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27 Negot. J. 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/nejo27 and id is 1 raw text is: Managing Editor's Note Negotiation Journal The case study is one of the most important items in the negotiation instructor's toolbox. Hundreds of them have been written and are taught every year in negotiation and mediation courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels around the world. But what makes a good case study and how do you write one? It's easy enough to teach the case and its lessons without really considering the painstaking work that goes into its production. Jim Sebenius takes a close, instructive look at negotiation case studies in this issue of Negotiation Journal. In his article Developing Superior Negotiation Case Studies, he walks readers through the process of finding negotiations whose stories illustrate key negotiation concepts and then shaping the narrative into something that supports the instructors' pedagogical goals. Negotiation case writers looking for the perfect negotiation to write about may find themselves confronted with too many choices, a phenom- enon that can hobble decision making, writes Michael Wheeler in this issue's review essay. Wheeler considers two books on decision making, Sheena Iyengar's The Art of Choosing and Gary Klein's Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making. lyengar looks at the dilemma of choice in a world in which having so many choices can leave us paralyzed and in which culture often dictates our attitudes toward choice. Klein applies psychological insights to his examination of decision making and finds that people make more decisions than they even realize - actions that we believe we are taking automatically and intu- itively, he asserts, are often actually the result of complex decisions made through a process of pattern recognition. And, of course, choice overload, culture, pattern recognition, and intuition are all, Wheeler reminds us in his essay, topics with significant relevance for the practice of negotiation. Choices and control are things that the children of divorce often feel that they have been robbed of. Limiting the damage and disruption that high-conflict divorces inflict on children is sometimes the job of a person known as a parenting coordinator. Parenting coordinators can be hired by divorcing parents or assigned through courts. Their charge is to reduce family strife and help the parents better manage their relationship for the sake of their children. They can act simultaneously as arbitrators, Negotiation Journal January 2011 1

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