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The Art of Science

Mills Scofield

At first glance it is obvious that my work is highly influenced by science. It is influenced by the master pioneers in this genre like Haeckel, Hawkins, & Audubon, who inspire my work. My twenty years of work as a scientist has lead me to the conviction that science is subjective, based on context, and completely dynamic.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

“Many of us who have wound up teaching strategy and doing research in strategy grew up learning game theory from Tirole’s textbook,” says Jan Rivkin, the chair of the strategy unit at HBS. Game theoretic thinking certainly influenced the strategy field, and Tirole was as influential as anyone in that shift.”.

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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. The ensuing waves of globalization and technological progress brought great benefits to American firms and consumers. Competitiveness Project. In the Minneapolis-St.