planners involve individuals to participate in an informed manner in the planning process for their communities? What effect do localized, carefully designed, serious games have on their participants's actions in their community? Can they be used as a public policy and planning tool to change the course of history in particular locations?
Professor Lawrence Susskind's presentation on creating consensus on local climate risk management, drawn from Managaing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities and the research conducted for the New England Climate Adaptation Project.
MIT's Center for International Studies hosted the Starr Forum: The Warming Arctic: Site of a New 'Cold War'?where speakers explored the geopolitical implications of the thawing Arctic. Speakers discussed what is at stake as trade routes and mineral deposits open up due to Climate Change. The changing landscape in the Arctic opens up tremendous potential, but also the possibility of geopolitical conflict among the littoral states. The range of topics included; What should be the new international regime governing Arctic exploration and passage? What are US and Russian objectives in the Arctic? Can the states surrounding the Arctic agree about governance? How great is the potential for conflict over Arctic resources and re-militarization?
The Program On Negotiation's Vice-Chair of Education, Professor Lawrence Susskind shares some valuable insights on the process of the consensus building approach.
The Program On Negotiation's Vice-Chair of Education, Professor Lawrence Susskind shares some valuable insights on the process of who should be at the negotiation table.
The Program On Negotiation's Vice-Chair of Education, Professor Lawrence Susskind shares some valuable insights on his groundbreaking book, Breaking Robert's Rules.
The Program On Negotiation's Vice-Chair of Education, Professor Lawrence Susskind shares some valuable insights on value creation during a negotiation.
The Program On Negotiation's Vice-Chair of Education, Professor Lawrence Susskind shares some valuable insights on facilitative leadership in Negotiation.
The Program On Negotiation at Harvard Law School invited three members of its highly experienced negotiation faculty to share stories about how they have adapted their teaching strategies in various cross-cultural contexts.
