Jim Collins
Business researcher and author
Jim Collins is an American researcher and author who studies how companies grow and last. He wrote Good to Great and Built to Last.
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American Born 1958 in Boulder, United States
About Jim Collins
Jim Collins was born in 1958. His career in research and teaching started at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995 he set up a management research lab in Boulder, Colorado, and he has worked there with CEOs and their senior teams. His books include Good to Great, Built to Last and Great by Choice, and they have sold more than 11 million copies worldwide in total. Ideas from his work, such as the Hedgehog Concept, the Flywheel and BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals), have entered the vocabulary of leadership. He earned both his undergraduate degree in mathematical sciences and his MBA at Stanford. In 2012 and 2013 he spent two years at the United States Military Academy at West Point, serving as its Class of 1951 Chair for leadership study.