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Glenn Richey is the Harbert eminent scholar in supply chain management and research director in the Center for Supply Chain Innovation at Auburn University’s Harbert College of Business. His role is to help advance supply chain management research and outreach at the college. Richey engages in industry-based research and enjoys building research and student relationships between academia and practice. In addition to his formal education, Richey has an executive certificate in international business from the University of South Carolina.
Prior to entering academia, Richey worked for 10 years in managerial positions across several functional areas, including procurement, sales, retail consulting, finishing/manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics/supply chain operations for two companies: Scott Paper Co. and Genuine Parts Company’s S.P. Richards Division.
Richey has published more than eighty articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals since 2003. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the Cavusgil Award for the best contribution to international marketing management in Journal of International Marketing and the LaLonde award for the best contribution in supply chain management and logistics in the Journal of Business Logistics. Richey holds a research professorship at the University of Bath (UK) and for eight years at the University of Edinburgh (UK).
Richey has been awarded multiple graduate and undergraduate teaching awards. Notably, he received the Systems and Technology Outstanding Faculty Award for teaching in the Harbert College of Business as well as the University of Alabama’s top teaching award, the National Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award. He was also noted as the "top performer" in the University of Missouri's EMBA program for multiple years. He has taught across six continents as a visiting professor and associate professor at many universities.
Richey is an associate editor at Journal of Business Logistics and the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He also serves on editorial review boards for several publications. Richey received Emerald Publishing’s Leading Editor Award as co-editor of the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management.
He maintains active memberships of the Academy of International Business, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, and the Food Industry University Coalition of the National Grocers Association. Richey's service efforts extend to many state, local, and national organizations as well as governmental entities, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
