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Business negotiations often fail; meanwhile, hostage negotiations have an incredibly high success rate—up to 94%. We spoke with former police psychologist and hostage negotiator George A. Kohlrieser, the Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at IMD Business School in Switzerland and the author of Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance (Jossey-Bass, 2006), about what business negotiators can learn from the high-risk enterprise of hostage negotiations.

Negotiators face a fundamental tension between cooperating and competing. New research suggests a way you can do both: Make multiple, equivalent simultaneous offers.

Rash, attention-getting threats may be U.S. president Donald Trump’s favorite negotiating tactic, but they have led to unmet goals and mistrust. To succeed, threats need to be delivered rarely and judiciously.

Do experts on negotiation practice what they preach? To find out, we spoke with Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian.