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The Art of Science

Mills Scofield

I wore the hat of fisheries biologist, science teacher, environmental scientist, and even worked on an extraordinary robotics project , but in the end while the science jobs paid the bills, what I was really passionate about was painting. Of course, as with most rare species discovered these days, the current status is not a pretty one.

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How Would You Restore U.S. Competitiveness?

Harvard Business Review

Rivkin, how to better enable companies operating in the U.S. "to Competitiveness project spearheaded by Porter and Rivkin, and by experts we've invited to participate in the HBR Insight Center on American Competitiveness. All those articles and blog posts are of course open for comments, and there have been some great ones.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project. Business has a key role to play in restoring America’s commons, but of course it can’t do so alone. That needs to change.