Barry J. Nalebuff (born July 11, 1958) is an American businessman, business theorist, and writer. He is a Milton Steinbach Professor of Management at

Yale School of Management The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. The school awards the Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA for Executives ...

and author who specializes in business strategy and

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. His published books include ''Thinking Strategically'' and ''The Art of Strategy.'' Nalebuff's class on negotiation has over 67,000 active learners through Coursera and has the second-highest net promoter score on the platform. He has a semi-regular column in ''

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'' with Ian Ayres called "Why Not?" Nalebuff also has multiple entrepreneurial ventures. He was a co-founder of

Honest Tea Honest Tea (U.S.) is a bottled organic tea company based in Bethesda, Maryland. It was founded in 1998 by Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company History Honest Tea was founded in 1998 ...

and Kombrewcha. He serves on the board of Q Drinks (started by his former student Jordan Silbert), Calicraft Beer, and AGP Glass.

Education

Nalebuff graduated in 1976 from the

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and in 1980 from MIT with degrees in economics and mathematics. He then earned his master's degree and doctorate in economics from

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on a

Rhodes Scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

Academic career

Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Nalebuff was a member of the Junior Society of Fellows at

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and worked as an assistant professor at

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Books

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References

External links

Bio of Nalebuff
on Yale University's website
Story of Nalebuff's co-founding Honest Tea
on Honest Tea's website
Co-opetition
with Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff
Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
with Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff
Forbes: Why Not?
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