John Hatfield is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, where he has been the Century Club Professor since 2019. He teaches undergraduate and MBA courses emphasizing how students can use ideas from economics to make better decisions as managers.

His work in matching theory has facilitated the design of many real-world mechanisms, including Federal Communications Commission spectrum auctions, kidney paired donation, and the redesign of the U.S. Army’s branching mechanisms for assigning cadets. Meanwhile, his work at the intersection of the theory of industrial organization and the fields of law and economics has advanced our understanding of anticompetitive practices in real estate agency, banking, and other markets. The interdisciplinary nature of Hatfield’s work has led to it being published in various journals of economics, law, political science, finance, computer science, and applied mathematics, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and The Journal of Finance.

Before joining McCombs, Hatfield was an assistant professor of political economy at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Hatfield earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and physics from the California Institute of Technology.