A Look at the Writers Guild Strike

Just as the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers head back to the table, Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Bob Bordone offers some insight on possible next steps in the negotiations, including identifying sources of value and creating an interest-based process for future negotiations. 18:33

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Negotiation Lessons from Baseball’s Free Agents

Now that Major League Baseball season is over, there are several good players who are now “free agents.” In this episode, PON intern Noah Susskind interviews Harvard Business School Professor Michael Wheeler about Major League Baseball’s free agent negotiations. Wheeler discusses the Boston Red Sox’s talks with World Series MVP Mike Lowell and highlights three features of these negotiations–considerations of value, publicity and policy–and the implications for other negotiations. 5:49

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