Home DR. PAUL CHONGKUN HONG
Professor
Department: IOTM
Office: Stranahan Hall – 4042
Telephone: (419) 530 – 2054
Email:paul.hong@utoledo.edu
Dr. Paul Hong is Professor of Operations Management at the University of Toledo, USA. He is a graduate of Yonsei University, Korea with a BA in Economics. He also has an MBA and a MA from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. in Manufacturing Management and Engineering from the University of Toledo, USA. He is a certified management accountant (CMA). His primary teaching areas are: operations management, global sourcing and statistics (Undergraduate), supply chain management (MBA), new product development (EMBA), advanced statistics (Ph.D), and global supply chain management (post-doctoral Bridge program).
He has received numerous research and teaching awards including J. William Fulbright Teaching and Research Excellence Award (2016), University of Toledo Innovative Teaching Excellence Award (2016), University of Toledo Research and Scholarship Award (2015), Harold E Pearson Best Paper Finalist Award of Journal of Supply Chain Management (2015), Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence(2011), and Journal of Operations Management Finalist Paper Award(2006), multiple Best Paper awards in international conferences.
His first book was on Integrated Product Development” in 2000. Recently, he released two books on ‘‘Development Network Capabilities in Turbulent Competitive Environments’’(2012, 2014). The first volume focused on “Practices of Global Firms from Korea and Japan” (2012) and the second volume on “Success Stories of Global Firms from the BRICs” (2014). Two books with Springer are in progress for the release in 2018 and 2019: (1) Asian Innovators: Cases of China, India, Japan, and Korea; (2) Global Trade and Industry Competitiveness.
He also received research and teaching grants from US Department of Education, US Department of Transportation and Society of Automotive Engineers. He has been frequently invited as key note speaker for major international global supply chain and technology conferences and global executive training workshops. He has also conducted research workshops for faculty/Ph.D. students in the areas of building research agenda for cross-disciplinary research and conducting research for impacts.