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Hau Lee, Keith Krehbiel, Jeff Moore Receive 2007 Teaching Honors

June 2007

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Hau Lee, the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the 2007 recipient of the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award.

The MBA Student Academic Committee presents the annual award, first given in 1982, to a faculty member who inspires, as well as educates, students. More than 50 faculty members were nominated this year.

Students praised Lee for his "exceptional expertise," and described him as "engaging, knowledgeable, and humble."

One student wrote: "This professor manages to balance fun and humor with insight and knowledge." Another said, "The energy he brings to the classroom is amazing."

In addition, Members of the Sloan Master's Program class of 2007 recognized Jeffrey Moore for his outstanding work teaching in core courses for the 56 fellows. It was the third time Moore had received the Sloan Distinguished Teaching Award.

On May 31, the School's doctoral students honored Keith Krehbiel, the Edward B. Rust Professor of Political Science, with their distinguished teaching award.

A noontime crowd of students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Business School's central courtyard and cheered Lee as he accepted the award on June 4. Noting the high teaching standards at the GSB, he said, "It is exactly this excellence and exceptionally high standard of teaching at the GSB that has enabled faculty like me to improve and be good professors."

He said he also learned a great deal from his interactions with students, and drew laughter by citing concepts from the course for which he is best known: Supply Chain Management.

"Teaching is only successful and great if you have great students," he said. "The GSB is blessed with wonderful students. I'm privileged to have worked with many great students. The students are like a coproduction agent. You are part of the supply chain. You ask great questions. You stimulate the discussion, and you challenge the rest of us. This process of coproduction has enabled this learning to be fun and productive."

Lee is faculty codirector of the Global Supply Chain Management Forum, an industry-academic consortium that examines the theory and practice of global supply chain management.

He has done extensive research on global supply chain management, some of which has been adopted by businesses, such as his work on security issues associated with supply chains.

Lee has been published widely in journals, such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, and Sloan Management Review. He also served on the editorial boards of international journals, including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Supply Chain Management Review, and the Journal of Production and Operations Management.

Lee received the Harold Lardner Prize for International Distinction in Operations Research from the Canadian Operations Research Society in 2003. In 2004, his coauthored 1997 paper, "Information Distortion in Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect," was voted one of the 10 most influential papers in the history of management science.

Lee received a bachelor's degree in economics and statistics from the University of Hong Kong, a master's degree in operational research from the London School of Economics, and master's and PhD degrees in operations research from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

—Ben Pimentel