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
Massachusetts Eye & Ear
Semester: 2019 Spring
Project Type: Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Denise Schlickbernd & Parker White
Massachusetts Eye and Ear is a teaching hospital at Harvard Medical School that combines the expertise of highly specialized ophthalmology and otolaryngology physicians, audiologists, speech-language pathologists. The Division of Head and Neck Cancer Surgery is part of one of the largest head and neck oncology centers in New England. Informed consent is a critical and… More
Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration
Semester: 2019 Spring
Project Type: Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Swechhya Sangroula & Jacob Omorodion
The Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration (MOPC) is the statutory state office that focuses exclusively on assisting courts and public agencies access quality conflict resolution services and build evidence-based dispute resolution programs. MOPC is also the statutory administrator of the Community Mediation Center Grant Program, which provides state operational funding to qualified community mediation centers… 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
New Hampshire Court Improvement Project
Semester: 2019 Spring
Project Type: Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Ian Ferrell & Lucy Prather
The Court Improvement Project (CIP) of the New Hampshire Judicial Branch has worked since 1994 to improve court procedures and practices around child abuse/neglect cases. Currently, the CIP is working to develop a new set of protocols related to concurrent planning for use by judges, DCYF social workers, DCYF attorneys, birth parent attorneys, CASA GALs/GALs,… More
New Hampshire Judicial Branch
Semester: 2020 Fall
Project Type: Dispute System Evaluation, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Nicholas Urban and September McCarthy
The New Hampshire Judicial Branch has convened an interdisciplinary committee composed of representatives from all parts of the Court system. HNMCP will conduct a project to explore stakeholder experiences, approaches to, and perspectives on remote hearings and the role they may play in ensuring access to justice and serving as a dispute resolution option that courts could offer. Potential final products include recommendations, resources, and/or training materials to improve stakeholder use of and value gained from remote hearings.… More