Home plus chairman to lead study in US

Lee Seung-han

By Kim Yoo-chul

Home plus Chairman Lee Seung-han will fly to the United States in June to lead a study on “creative management” at Boston University.

At a meeting with reporters, the chief of the nation’s second largest discount retailer owned by British retail chain Tesco said that the U.S. university invited him as a visiting professor to create a management theory on creative leadership and innovative management system.

Lee, who will also serve as Executive in Resident (EIR) there, will be the leader of the research project, which was organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary, the university.

EIR is the title given to a business leader recognized for his or her creative entrepreneurship and leadership.

Lee will run roundtable sessions for 100 days from June, through which he will conduct a joint study with business gurus and deliver a lecture to business school students.

“We know how to send messages. However, we don’t know how to organize messages and how to execute them. Based on my 44-year experience in management, I will try to encourage business leaders in the United States to better understand the concept of the creative management,” the former CEO Lee Seung-han told reporters in a news conference in Seoul.

“The collaboration will highlight creation and integration. The result will be used as a material for various MBA courses in that university,” said Homeplus in a statement.

Earlier in May, Lee stepped down from management of the company but has retained his chairmanship.