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Date of this Version
9-8-2026
Document Type
Article
Citation
Transcript, September 8, 2026
Abstract
Dr. Sang Lee was awarded the ORCA in 1980. Sang was born in 1939 in South Korea and grew up in Seoul. He earned his bachelor’s in 1961 at Seoul National University. Next, he traveled over 7000 miles to the US to earn a master’s from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and then a somewhat shorter move to the University of Georgia in Athens, where he earned a doctorate in Business Administration and Management. From 1968 to 1976, he rose through the ranks at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg while making a splash for his “goal programming” ideas. In 1976, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was ecstatic when he agreed to serve as chair of the management department, a position he held for 35 years. He retired in 2011 but remains very active. He still lives in Lincoln.
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Copyright 2026, Mark Griep. Used by permission.