Paul Bracken

Paul Bracken is a professor of political science and business at Yale University. Professor Bracken grew up in Philadelphia. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University in 1971 and his PhD in Operations Research in 1982 from Yale University.[1][2]

Bracken is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, the Transformation Advisory Group of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, and advises other parts of the United States government and National Academy of Sciences Task Forces. At Yale he is a Fellow of Silliman College and a member of the Elizabethan Club. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut with his wife, Nanette, a practicing attorney.

Bracken teaches a large course in Yale College on Strategy, Technology and War, and in the School of Management he teaches a popular course on Business, Government and Globalization, which examines the changing structure of global business. He also teaches the new SOM course on Problem Framing, the required course on integrated management thinking for all entering MBA students. His research concerns international relations, national security, and the multinational corporation. Bracken participated in the 2010 Hertog Global Strategy Initiative, a high-level research program on nuclear proliferation. [1]

Bracken is also considered a respected thought leader in global competition and the strategic application of technology in business and defense.[3][4][5] His research and teaching focus on solutions for senior management as it deals with changing strategic developments under conditions of intense uncertainty.

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References

  1. ^ Yale School of Management - Faculty - Paul Bracken
  2. ^ Yale > Political Science > Faculty and staff
  3. ^ Strategic Foresight: A Practical Guide to Scenarios and Alternative Futures in Business
  4. ^ Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Assessment and Risk Management (with I. Bremmer and D. Gordon, ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2008
  5. ^ "Managing to Fail, Why Strategy is Disjointed," The American Interest, Fall 2007

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