Adam Brandenburger
NYU Stern School of Business,
44 West 4th Street,
New York, NY 10012
adam.brandenburger_DELETE_THIS_@stern.nyu.edu
Adam holds appointments at New York University as J.P. Valles Professor at the Stern School of Business, Distinguished Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering, Faculty Director of the NYU Shanghai Program on Creativity + Innovation, and Global Network Professor. He was a professor at Harvard Business School from 1987 to 2002. He received his B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. Adam researches in the areas of game theory, information theory, and business strategy.
Selected Publications
Selected Refereed Articles
Coordination Via Delay: Theory and Experiment
By Ye Jin, Zhen Zhou, and Adam Brandenburger, Games and Economic Behavior
2023
Rényi Entropy, Signed Probabilities, and the Qubit
With Pierfrancesco La Mura and Stuart Zoble, Entropy
2022
Divisive Normalization is an Efficient Code for Multivariate Pareto-Distributed Environments
By Stefan Bucher and Adam Brandenburger, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022
OBSERVERS OF QUANTUM SYSTEMS CANNOT AGREE TO DISAGREE
By Patricia Contreras-Tejada, Giannicola Scarpa, Aleksander Kubicki, Adam Brandenburger, and Pierfrancesco La Mura, Nature Communications
2021
THE IMPLICATIONS OF FINITE-ORDER REASONING
With Alex Danieli and Amanda Friedenberg, Theoretical Economics
2021
SELL/BUY BUNDLING
With Barry Nalebuff, CPI Antitrust Chronicle
2021
Choice-Theoretic Foundations of the Divisive Normalization Model
with Kai Steverson, Adam Brandenburger, and Paul Glimcher, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
2019
Axioms for the Boltzmann Distribution
with Kai Steverson, Foundations of Physics
2019
A Canonical Hidden-Variable Space
with H. Jerome Keisler, Annals Of Pure and Applied Logic
2018
Where Do Great Strategies Come Really Come From?
Strategy Science
2017
Team Decision Problems with Classical and Quantum Signals
with Pierfrancesco La Mura, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
2016
The Sheaf-Theoretic Structure of Non-Locality and Contextuality
with Samson Abramsky, New Journal of Physics
2011
Admissibility in Games
with Amanda Friedenberg and H. Jerome Keisler, Econometrica
2008
Biform Games
with Harborne Stuart, Management Science
2007
Value-Based Business Strategy
with Harborne Stuart, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
1996
Epistemic Conditions for Nash Equilibrium
with Robert Aumann, Econometrica
1995
Hierarchies of Beliefs and Common Knowledge
with Eddie Dekel, Journal of Economic Theory
1993
Online Appendices
Coordination Via Delay: Theory and Experiment -- Online Appendix
by Ye Jin, Zhen Zhou, and Adam Brandenburger
2022
Choice-Theoretic Foundations of the Divisive Normalization Model: Online Appendix
with Kai Steverson, Adam Brandenburger, and Paul Glimcher
2018
Intrinsic Correlation in Games: Online Appendix
with Amanda Friedenberg
2007
Biform Games: Additional Online Material
with Harborne Stuart
2006
Selected Book Chapters/Conference Proceedings/Other
RETHINKING NEGOTIATION: A SMARTER WAY TO SPLIT THE PIE
By Barry Nalebuff and Adam Brandenburger, Harvard Business Review
2021
The Rules of Co-opetition
with Barry Nalebuff, Harvard Business Review
2021
AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT IN A NON-CLASSICAL WORLD
with Patricia Contreras-Tejada. Pierfrancesco la Mura, Giannicola Scarpa,
and Kai Steverson, proceedings of LFDSN 2019
2019
Strategy Needs Creativity
Harvard Business Review
2019
FIBER PRODUCTS OF MEASURES AND QUANTUM FOUNDATIONS
WITH H. JEROME KEISLER, LOGIC & ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES IN QUANTUM COMPUTING
& INFORMATION
2016
NO-SIGNALLING IS EQUIVALENT TO FREE CHOICE OF MEASUREMENTS
WITH SAMSON ABRAMSKY AND ANDREI SAVOCHKIN, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC
2014
AN OPERATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF NEGATIVE PROBABILITIES AND NO-SIGNALLING MODELS
WITH SAMSON ABRAMSKY, HORIZONS OF THE MIND
2014
USE OF A CANONICAL HIDDEN-VARIABLE SPACE IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
WITH H. JEROME KEISLER, COMPUTATION, LOGIC, GAMES, AND QUANTUM FOUNDATIONS
2013
Books
2014
Recent Unpublished Articles
Reevaluating the Shapley Value: A New Justification and New Extensions
with Barry Nalebuff
September 2022
SYMMETRY AND THE SIXTH FORCE: THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF COMPLEMENTS
With Barry Nalebuff
June 2022
Two Approaches to Iterated Reasoning in Games
with Amanda Friedenberg and Terri Kneeland
December 2020
Using 'Proof-of-Presence' to Coordinate
with Kai Steverson
September 2020
January 2020
Axioms for Renyi Entropy for Signed Measures
with Pierfrancesco La Mura
July 2019
Cooperative Games on Infinite Trees
with H. Jerome Keisler and Paula Miret
December 2018
Quantum-Assisted Obervatories in Space: Real-Time Coherence in Space Telescope Arrays via Shared Quantum States
with Pierfrancesco La Mura and Giannicola Scarpa
September 2018
A Test for Artificial Empathy
with Cheryl Loh
May 2018
Thinking About Thinking and Its Cognitive Limits
with Xiaomin Li
August 2015
Are Admissibility and Backward Induction Consistent?
with Amanda Friedenberg
February 2014
The Invisible Hand -- Invisible Because It Does Not Exist?
with Harborne Stuart
December 2013
Slides
Recent Courses
Course: Creativity Considered
Syllabus coming soon
2023
Course: The Strategist
Syllabus
2023
Course: An Introduction to Game Theory
A Brief History
Two-By-Two Games
Two-Player Zero-Sum Games
Levels of Reasoning
Cooperative Game Theory
Marginal Contribution -- A Case Study
Game-Theoretic Analysis of Economic Efficiency
Game Trees
2017