Operations Management Working Papers

Chen, Manlu and Baron, Opher and Mandelbaum, Avishai and Wang, Jianfu and Yom-Tov, Galit and Arber, Nadir, Waiting Experience in Open-Shop Service Networks: Improvements via Flow Analytics & Automation (January 27, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4018744 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4018744

Hu, Ming and Wang, Jianfu and Zhang, Zhoupeng (Jack), Implications of Worker Classification in On-Demand Economy (April 6, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4076484 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4076484

Chen, Ningyuan and Cire, Andre Augusto and Hu, Ming and Lagzi, Saman, Model-Free Assortment Pricing with Transaction Data (January 3, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3759397 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3759397

Baron, Opher and Economou, Antonis and Manou, Athanasia, Increasing social welfare with delays: strategic customers in the M/G/1 orbit queue (January 12, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3788822 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3788822

Nourinejad, Mehdi and Baron, Opher and Berman, Oded, Recipient-Dependent Deliveries in Last-Mile Logistics (January 29, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3775721 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3775721

Hu, Chen and Hu, Ming and Xiao, Yongbo, Socially Responsible Newsvendor (March 16, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3805366 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3805366

Baron, Opher and Romero, Gonzalo and Zhang, Zhuoluo and Zhou, Sean, Innovative Business Models in Ocean-Bound Plastic Recycling (June 22, 2021). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3871885, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3871885

Abouee Mehrizi, Hossein and Eshraghi, Mohammad Hossein and Hu, Ming, Efficient Sampling: Sample Average Inference of Service Capacity in a Queue (July 24, 2021). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3892899, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3892899 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3892899

Farajollahzadeh, Setareh and Hu, Ming, Potty Parity: Process Flexibility via Unisex Restroom (December 9, 2021). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3914880, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3914880 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3914880

Acemoglu, Daron and Makhdoumi, Ali and Malekian, Azarakhsh and Ozdaglar, Asuman E., Testing, Voluntary Social Distancing and the Spread of an Infection (July 2020). NBER Working Paper No. w27483, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3667406

Alaei, Saeed and Makhdoumi, Ali and Malekian, Azarakhsh and Pekeč, Saša, Revenue-Sharing Allocation Strategies for Two-Sided Media Platforms: Pro-Rata versus User-Centric (July 7, 2020). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3645521, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3645521 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3645521

Alaei, Saeed and Belloni, Alexandre and Makhdoumi, Ali and Malekian, Azarakhsh, Optimal Auction Design with Deferred Inspection and Reward (September 27, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3700525 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3700525

Baron, Opher and Berman, O. and Wang, Lu, Synchronizing Travelling and Waiting Processes: Customer Strategy with an Online Reservation System (February 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3536517 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3536517

Baron, Opher and Hu, Ming and Malekian, Azarakhsh, Revenue Volatility under Uncertain Network Effects (March 25, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3561270 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3561270

Chen, Mingliu and Hu, Ming, Courier Dispatch in On-Demand Delivery (August 16, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3675063

Chen, Ningyuan and Hu, Ming and Zhang, Chaoyu, Capacitated SIR Model with an Application to COVID-19 (September 14, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3692751 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3692751

Deng, Wanjiang and Hu, Ming and Shi, Mengze and Wu, Jiahua, Prosocial Spectrum of Crowdfunding Projects (August 20, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3677790or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3677790

Hu, Ming and jin, yannan and Keppo, Jussi, The Crowdfunding Effects on Venture Capital Investments (January 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3512638

GORBUSHIN, ARSENIY and Hu, Ming, Courier Sharing in Food Delivery (March 4, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3548978

Hu, Ming and Farajollahzadeh, Setareh, Social Newsboys (March 5, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3549011

Hu, Ming and Momot, Ruslan and Wang, Jianfu, Privacy Management in Service Systems (June 16, 2020). HEC Paris Research Paper No. MOSI-2020-1379, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3628751 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3628751

Hu, Ming and Huang, Weixiang and Liu, Chunhui and Zhou, Wenhui, Regulation of Privatized Public Service Systems (August 2, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3665525 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3665525

Hu, Ming and Wang, Jianfu and Wen, Hengda, Share or Solo? Individual and Social Choices in Ride-Hailing (August 16, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3675050

Hu, Ming, Spatial or Temporal Pooling Solves Wild Goose Chase (August 18, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3676065

Hu, Ming and Liu, Yan, Precommitments in Two-Sided Market Competition (November 19, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3734828 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3734828

Zhang, Dennis and Hu, Ming and Liu, Xiaofei and Wu, Yuxiang and Li, Yong, NetEase Cloud Music Data (March 16, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3554826 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3554826

Zhu, Han and Chen, Frank Y. and Hu, Ming and Yang, Yi, Supplement to 'A Simple Heuristic Policy for Stochastic Distribution Inventory Systems with Fixed Shipment Costs' (May 20, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3606084 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3606084

Hu, Ming and Liu, Yan, Precommitments in Two-sided Market Competition (February 20, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3338244

Du, Longyuan and Hu, Ming and Wu, Jiahua, Sales Effort Management under All-or-Nothing Constraint (December 18, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3506499 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3506499

Abouee Mehrizi, Hossein and Baron, Opherand Berman, O. and Chen, David, Managing Perishable Inventory Systems with Multiple Demand Classes (May 24, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3191819 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3191819

Abouee Mehrizi, Hossein and Baron, Opherand Berman, O. and Chen, David, Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Car Sharing Market (June 1, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3191793 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3191793

Baron, Opher and Berman, Oded and Nourinejad, Mehdi, Introducing Autonomous Vehicles: Formulation and Analysis (September 17, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3250557 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3250557

Calmon, Andre and Ciocan, Dragos and Romero, Gonzalo, Revenue Management with Repeated Customer Interactions (August 21, 2018). INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/34/TOM. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3200338 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3200338

Chan, Timothy and Howard, Nicholas and Lagzi, Saman and Romero, Gonzalo, Cherry-picking and its Negative Effect on System Service Level: Evidence from a Radiology Workflow Platform (October 26, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3273494 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3273494

Chen, Hongqiao and Hu, Ming and Wu, Jiahua, Intertemporal Price Discrimination Via Randomized Pricing (July 31, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3223844 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3223844

Cire, Andre Augusto and Diamant, Adam, Dynamic Scheduling of Home Health Care Patients to Medical Providers (July 8, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3210339 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3210339

Cui, Yao and Orhun, A. Yesim and Hu, Ming, Under the Same Roof: Value of Shared Living in Airbnb (March 10, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3136138 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3136138

Cui, Yao and Hu, Ming and Liu, Jingchen, Values of Traceability in Supply Chains (November 27, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3291661 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3291661

Hu, Bin and Hu, Ming and Zhu, Han, Surge Pricing and Two-Sided Temporal Responses in Ride-Hailing (November 7, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3278023 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3278023

Hu, Ming and Liu, Jingchen and Zhai, Xin, Intertemporal Segmentation Via Flexible-Duration Group Buying (September 1, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3242687 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3242687

Hu, Ming and Xu, Xiaolin and Xue, Weili and Yang, Yi, Demand Pooling in Omnichannel Operations (July 15, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3214047 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3214047

Hu, Ming and Qian, Qu and Yang, S. Alex, Financial Pooling in a Supply Chain (March 5, 2018). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2783833. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2783833 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2783833

Wang, Jianfu and Abouee Mehrizi, Hossein and Baron, Opher and Berman, Oded, Staffing Tandem Queues with Impatient Customers – Application in Financial Service Operations (February 2, 2018). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3116815. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3116815 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3116815

Chen, Hongqiao and Hu, Ming and Perakis, Georgia, Distribution-Free Pricing (December 18, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3090002 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3090002

Federgruen, Awi and Hu, Ming, Global and Robust Stability in a General Price and Assortment Competition Model (August 2, 2017). Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-78. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3010503 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3010503

Federgruen, Awi and Hu, Ming, Competition in Multi-Echelon Systems (May 14, 2017). Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-56. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2968186or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2968186

Feng, Yinbo and Hu, Ming, Blockbuster or Niche? Competitive Strategy Under Network Effects (September 1, 2017). NET Institute Working Paper No. 17-13; