Month: December 2011

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BY Jim CollinsTue Dec 20, 2011 Great businesses succeed by motivating people with the straight facts. There are four ways to get the truth out there. We conclude our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top...

BY Kevin OhannessianThu Dec 22, 2011 With the economic downturn, can companies still become great? We continue our examination of the business book Good to Great with an interview of author Jim Collins. What was the impetus for...

Ten years ago, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created its OpenCourseWare project, giving free access to college course materials was a revolutionary concept. Now, the school plans to take the spirit of OCW to the...

Thanks to the popularity of the Khan Academy’s simple video lessons, millions of people around the globe have learned everything from how to simplify fractions to how to understand a credit default swap. But what if...