Hudson Institute history

Kahn eventually expanded the use of scenario planning from defense policy work to economics, and in 1962 became the first analyst to predict the rise of Japan as the world's second-largest economy.

In 1970, The Emerging Japanese Superstate, elaborating Kahn's predictions on the rise of Japan, was published.

Following Kahn's sudden death on July 7, 1983, Hudson was restructured.

Following Kahn’s untimely death, Hudson moved its headquarters to Indianapolis in 1984.

In 1987, Mitch Daniels, a former aide to Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) and President Ronald Reagan, was appointed CEO of Hudson Institute.

In addition, Hudson played a crucial role in engineering Wisconsin’s Welfare-to-Work program in 1995, and its once-supported Modern Red Schoolhouse Project has been implemented by dozens of schools across the Midwest.

At the initiative of Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, Hudson designed the "Wisconsin Works" welfare-to-work program that was adopted nationwide in the 1996 federal welfare-reform legislation signed by President Bill Clinton.

Hudson produced unconventional works such as The Year 2000, in which Kahn and Anthony Wiener extrapolated into the future, and The Emerging Japanese Superstate, which projected Japan's economic success.

On June 1, 2004 Hudson Institute moved its operations to Washington, D.C., in an effort to focus its research on foreign policy and national security issues.

Our CEO, Pamela McLean, equipped with current research and evidence based theories, wrote The Completely Revised Handbook of Coaching in 2013, articulating the essential elements on the journey to mastery as a leadership coach.

In 2016, Hudson moved from its McPherson Square headquarters to a custom-built office space on Pennsylvania Avenue, near the United States Capitol and the White House.

In 2020, it was paid nearly half a million dollars to produce reports and workshops on behalf of the Defense Department.