Work

Edited Book

• Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand

  2019, in Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, C. Tang (series ed.) [flyer][front matter]




Book Chapter

• Pricing and Matching in the Sharing Economy

  with Y. Chen, Y. Zhou, 2019, Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, M. Hu (ed.), 137-164, in Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, C. Tang (series ed.)

• Online Group Buying and Crowdfunding: Two Cases of All-or-Nothing Mechanisms

  with M. Shi, J. Wu, 2019, Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, M. Hu (ed.), 319-346, in Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, C. Tang (series ed.)

• Competition in Multi-Echelon Systems

  with A. Federgruen, 2017, Leading Developments from INFORMS Communities, R. Batta, J. Peng (eds.), 178-211, in INFORMS Tutorials in Operations Research, J. C. Smith (series ed.)




Paper




Special Issue Article

• Operations Management in the Age of the Sharing Economy: What Is Old and What Is New?

  with S. Benjaafar, 2020, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 22(1), 93-101 (20th anniversary special issue)

• From the Classics to New Tunes: A Neoclassical View on Sharing Economy and Innovative Marketplaces

  2019, invited by Production and Operations Management (special issue of Frontier Analytic Modeling and Methods for Operations Management)

• Stability in a General Oligopoly Model

  with A. Federgruen, 2019, Naval Research Logistics, 66(1), 90-102 (special issue in memory of Uriel Rothblum)




Social Operations Management (SOM)

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Here are my understandings of this emerging field:

1. SOM shall be analogous to social economics in economics, with SOM emphasizing the more detailed operational decisions, in the way that operations management differs from economics.

2. SOM shall differ from another field in OM, behavioral operations management, as it focuses on behaviors influenced by external social interactions instead of internal, psychological behaviors.

3. SOM shall focus on how social interactions, which lead to collective social behaviors, have an impact on firms' operational decisions, and more importantly, how operational decisions can influence the formation of collective social behaviors.

- Food Delivery (Uber Eats)

• Food Delivery Service and Restaurant: Friend or Foe?

  with M. Chen, J. Wang

- Short-Term Rental (Airbnb)

• Under the Same Roof: Value of Shared Living in Airbnb

  with Y. Cui , A. Y. Orhun

- Ride-Hailing (Uber)

• Surge Pricing and Two-Sided Temporal Responses in Ride-Hailing

  with B. Hu, H. Zhu

• Price, Wage and Fixed Commission in On-Demand Matching

  with Y. Zhou

      2018 INFORMS RM&P Section Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (Yun Zhou)

• Pricing and Matching with Forward-Looking Buyers and Sellers

  with Y. Chen, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, published online [appendix] [supplement]

• Dynamic Type Matching

  with Y. Zhou

        2018 INFORMS RM&P Section Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (Yun Zhou)

        2017 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition, Honorable Mention (Yun Zhou)

        2016 CORS Student Paper Competition Open Category, First Place (Yun Zhou)

        2016 MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Conference Conference

        2015 CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award, First Prize

        2015 INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Award Competition, Finalist (Yun Zhou)

- Crowdsourcing (Quirky)

• Joint vs. Separate Crowdsourcing Contests

  with L. Wang, forthcoming at Management Science

        Previously titled "Simultaneous vs. Sequential Crowdsourcing Contests"

- Information, Rationality and Interaction

• Efficient Inaccuracy: User-Generated Information Sharing in a Queue

  with J. Wang, forthcoming at Management Science

      2018 Service Science Cluster Best Paper Award, Finalist

• Socially Beneficial Rationality: The Value of Strategic Farmers, Social Entrepreneurs and For-Profit Firms in Crop Planting Decisions

  with Y. Liu, W. Wang, 2019, Management Science, 65(8), 3654-3672 [appendix]

        2017 CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention

        2017 MSOM Sustainable OM SIG Conference

• Efficient Ignorance: Information Heterogeneity in a Queue

  with Y. Li, J. Wang, 2018, Management Science, 64(6), 2650-2671 [appendix]

        2016 POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, First Place (Yang Li)

        2015 INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Award Competition, Finalist (Yang Li)

        2016 MSOM Service SIG Conference

- Social Influence

• Blockbuster or Niche? Competitive Strategy under Network Effects

  with Y. Feng

        NET Institute Working Paper #17-13, featured in NET Institute Fall 2017 Conference

• Information Disclosure and Pricing Policies for Sales of Network Goods

  with Z. Wang, Y. Feng, forthcoming at Operations Research

        Previously titled "Secrecy versus Transparency in Sales of Network Goods"

• Liking and Following and the Newsvendor: Operations and Marketing Policies Under Social Influence

  with J. Milner, J. Wu, 2016, Management Science, 62(3), 867-879 [appendix]

- Crowdfunding (Kickstarter)

• The Crowdfunding Effects on Venture Capital Investments

  with Y. Jin, J. Keppo

        2019 MSOM iFORM SIG Conference

• Contingent Stimulus in Crowdfunding

  with L. Du, J. Wu

        2017 MSOM iFORM SIG Conference

• Product and Pricing Decisions in Crowdfunding

  with X. Li, M. Shi, 2015, Marketing Science, 34(3), 331-345 [appendix][erratum]

