The Language of Game Theory

Adam Brandenburger is the J P Valles Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, New York University. He was a professor at Harvard Business School from 1987 to 2002. Adam Brandenburger works in the areas of game theory and, more recently, quantum information, and applies his work in game theory to the area of business strategy. Within game theory, he was one of the pioneers in developing what has come to be called "epistemic game theory" an approach that studies the effect of how players in a game reason about one another (including their reasoning about other players' reasoning) on how the game is played. He also developed (with Harborne Stuart) the concept of a "biform game" a model of strategy as moves that affect the amount of value created, and its division, among the players in a game. His book Co-opetition (with Barry Nalebuff, Doubleday, 1996) applies this idea to business strategy. Recently, he has worked on the implications for game theory of giving players access to quantum rather than classical information resources. Adam Brandenburger is an Associated Faculty Member at the Center for Data Science, New York University, and is currently Vice Dean for Innovation at the NYU Stern School of Business. He received his BA, MPhil, and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge.