Barry Nalebuff

Barry Nalebuff

Professor, Yale School of Management

Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management at the Yale School of Management.  Professor Nalebuff has written on a wide variety of subjects ranging from strategy to pricing, bidding to bargaining, and innovation to incentives. He is an expert on game theory and has written extensively on its application for managers.  His most recent book, The Art of Strategy, is an update of the best-selling Thinking Strategically, which explains the fundamentals of game theory using real world examples.

Professor Nalebuff's work on strategy focuses on the fundamental duality in business—the conflict between cooperating to create a pie and competing to divide it up—which he presents in Co-opetition. His book, Why Not?, focuses on providing a framework for problem solving and ingenuity. His work on product bundling was featured in the European Union's investigation of the proposed GE-Honeywell merger.

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Game Theorist Barry Nalebuff on open-source idea sharing.
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Barry Nalebuff on starting Honest Tea, a bottled organic tea company.
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It’s not just about solving a particular game, it’s about making sure you’re playing the right game, according to Barry Nalebuff.
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Barry Nalebuff shares his thoughts on cooperation and competition in the business world.
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Barry Nalebuff explains game theory’s most famous corollary.
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Yale’s Barry Nalebuff discusses game theory’s myriad applications.
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Understanding game theory and probability-based strategy can help you win on the felt.
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Barry Nalebuff on the problem of the third party candidate and what the French Revolution can tell us about campaign strategy.
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Barry Nalebuff tells us how game theory can be applied to the economic crisis and where he sees the economy in the next few years.
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Barry Nalebuff explains the basis of Game Theory.