Upcoming Activity

Yale Club of Houston Annual Dinner

Featuring Yale Professor Barry Nalebuff

Why Not?

Event Details:

Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Briar Club, 2603 Timmons

6:15 Cocktails (1 hour open bar)

7:00 Dinner

7:30 Presentation

Cost:

$40 Yale club members and guests

$35 Young Alums 1996 - 2006

$50 Non-members

RSVP by May 4th by sending your check and attendee names to:

Yale Club of Houston

4810 Florence

Bellaire, TX  77401

or by emailing Stuart Hudson

Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor of Economics and Management at Yale School of Management.  He has taught at Yale since 1990.  An expert on game theory, he has written extensively on its application to business strategy.  He is the coauthor of Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life.  The first popular book on Game Theory, Thinking Strategically is used in classrooms worldwide, with over 250,000 copies in print.  Nalebuff's second book, Co-opetition, applies game theory to business strategy, with an emphasis on the duality of creating and capturing value. The Yale Club presentation builds from his new book with Yale Law Professor Ian Ayres, Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small.

Professor Nalebuff has a regular why-not column in Forbes.  In addition to his academic work, he has extensive experience consulting with multinational firms.  Professor Nalebuff serves on the boards of Nationwide Insurance, Bear Stearns Financial Products, and is the chairman and co-founder of Honest Tea, a company that sell ready to drink iced tea that actually tastes like tea.  A Rhodes Scholar and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Nalebuff earned his doctorate at Oxford University.

Talk description

The Why Not? talk will present the problem solving tools from the book, Why Not?.  This is problem solving with a higher purpose: to teach creativity and improve the world.  Many people think creativity is a black box.  We take the contrary view that creativity can be taught.  We offer several tools and show how use them by example. The talk will illustrate the process of problem solving and the implementation of the idea in real time. We aim to help teach and inspire people to be more creative individuals and more effective entrepreneurs.  Why not, indeed.