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Games & Negotiations

Ahmed Khalil Hafsi

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

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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...

4 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...

6 months ago
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Negotiating in the Age of LLMs: How to win when the counterparty runs on probability

I’ve been a tech nerd ever since I could type, so watching large language models evolve has felt like seeing the next species emerge.

Wright of Derby’s “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” (1768). Whether you’re the bird or the scient...

8 months ago
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Procurement vs. Sales Is Over: Design the Game So Cooperation Pays.

Procurement and sales in different customer-supplier organizations love to blame each other for the “race to the bottom.” Procurement squeezes, suppliers sandbag, quality dips and everyone hedges the uncertainties. It doesn’t have to be thi...

8 months ago
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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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