Exponential Improvement Through Collaboration

Alan Eli Willner

Successful collaborations built on strong foundations can last decades, often bringing significant benefits.

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A key ingredient to my professional success and happiness has been my wonderful collaborators—contemporaries, bosses and students from a variety of institutions. We have learned about each other and bonded on a personal level by working together, perhaps on a research project, a conference, a committee, an award nomination or even a birthday party.

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