About Us
Founded in 2016 as the successor to the Kennedy School Negotiation Project, we are working within the Harvard Kennedy School and outside of it to create new ideas on how to negotiate most effectively, convene leaders, and equip them with critical negotiation skills.
About the Collaboratory
Founded in 2016 as the successor to the Kennedy School Negotiation Project, we are working within the Harvard Kennedy School and outside of it to create new ideas on how to negotiate most effectively, convene leaders, and equip them with critical negotiation skills.
History & Mission
In 2016, the predecessor to NCRC, the Kennedy School Negotiation Project, was launched based on the belief that you can’t lead if you can’t negotiate. Today’s public leaders are faced with increasingly complex problems that require cross-boundary, collaborative leadership. At our core, our mission was, and remains, to equip next-generation practitioners with a comprehensive toolkit and repertoire of negotiation skills to enable leaders to tackle the world’s toughest problems.
In 2020, we changed our name to reflect a broader mission: creating a collaborative laboratory, a “collaboratory,” to study, innovate, practice, and discuss the art and science of negotiation and conflict resolution.
Within HKS, we redoubled our efforts to connect students with real-world practitioners, giving them opportunities to sharpen their interpersonal negotiation skills. And we advanced our programming, providing students with the opportunity to practice beyond the classroom and apply tailored frameworks to their unique challenges, while also engaging with frontline negotiators globally.
With the launch of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory, we took our mission outside the doors of HKS.
