Nile W. Hatch

Associate Professor
Jack R. Wheatley Fellow
Business Management, Department of

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Office: 619 TNRB
Phone: (801) 422-1723
Email: nile@byu.edu
Office hours: T Th, 2-3 pm

Expertise:
  • Buyer/Supplier Relationships
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Economics
  • Economics of Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Strategic management
  • Technology management
Research:
  • Technology and innovation strategy
  • Learning by doing as a source of competitive advantage
  • Optimal timing of transfer in new technology development
  • Role of modularity in design in planning the direction and timing of technology paths
  • Creation and management of knowledge in high technology firms
  • Integration of game theory and real options analysis in strategic decision-making
  • Agility as a source of competitive advantage
Education:
  • PHD, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
  • MS, Brigham Young University, 1989
  • BS, Brigham Young University, 1988
Group Affiliations:
  • Entrepreneurship - Primary
  • Strategy - Secondary
Selected Publications: Experience:
   Teaching
  • Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 2007
  • Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, 2000-2007
  • Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-2000
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, U.C. Berkeley, 1996
   Professional
  • Member, Academy of Management
  • Member, American Economics Association
  • Member, Strategic Management Society
  • Member, INFORMS
  • Editorial Board Service, International Journal of Strategic Change Management, 2006
  • Member, Teaching Committee of the Business & Public Policy Division of the Academy of Management, 2003
  • Member, Governors Technology Transfer Task Group, 2001
  • Coordinator:, Strategy Proseminar Series, University of Illinois, 1999-2000
  • Director:, Reassure America Life Insurance Company, 1998-2000
  • Director:, American Merchants Life Insurance Company, 1998-2000
  • Co-founder and co-coordinator:, Technology Interest Group, University of Illinois, 1996-2000
Awards:
  • Teaching Excellence Award , Marriott School , 2007
  • Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award (joint with Jeff Dyer) , Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management , 2004
  • Jack R. Wheatley Fellowship , Brigham Young University , 2001
  • Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students , University of Illinois , 1999
  • Best Paper Award Runner-up , Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management , 1997
  • Faculty Investigator , Alfred P. Sloan Foundation , 1996
  • Faculty Investigator , Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) , 1995
Languages:
  • Dutch