About the HATTEN
Institute of Small Business

Dr. Tim Hatten has built a career exploring entrepreneurship and sharing discoveries with others – including authorship of top-selling college textbook Small Business Management: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage, 7th ed.

Growing up on a farm in MO, Tim Hatten learned to work until the work was done – regardless what the clock said. In his family farm equipment and automotive dealerships, he learned how critical customer service is to a business. In vocational auto mechanics program and many General Motors training courses, he learned a trade. In university programs all the way through PhD, he learned the body of knowledge of how businesses are started and ran.

Now, in a program unlike any other, you can combine business application and academics without getting an entire degree.

The Hatten Institute of Small Business takes people with training in skilled trades (from cosmetology to welding, from auto body to graphic design, from gunsmithing to health sciences, and many others) through every facet of building a business. The competency-based program provides content and application as you move from one facet to another honing skills, not worrying about grades.

You get university-level content interacting directly with the best-selling author (without university-level prices) and roll-up-your-sleeves application.