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Games & Negotiations

Ahmed Khalil Hafsi

Negotiation, power, and value creation across deals, institutions, and geopolitics.

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Latest Issues

Strategic Silence and Negotiation Agents: Teach Your AI to Shut Up

Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back (Hammershøi): Nothing is happening. But also, something important is being decided.

This is a first article where I explore the topic of agentic engineering combined with negotiations, game theo...

7 days ago
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Stop Trying to Look Strong

The Waterseller of Seville (Velázquez)

Recently, over dinner, a friend told me what negotiating in Japan can feel like when the other side is louder and more assertive.

She’s Japanese. She works in consulting. She described three constrai...

2 months ago
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On Mandates

De Staalmeesters — Rembrandt (1662)

Most boards believe they delegate negotiations through clear mandates. In practice, mandates are often incomplete. Direction is given. Trade-offs are not resolved.

This shows up in large renewals, strat...

5 months ago
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Negotiating Outside the Room: How public scrutiny reshapes what agreements are possible.

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (1656)

When thinking about negotiations, many seasoned operators focus on what happens at the table: leverage, interests, bargaining power, and deal terms. They assume outcomes are shaped by what the two partie...

5 months ago
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Inside the 2015 Samsung–Elliott Merger Negotiations: When Structure Outweighs Strategy

일월오봉도 (Irworobongdo / Sun, Moon, Five Peaks) — Anonymous (Joseon dynasty) — 19th century to early 20th century

In negotiation analysis, we love talking about numbers, leverage, BATNAs, and strategy. But some negotiations aren’t decided by...

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    Negotiation, incentives, and market power. applied to industrials, supply chains, and geopolitics. Operator + ex-consultant. Based in Singapore.

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