ABB (Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.)
Semester: 2011 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: David Weller, Claire Hankin, Zach Mason
ABB is a global provider of power and automation technologies that enables utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. ABB operates in approximately 100 countries and employs approximately 124,000 people worldwide. Engineering companies like ABB often deliver technically complex products, systems and services to its customers. Claims, which are common for… More
American Friends Service Committee
Semester: 2008 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution Advice, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Jim Kreen & Lande Spottswood
Develop a management model that honors institutional culture… More
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Semester: 2014 Spring
Project Type: Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Jonathan Canel, Ruchi Shah, Tucker Devoe
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is one of the nation’s preeminent academic medical centers. It has adopted the Communication, Apology, and Resolution (CARe) approach to resolving adverse medical events. HNMCP will assess how well patients are represented in this process and suggest various options for ideal models of representation.… More
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Semester: 2013 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Dispute System Design, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Sarah Paige, Michelle Goldring, and John Miller
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading federal agency implementing disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion activities in the United States and abroad. HNMCP will conduct a rigorous assessment of, and provide recommendations for, strengthening CDC’s conflict prevention and management infrastructure.… More
Consensus Building Institute
Semester: 2007 Spring
Project Type: Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Janie Kucera
Design a stakeholder dialogue model to help resolve land ownership disputes on the Western United States… More
Cornerstone Village CoHousing
Semester: 2011 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Dispute System Design, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: David Newman, Joel Knopf
Cornerstone Village Cohousing is an intentional residential community of 32 households in North Cambridge in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhood. With the acknowledgement that conflict is an inevitable part of working and living together, a plan for a conflict resolution committee was written into the bylaws, but… More
DC Office of the Ombudsman for Public Education
Semester: 2016 Fall
Project Type: Dispute System Evaluation, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Kelsey Curtis, Corey Linehan, and Sara Leiman
The District of Columbia Office of the Ombudsman for Public Education is an independent, neutral office that works to ensure equal access to education for the approximately 88,000 students attending District of Columbia Public Schools and Public Charter Schools. In pursuit of this mission, the Office helps individual students and their families resolve questions, concerns,… More
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Semester: 2012 Spring
Project Type: Facilitated Dialogue, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Karl Jun, Felicia Cote, and Theodore Hart
The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts has traditionally required congregations to cover 100% of the health insurance premiums of clergy and lay employees. This policy has been questioned of late and the conversation has become divisive, indicating that deeper issues than simply financial exist and are obstacles to good decision making. HNMCP students will facilitate a series of conversations to help surface the various interests, begin a deeper conversation about possible options, and produce a report for the wider community on its findings and analysis.… More
Everett Police Department
Semester: 2015 Fall
Project Type: Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Jenae Moxie, Sara Bellin, Carson Wheet
At a time when law enforcement agencies across the country are examining their interactions with the communities they serve, the Everett Police Department has enlisted HNMCP to conduct a stakeholder assessment of Everett youth and community members to identify any sources of conflict or tension and strategies for improving police-youth interaction going forward.… More
FAIR Fund/Dru Campaign
Semester: 2007 Spring
Project Type: Curriculum Development & Delivery, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Rory Van Loo and Sandra Vasher
Develop a guidebook and training for advocates of strong campus policies towards sexual violence… More
First Unitarian Society in Newton
Semester: 2011 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution Advice, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Kate Van Akin & Rose Yan
This project will partner HNMCP students with a local Unitarian Universalist congregation to design a new conflict management system for the congregation. The First Unitarian Society in Newton (FUSN) has a proud history of serving the spiritual needs of approximately 600 individuals in Newton, MA. Despite FUSN’s emphasis on creating a spiritually nurturing and socially… More
Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession and an AMLaw 100 Firm
Semester: 2012 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Resolution Advice, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Kay Lee, Rebecca Liu and Luke Marumba
The Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession (IILP) and an AmLaw 100 firm with over 1,100 lawyers across offices in Asia, Europe and the United States have recruited HNMCP to conduct a stakeholder assessment to better understand the firm’s current systems for handling internal disputes, disagreements, and misunderstandings that involve diversity and inclusion issues on race, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, and LGBT issues within the firm… More
Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru
Semester: 2013 Spring
Project Type: Dispute System Evaluation, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Daniel Holman & Mark Johnson
The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru (MEFP) manages the State Coordination and Response System for International Investment Disputes. The Response System supports and manages Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) cases and proceedings, as well as creating guidelines for arbitration provisions. The last decade has seen a considerable increase in the flows of foreign direct… More
Modria.com
Semester: 2013 Spring
Project Type: Dispute System Design, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Daniel Dykes & Xin Liu
Founded in 2011, Modria is a leading online dispute resolution services and technology company in the field of eCommerce and online payments. Modria believes that online dispute resolution (ODR) is the future of justice. It aims to change the way the world resolves disputes and leads the development of justice systems for the 21st century.… More
Mount Ida College
Semester: 2015 Fall
Project Type: Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Molly Doggett, Loryn Davis, & Aldel Brown
Mount Ida is enlisting HNMCP to assess campus stakeholders’ perceptions about the Sex and Gender-Based Misconduct Policy, then make recommendations for further improvement of the process outlined in the Policy and stakeholders’ future engagement with it.… More
National Forest Foundation
Semester: 2016 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Melissa Freeman and Benjamin Goldman
Uniting concerned communities, organizations and individuals, the NFF engages Americans in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million-acre National Forest System, as well as administering private gifts of funds and land for the benefit of the National Forests Over the past two decades, small groups of people with… More
North Shore Medical Center/Union Hospital
Semester: 2008 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Brian Friedman & Stephanie Singer
Conduct a stakeholder/conflict assessment for hospital patients… More
Office of New York City Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick
Semester: 2007 Spring
Project Type: Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Michael Blank and Jane Morrill
Conduct a stakeholder assessment of a larger building project in New York City… More
Office of New York City Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick
Semester: 2012 Fall
Project Type: Dispute System Design, Dispute System Evaluation, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Jon Enfield and Anna Gressel
New York City Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick’s office is looking at two areas of the operation of the New York City Comptroller’s Office: the way that it resolves legal claims against the City of New York, and its audit function. HNMCP will assess whether the City is spending the right amount of time litigating versus settling cases, determine whether the best processes are being employed, and will make recommendations on how best to improve the city’s conflict management systems. It will also provide a critical review of the audit process to consider whether there are ways to make the audit more results-driven and less confrontational, and will propose an improved conflict management system for disputes arising out of the audits.… More
OneVoice Movement
Semester: 2013 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Resolution Advice, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Sarah Kalin, Frédérique Couture-Carrier, and Jennifer Garnett
The OneVoice Movement is an Israeli-Palestinian parallel initiative seeking to build a two-state solution in the hope achieving a lasting peace for both peoples. HNMCP students will conduct a stakeholder assessment of businesses, think tanks, and NGO’s promoting conflict resolution in the region to determine how much mission-overlap they have and how they might better work together towards peace.… More