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Jim was born and raised in Meaford, Ontario, Canada and attended Western University in London where he obtained his B.E.Sc. degree (Civil Engineering) in 1965 and his MBA in 1967. In 1973 he received his doctorate in organizational behaviour from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
Jim teaches Operations Management in all the teaching programs at the Ivey Business School and is a former chairman of the Honors Business Administration Program. During a leave of absence from Ivey in 1988-89, he served as Dean of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan. He has designed and conducted training and development programs for several large Canadian corporations as well as universities and government agencies. He has taught on various development programs in Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, Brazil, Kenya, Spain, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Barbados, Israel, Switzerland, Ireland, South Africa, Hungary, France, England, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Poland, Germany, Columbia and Ecuador. Jim is especially interested in the management challenges at the operating level and issues surrounding implementation.