New Current Events Exercises Announced
Housemates and COVID Conversations (Kira Atkinson, Laura Rees) is a multi-party, multi-issue negotiation is set in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic. This exercise involves three university housemates negotiating a living agreement as they return to campus during the pandemic. It includes a mix of distributive, integrative, and compatible issues. Housemates are each provided a unique points system to calculate their individual gains but are not provided all options for all issues; thus, there is “missing” information across roles that participants must discover and address on their own.
A Global Pandemic: The COVID-19 Vaccine Negotiation (Chengyi Lin, Li Huang, Cynthia Wang) is a five-party, multi-issue negotiation. Three sets of governmental agencies are meeting with two types of vaccine suppliers to discuss the vaccine doses that they would like to purchase in 2020 and 2021. This exercise is based on the actual state of the COVID-19 pandemic in November 2020 and the projected COVID-19 vaccine supply at the time.
Heed the Market (Edward Smith) is an online simulation conducted in three rounds that puts students in the role of hiring manager for a rapidly growing startup seeking to hire more candidates. Topics covered include salary offers, implicit bias, and the impact of market indicators in decision making. The goal for students is to maximize the number salary offers accepted by the candidates but limit the financial impact on the startup. This exercise also includes an instructor walkthrough.
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