David Kreps is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at the Stanford Business School, where, over a forty year career, he has taught courses from Decision Making Under Uncertainty to Managerial Economics to Operations to Human Resource Management. A leading economic theorist, he is a past recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of six previous books, including Microeconomics for Managers, Game Theory and Economic Modeling, and Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers (with James Baron). He lives in Stanford, California.