Hubert Pun

Western Faculty Scholar

Dr. Hubert Pun is the professor at the Mangement Science area group. In 2022, he was honored with the university-wide Western Faculty Scholar Award in recognition of his groundbreaking research on blockchain business applications. He has also been consistently acknowledged for his teaching excellence, earning Ivey Dean’s Teaching Commendation Letters (top 10% of Ivey faculty) and being named to the University Students’ Council Teaching Honor Roll in 2016/2017. Additionally, he has received the Research Merit Award (top 10% of Ivey faculty) for eight consecutive years (2019–2026). In 2023, as one of the top recipients, he was named one of two holders of the prestigious J. Allyn Taylor/Arthur H. Mingay Chair. His case, "General Motors: Supplier Selection for Innovation," was the runner-up top seller of the year (2022-2023) at Ivey Publishing. Another of his cases, "Royal Bank of Canada: Bitcoin Mining and Climate Change?" is the winner of the “Finance & Banking” category in the 2023 EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) Case Writing Competition. Finally, his case, the Dilemma of Zephyr Solaris Energy, received an honorable mention in 2025's Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Case Competition.

His research interests focus on AI governance, blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital economies, and the impact of counterfeit products. His work has been published in leading journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), Production and Operations Management (POM), and the Journal of Operations Management (JOM). He currently serves as a Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management (POM) and as an Associate Editor at Transportation Research Part E (TRE) and the International Journal of Production Research (IJPR). He also served as the PhD director during 2022-2026.

Originally from Hong Kong, Dr. Pun earned his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in engineering in Vancouver, where he also gained valuable industry experience. From 2002 to 2005, he was part of the expansion team at a Venezuelan start-up that successfully grew its operations across Central and North America, including Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and the USA. In this role, he assisted firms in deploying secure computer networks. He completed his PhD in Operations Management and Decision Sciences at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, in 2010. Later that year, he joined the Ivey Business School, where he has been a dedicated faculty member ever since.