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Jim Hatch

Professor, Finance-Economics & Organizational Behaviour

Education

  • BCom, Saskatchewan
  • MBA, McMaster
  • PhD, Michigan

Contact Information

Profile

Jim Hatch is a Professor of Finance at Richard Ivey School of Business. He received a B. Comm. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1964, an MBA from McMaster University in 1965, and a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1972. Currently he is teaching the core finance course in the MBA Program and an elective course in Health Sector Finance in the MBA Program. He is the leader of the annual tour of China by MBA students. In recent years he has received multiple awards for excellence in teaching.

Hatch has written many cases, largely in the areas of investments, financial management, entrepreneurial finance, health care and biotechnology. In addition, he has written a number of articles, books and monographs. These publications are primarily in the areas of investments, capital markets, growth companies and banking. He is on the Board of Directors of a venture capital fund, Board of the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Advisory Board and member of the Executive Committee of ICHIL, the Business Advisory Board of the Centre for Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics, member of the  CIHR-STP Program Advisory Committee, Editorial Board of the Case Research Journal, serves on an ad hoc committee of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and is a judge for the annual Canadian American Business Council Achievement Award.

Jim Hatch's current interests are in the areas of entrepreneurial finance, commercialization of health related technology and China. In particular he is interested in:

  • the financial challenges faced by small and medium sized firms that are growing rapidly or aspire to grow rapidly credit
  • decision making by banks
  • challenges facing the health sector,
  • the financing of early stage biotechnology companies, and
  • the culture and economics of China.

Teaching

  • Corporate Finance
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Biotechnology Finance
  • Health Sector Finance

Selected Publications

  • Foerster, Stephen, Dunbar, Craig, Hatch, James E., Shaw, David C. and Larry Wynant, Cases in Financial Management, Fourth Edition, Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, 2003.
  • Eggers, John H., David C. Shaw, James E. Hatch, and Al Mikalachki, Cases in Entrepreneurship: A Canadian Perspective, Prentice-Hall, Toronto, 2001.
  • Hatch, James E. and J. Zweig "Strategic flexibility: The key to growth", Ivey Business Journal, March/April 2001.
  • Hatch, James E. and J. Zweig "The stuff entrepreneurs are made of", Ivey Business Journal, November/December 2000.
  • Hatch, James E. and G. McKay "Assessing Technology-Driven Firms", Canadian Banker, March/April 1996.
  • Hatch, James E. and Larry Wynant, Canadian Commercial Lending: A Guide To Credit Decision Making, 2nd ed., Carswell, Toronto, Ontario, 1995.
  • Wynant, L. and J.E. Hatch, Banks and Small Business Borrowers, London, Ontario: The Western Business School, The University of Western Ontario, 1991.
  • Hatch, James E. and L. Wynant "A Complex Relationship", Canadian Banker, Spring 1991.
  • Hatch, James E.; Ford, John and Larry Wynant, Handbook of Commercial Lending, Sheshunoff Information Services Inc., Austin, Texas, l989.
  • Hatch, James E. and Robert W. White, "Anatomy of a Stock Market Crash: The Case of October 1987", Canadian Investment Review, Spring 1989.
  • Hatch, James E. and Robert W. White, Canadian Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation: 1950-1987, The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1988.
  • Hatch, James E. and Michael J. Robinson, Investment Management in Canada, Second Edition, Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, 1988.
  • Hatch, James E. and Robert W. White, "A Canadian Perspective on Canadian and United States Capital Market Returns: 1950-1983", Financial Analysts Journal, May/June 1986.

Research/Course Development

  • Entrepreneurial Finance Course
  • Health Sector MBA Stream

Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Venture Capital
  • Banking
  • Small Business Finance
  • Financing Growth
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Sector
 

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