Yoo-Taek Lee
Associate Professor of Management
D.B.A., M.B.A., M.A., Boston University; B.A., Hong-Ik University (Korea)
Office hours: Monday and Tuesday 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Office: Library Ground, Room 08-E
Phone: 617-735-9873
E-mail: leey3@emmanuel.edu
Academic Interests
Professor Yoo-Taek Lee has many years of experience in teaching, scholarly research, and consulting. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Management and Economics Department at Emmanuel College. Prof. Lee also a chair of International Network of Korean Entrepreneurs Boston branch office supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for their global expansion strategy. Prior to join Emmanuel College, Professor Lee taught at Babson College as an assistant professor and served as a faculty directly of Korea Entrepreneurship and Management Research Lab. at Babson College.
Current Research
Professor Lee's research interests include corporate entrepreneurship, global supply chain management, supplier development strategy, 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, the capability upgrading at the firm level that focuses on how small and medium-sized enterprises sustain their competitiveness in global supply chains.
Courses Taught
He is currently teaching Operations Management and Introduction to Business courses at Emmanuel College. Prior to joining Emmanuel College, he taught various programs at the executive level and graduate level. His innovative course includes Entrepreneurship for Execution that focuses on exploring entrepreneurial approach in operating new/existing business and Asia Field Seminar that brings about 25 graduate students to Asian countries (e.g., Japan, Korea, and Thailand) to visit best practice companies such as Toyota, Denso, Fuji-Xerox, MK Taxi, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, POSCO, Samsung Tesco, and selected competitive SMEs.
Professional Highlights
Prior to his D.B.A. studies, Professor Lee worked at Samsung in Korea. His work experience also includes a research associate appointment at Boston University Asian Management Center and the development and management of executive education programs for Asian companies such as Sanyo, Samsung, LG, Daewoo, SK, and for non-profit organizations including the Federation of Korean Industries and Ministry of Commerce in China. Additionally, he has produced more than 65 company best practice reports of Motorola, IBM, Texas Instruments, GE, Federal Express, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and Toyota. Based on his experience from the best practice firms and research project, he is actively participating in providing advices to practitioners through consulting projects and speech to executives in various firms such as Samsung Electronics, Homedepot, Wilshire State Bank, PTC, Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia, Bank Rakyat Malaysia, and Incheon International Airport, Shinhan Credit Card, Samsung Tesco Homeplus and so on.
Awards/Honors Received
- Certificate of Appreciation, UC Berkeley UC Martial Arts Program, 2010
- Certificate of Completion, Babson College Innovation in Blended Learning Faculty Fellows Program, Babson College, 2007
- Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, Member, 2007
- Certificate of Appreciation, Korea American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network, 2007
- Certificate of Appreciation, Executive MBA Program, Boston University School of Management, 2005
- Achievement Award, The 13th Annual North American Research/Teaching Symposium on Purchasing and Supply Management, 2002
Grants
- New Paradigm Institute Research Grant, Seoul, Korea, 2011 ($10,000)
- Korea Management Association Consulting Research Grant, Seoul, Korea, 2010 ($15,000)
- US Taekwondo Education Foundation, Research Fund Gift, Wilbraham, MA, 2009-2010 ($10,000)
- The Glavin Center for Global Management Research Fund, Babson College, 2008-2009
- The Glavin Center for Global Management Research Fund, Babson College, 2007-2008
- Babson Faculty Research Fund, Babson College, 2007-2008
- BK21 Visiting Professor Scholarship at Yonsei University, Fall 2007
- Babson Faculty Research Fund, Babson College, 2006-2007
- Doctoral Consortium Participants Research Grant, Supply Chain Management Institute, Bowling Green State University, Doctoral Consortium at Academy of Management, 2004
- The Federations of Korean Industries Research Grant, Analysis of Global Supply Chain Structure for Apparel Industry, 2004 ($1,000 one time)
- Kwan Jeong Scholarship Award, Kwan Jeong Educational Foundation, Korea, 2002 - 2004 ($45,000 per year)
- Daewoo Scholarship Award, Boston University School of Management, 1998 - 2001 ($30,000 per year)
Significant Publications and Reports
Refereed Journal Publication
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, "Competing on Entrepreneurial Management Innovation: The Fact-based Management System of Homeplus," forthcoming in The Journal of Creativity and Innovation, Seoul, Korea, 2011, published in English
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, Ryu, Sung-Yong, and McKone-Sweet, Kathleen E., "The Role of Complementary Resources in the Development of E-supply Chains and the Firm's Performance: An Exploratory Analysis of Secondary Data," forthcoming in International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems, 2011
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, "A Co-word Analysis of Supply Chain Studies," The International Journal of Data Analysis and Information System, Vol.2, No.2, 2010, pp. 97-108
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, "The Missing Link between Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitiveness: Two Cases in South Korea," The Journal of Creativity and Innovation, Seoul, Korea, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2010, pp. 55-84, published in English
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, Kim, Young Soo, Rice, Mark, and Ko, Jong Nam "On the Influence of Corporate Entrepreneurship and Key Elements of a Business System on Radical Innovation: The Korean vs. U.S. Experience," Business Education, Seoul, Korea, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2010, pp. 221-243, published in English
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, Kim, Young Soo, and Rice, Mark, "An Assessment of the Perceived Impact of Corporate Entrepreneurship Characteristics and Key Elements of a Corporate Business System on the Development of a Radical Innovation Management System: The Korean vs. U.S. Experience," One-page summary, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2009 Issue
- Lee, Yoo-Taek and McKone-Sweet, Kathleen E., "Development and Analysis of a Supply Chain Strategy Taxonomy," Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol.45, No.3, 2009, pp. 3-24
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, Kim, Jay, and Miller, Jeffrey, "An Exploratory Study to Identify Complementary Resources to the Implementation of Web-based Applications in a Paint Supply Chain," The International Journal of Information System and Supply Chain Management, Vol. 1, No. 2, Mar -May 2008, pp. 40-562.
Book and Book Chapter
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, Kim, Jay, and Miller, Jeffrey G., "Complementary Resources, Web-based Applications, and the Development of Competitive Supply Chain," Invited book chapter in "Innovations in Supply Chain Management for Information Systems: Novel Approaches," editor, John Wang, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2009
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, Chang, Yu Sang, and Kim, Young Soo, "Reports on the World Best Practices," Samsung Economic Research Institute, Seoul, Korea, 2002, published in Korean
- Hongik MIS Team (Lee, Yoo-Taek Co-authored), "Computer Management Soft," Young Jin Press, Seoul, Korea, 1993, published in Korean
Corporate Report
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, "The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing Good by Doing Well," 2011 KMAC Strategic Report, No 1, 2011, published in Korean
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, "2011 The Most Admired Company Annual Report of Homeplus: The Best Practices and Stakeholder's Values," Korea Management Association Consulting (KMAC), Seoul, Korea, forthcoming issue 2011, to be published in English and in Korean
- Lee, Yoo-Taek, "2010 The Most Admired Company Annual Report of Incheon International Airport Corporation: The Best Practices and Stakeholder's Values," Korea Management Association Consulting (KMAC), Seoul, Korea, 2010, published in English
