Yoo-Taek Lee

Senior Lecturer, Operations and Technology Management

  • Title Senior Lecturer, Operations and Technology Management
  • Office 668
  • Phone 617-353-4173

Professor Yoo-Taek Lee has many years of experience in teaching, scholarly research, and consulting. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in the Operations and Technology Management Department and a faculty director of Samsung Tesco Round Table at Boston University. Prior to joining Boston University, Professor Lee taught at Babson College as an Assistant Professor and Emmanuel College as an Associate Professor. Professor Lee also serves International Network of Korean Entrepreneurs Boston branch office as a Chair by supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for their global expansion strategy. He teaches various courses for executive, graduate and undergraduate programs. His innovative courses include Entrepreneurship for Execution that focuses on exploring entrepreneurial approaches in operating new/existing business and Asia Field Seminar that brings MBA students together to visit best practiced companies in Asia such as Toyota, Denso, Fuji-Xerox, MK Taxi, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, POSCO, Samsung Tesco, and selected competitive SMEs. He also teaches Lean Six Sigma, Global Supply Chain, and Operations Management courses. Professor Lee’s research interests include corporate entrepreneurship, global supply chain management, corporate social responsibility, and capability upgrading. His recent research project includes the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, development strategies of small and medium-sized suppliers in a global supply chain, and the capability upgrading at the firm level that focuses on how small and medium-sized enterprises sustain their competitiveness in global supply chains. His research has been published in such scholarly journals as Journal of Supply Chain Management, the International Journal of Information System and Supply Chain Management, and the International Journal of Data Analysis and Information System. Professor Lee recently published his second book, Platform of the New Growth: Corporate Social Responsibility written in Korean (May 2012). The book proposes a systematic approach for developing a socially responsible supply chain that improves the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility activities.

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