        Executive Summary: Range of Options, Prices Brings in the Crowdfunding Bucks
        Press Release: Range of Options, Prices Brings in the Crowdfunding Bucks [May 7, 2014] [Feb 2, 2015]
        Media Coverage: PROFITguide (Canada), Ideas for Leaders (UK), BizEd (UK), Inc. (US)

- Group Buying (Groupon)

• Intertemporal Segmentation via Flexible-Duration Group Buying

  with J. Liu, X. Zhai, forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

• Threshold Effects in Online Group Buying

  with J. Wu, M. Shi, 2015, Management Science, 61(9), 2025-2040 [data]

• Simultaneous vs. Sequential Group-Buying Mechanisms

  with M. Shi, J. Wu, 2013, Management Science, 59(12), 2805-2822

        Press Release: Is the Deal On? [Feb 21, 2012]

        Media Coverage: Financial Times (UK), China Daily (China), The Daily Mail (UK), Toronto Star (Canada) [lead article in the Business section], The Latest News (Chile), AOL Money (UK)




Supply Chain Management

- Blockchain

• Values of Traceability in Supply Chains

  with Y. Cui, J. Liu

        2019 MSOM Supply Chain SIG Conference

- Omnichannel Retailing

• Demand Pooling in Omnichannel Operations

  with X. Xu, W. Xue, Y. Yang

- Supply Chain Finance

• Financial Pooling in a Supply Chain

  with Q. Qian, S. A. Yang

        2016 MSOM iFORM SIG Conference

- Mergers and Acquisitions

• The Price and Variety Effects of Vertical Mergers

  with A. Federgruen

- Competition in Supply Chain

• Open or Closed? Technology Sharing, Supplier Investment, and Competition

  with B. Hu, Y. Yang, 2017, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 19(1), 132-149 [appendix] [supplement] [blog]

• Sequential Multi-Product Price Competition in Supply Chain Networks

  with A. Federgruen, 2016, Operations Research, 64(1), 135-149 [appendix]

        Unabridged Memo: Price Competition in Sequential Multi-Product Oligopolies

- Inventory Management

• A Simple Heuristic Policy for Stochastic Distribution Inventory Systems with Fixed Costs

  with H. Zhu, F. Y. Chen, Y. Yang

• Modified Echelon (r, Q) Policies with Guaranteed Performance Bounds for Stochastic Serial Inventory Systems

  with Y. Yang, 2014, Operations Research, 62(4), 812-828 [appendix]
  

        2014 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition, Honorable Mention

        2014 MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Conference [slides]

- Joint Inventory and Pricing

• The Downside of Reorder Flexibility under Price Competition

  with P. Afèche, Y. Li

• Newsvendor Selling to Loss-Averse Consumers with Stochastic Reference Points

  with O. Baron, S. Najafi-Asadolahi, Q. Qian, 2015, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 17(4), 456-469 [appendix]

• When Gray Markets Have Silver Linings: All-Unit Discounts, Gray Markets and Channel Management

  with M. Pavlin, M. Shi, 2013, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 15(2), 250-262 [appendix]




Revenue Management and Pricing

- Network Effect

• Revenue Volatility under Uncertain Network Effects

  with O. Baron, A. Malekian

- Sales Management

• Sales Effort Management under All-or-Nothing Constraint

  with L. Du, J. Wu

- Randomized Pricing

• Intertemporal Price Discrimination via Randomized Pricing

  with H. Chen, J. Wu

        2019 Best Service Science Paper Award, Finalist

        2019 MSOM Service Operations SIG Conference

- Robust Pricing

• Distribution-Free Pricing

  with H. Chen, G. Perakis

- Competitive Pricing

• Global Robust Stability in a General Price and Assortment Competition Model

  with A. Federgruen, forthcoming at Operations Research

• Multi-Product Price and Assortment Competition

  with A. Federgruen, 2015, Operations Research, 63(3), 572-584 [appendix]

• Price Competition in the Presence of Social Comparison and Demand Uncertainty

  with Y. Zhou, T. H. Cui

• Committed versus Contingent Pricing under Competition

  with Z. Wang, 2014, Production and Operations Management, 23(11), 1919-1936 [appendix]

- Dynamic Pricing

• Up then Down: Bid-Price Trends in Revenue Management

  with Z. Pang, O. Berman, 2015, Production and Operations Management, 24(7), 1135-1147 [appendix]

• Dynamic Pricing of Perishable Assets under Competition

  with G. Gallego, 2014, Management Science, 60(5), 1241-1259 [appendix]

        2017 Best OM Paper in Management Science

- Design and Pricing of Warranty

• No Claim? Your Gain: Design of Residual Value Extended Warranties under Risk Aversion and Strategic Claim Behavior

  with G. Gallego, R. Wang, J. Ward, J. L. Beltran, 2015, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 17(1), 87-100 [appendix]

        US Patent 2010/0185503, Product Warranties Having a Residual Value

• Flexible-Duration Warranties with Dynamic Reliability Learning

  with G. Gallego, R. Wang, J. Ward, J. L. Beltran, 2014, Production and Operations Management, 23(4), 645-659 [appendix]

        US Patent 2011/0295756, Flexible Extended Product Warranties Having Partially Refundable Premiums

        US Patent 2011/0295755, Flexible Extended Product Warranties