Rate My Professor Youngbok Ryu

Youngbok Ryu is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, where he teaches in the Commerce and Economic Development graduate program and the undergraduate Management program. He joined the university in 2020 as an Assistant Teaching Professor and was promoted to Associate in June 2024. Previously, he was an instructor in the Department of Business and Technology Management at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, teaching courses such as Business Policy and Corporate Strategy, Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, and Engineering Economics. He advised thesis committees, independent studies, and student clubs, and founded the Tech Policy Group, the first science policy group in New Mexico affiliated with the National Science Policy Network. Earlier, Dr. Ryu served as an Assistant Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation, Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, military officer in the Corps of Engineering in South Korea, and patent data analyst and consultant for five years.

Dr. Ryu holds a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, an M.S. in Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea University. His research focuses on technological innovation, transportation, environment, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. He is co-director of the Northeastern Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship, a U.S. Economic Development Administration University Center, leading research on supplier diversity, and principal investigator for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Knowledge Challenge Grant on supplier diversity in higher education. Key publications include “COVID-19 Response and Prospects of Clean/Sustainable Energy Transition in Industrial Nations: New Insights from a DEA Double SBM Model” (Energies, 2021, with T. Sueyoshi and J.-Y. Yun), “Examining the Relationship between the Economic Performance of Technology-Based Small Suppliers and Socially Sustainable Procurement” (Sustainability, 2021), “Assessing the Performance of Vietnam’s Banks in the Era of COVID-19: A Two-Stage Network DEA Approach” (Sustainability, 2022, with H. Nguyen), “Environmental Assessment and Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific Region” (Energies, 2021, with T. Sueyoshi), and reports “Promoting Supplier Diversity in Higher Education” and “Addressing the Supplier Diversity Awareness Deficit: The Role of Higher Education Procurement Websites.” He hosts the annual Supplier Diversity Symposium and serves on the university’s Institutional Review Board.