Professor
Son is tenured at the Management Department, Zicklin School of Business,
Bernard M. Baruch College. He has also been a doctoral faculty member at the
Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York, and a
faculty member of the Executive Programs (MBA and MST) at the Zicklin Business
School.
Dr.
Son has been teaching Operations Management, Service Management Strategies,
Management Information Systems, and Production Planning Systems to undergraduate
and graduate (including Executive MBA and Ph.D.) students. Before joining the
faculty at the business school, he taught at the engineering school in the
areas of Economics Decision Analysis and Group Technology.
His
research areas are Operations Economics and Technology Management, focusing on
operations strategy assessment, cost estimation, performance measurement
re-engineering, economic justification analysis, decision support system
development, and computer simulation applications. He has published numerous
research papers in leading international journals, and won many prestigious
awards for authoring the best research papers, including the 1987 Alfred Bodine
Award, the 1990 Eugene Grant Award, the 1991 IIE Outstanding Publication Award,
the 1991 Romey Everdell Award.
Prof.
Son has been actively involved in professional activities as a journal referee,
consultant, book reviewer, conference session chair, doctoral student advisor,
faculty senator, speaker in universities, operations, and professional
organizations, and so forth. He is also active in community services as a
campaign solicitor for people in need, chairman of various committee, teacher,
and so on.
As a
Korean-American, Dr. Son is active recently in promoting the relationship
between the USA and Korea. He co-founded and led a forum for that purpose,
moderated many events between two nations, and received a certificate of
commendation from Korean government. He organized Zicklin EMBA program
International Study Tour to Korea in March 2000. He has developed and directed
for three years an executive program for educating Korea¡¯s senior business
managers at the USA Thanks to the supports of Zicklin Business School and the
Samsung Corporation. His book, Paradoxical Management in the Information Era
(1995), an edited version of a-year-long columns at major Korean newspapers,
became a best seller that was highly publicized by over 20 Korean news media
including TVs, radios, newspapers, and magazines.
Before
coming to the Baruch, he worked at Auburn University, Korea Institute of
Science and Technology (KIST), Korea Development Institute (KDI), and IBM
Japan. He received a BS degree from Seoul National University in Korea and a
Ph.D. at Auburn University.