Author

Books by Jim Collins

Jim Collins is an American researcher, author, and lecturer focused on what makes companies endure and thrive. He is the author or co-author of several influential business books, including Built to Last (with Jerry Porras), How the Mighty Fall, and Great by Choice. Collins spent much of his early career on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business before founding a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Good to Great, published in 2001, drew on five years of systematic research across more than a thousand companies and has sold over four million copies worldwide.