When the telephone was invented the first networks were private, typically between rich individuals and their industrial interests. Pretty quickly, though, people wanted to be able to talk to each other without the need to worry about multiple networks and, of course, we regard this as a basic...
SharePoint's growth is largely based on simple economics -- organizations realized they can sunset legacy ECM apps and save money
He received his undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Finance.
Of course, fields related to modern business do borrow from science. The field of economics borrows from thermodynamics