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Negotiating Under Power Asymmetry — The Underdog Playbook

Six-session negotiation simulation in which a 47-person Costa Rican renewable-energy developer (Helio Verde Solutions) prepares its playbook for a 20-year power-purchase agreement with a Fortune-100 hyperscaler counterparty (NorthernArc Cloud Services).

6 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

Six-session negotiation simulation in which a 47-person Costa Rican renewable-energy developer (Helio Verde Solutions) prepares its playbook for a 20-year power-purchase agreement with a Fortune-100 hyperscaler counterparty (NorthernArc Cloud Services).

Players design BATNA improvement, fairness-norming through objective criteria, switching-cost tying, calibrated regulatory leverage, deadline discipline, and price-line discipline simultaneously, while managing the principal-agent gap that surfaces in Round 5 when the CEO discloses a private off-script concession.

Closer of MBA Track 3C — Negotiation; inherits 1420 (mutual gains), 1421 (distributive) and 1422 (multi-party) and stress-tests them in the structurally hardest case: the negotiation where the other side appears to hold all the cards.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 6 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Price Stance ($/MWh)
  • BATNA Tracks Active
  • Switching-Cost Tying Moves
  • Fairness-Norming Anchors
  • Regulatory / Third-Party Lever
  • Meeting Cadence

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Playbook Decisions for This Session
  • Session History

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Negotiation & Influence.

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