Faculty & Staff

Dr. Hokey Min is the holder of James R. Good Chair in Global Supply Chain Strategy at the Bowling Green State University. He was Professor of Supply Chain Management, Distinguished University Scholar and Director of the UPS Center for World-wide Supply Chain Management, the Center for Supply Chain Workforce Development, and the Founding Executive Director of the Logistics and Distribution Institute (LoDI) at the University of Louisville. As Director, he brought more than $6.5 million grants (both private and federal), endowments and gifts to the University of Louisville. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences and Logistics from the Ohio State University. His research interests include global logistics strategy, e-synchronized supply chain, benchmarking, and supply chain modeling. He has published more than 110 articles in various refereed journals including European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Transportation Journal, and Transportation Research.

He is currently serving as one of the editors for International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications and serving on the editorial review boards for International Journal of Integrated Supply Management. Also, he has been serving as the Regional Vice President (Industry Liaison) of the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute (MWDSI). Over the last few years, he has been heavily engaged in various consulting and outreach efforts dealing with practical problems encountered by UPS Air, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Dixie Warehouse Services, Pegasus Transportation, Tyme-It Transportation, Usher Transportation, National Tobacco Company, Syntel, Revere Group, Scan Steel, World Health Organization (WHO), Brown-Forman, Buckeye Cable Systems and so forth.  Ever since he joined BGSU, he has secured three research grants from the Canadian Embassy, the MIOH Department of Transportation, and the Intermodal Transport Institute at the University of Toledo.

Educational Background

• 1987 -  Ph.D in Management Sciences and Logistics, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State  University, Columbus, Ohio
• 1986 -  M.A. in Management Sciences, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• 1982 -  M.S. in Management Sciences (Operations Management Concentration), University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
• 1980 -  M.B.A. in Production Management, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Academic Experience

• 2006 – Present, James R. Good Chair in Global Supply Chain Strategy, Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State University
• 2003 – 2006, Distinguished University Scholar and the Founding Director of UPS Center for Worldwide Supply Chain Management and Center for Supply Chain Workforce Development at the University of Louisville
• 1998 – 2003, Executive Director/Founding Director of the Logistics and Distribution Institute, University of Louisville
• 1992 – 1998, Associate Professor of Logistics and Operations Management, Department of Marketing and Logistics, College of Business, Auburn University, Alabama
• 1989 – 1992, Assistant of Professor of Operations and Logistics Management, Department of Management Science, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Boston
• 1987 – 1989, Assistant Professor of Operations and Systems Management, Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of New Orleans, New Orleans