page_title: Paul Bracken
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context_page_description: Paul Bracken is a professor of political science and business at Yale University.
  Bracken is a respected thought leader in global competition and the strategic application of technology in business and defense. His research and teaching focus on solutions for senior management as it deals with a changing strategic environment and conditions of intense uncertainty. He is a leading teacher in executive education and has run programs for companies in finance, technology, retail, and health care. He is also a frequent teacher at One Day University on topics such as Problem Framing in Business, the Future of the Corporation, Big Business and Democracy, and the Second Nuclear Age.
  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served on the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School and the U.S. Naval War College; and an advisory group for Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has been a visiting scholar at the CIA and Beijing University; and has consulted with many other branches of the US Government.
context_section_description: Paul Bracken (born March 12, 1948) is a professor of political science and business at Yale University.
  Bracken is a respected thought leader in global competition and the strategic application of technology in business and defense.  His research and teaching focus on solutions for senior management as it deals with a changing strategic environment and conditions of intense uncertainty. He is a leading teacher in executive education and has run programs for companies in finance, technology, retail, and health care.  He is also a frequent teacher at One Day University on topics such as Problem Framing in Business, the Future of the Corporation, Big Business and Democracy, and the Second Nuclear Age.
  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served on the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School and the U.S. Naval War College; and an advisory group for Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has been a visiting scholar at the CIA and Beijing University; and has consulted with many other branches of the US Government.  He is a consultant to the Office of Net Assessment, and Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Advisors at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
  Bracken is included in Princeton Review’s book on The Best 300 Professors in the United States.   He also consults with several private equity firms, sovereign wealth firms, insurance companies, banks, and technology companies, and to the RAND Corporation.
  He is the author of six books on global business, warning and risk, national security and world order and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek, and Foreign Affairs. 
  Prior to joining Yale, he was on the senior staff of the Hudson Institute for 10 years, where he worked closely with its founder, Herman Kahn, on futurology projects in business and defense.  He directed the management consulting arm of the institute. At Yale he is a Fellow of Silliman College, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and the Yale MacMillan Center. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut with his wife, Nanette, an attorney. He enjoys golf and ham radio (K3SOC). 
  Professor Bracken grew up in Philadelphia. He received his Bachelor of Science (Engineering) degree from Columbia University and his PhD in Operations Research from Yale University.
caption: Paul Bracken in 2016
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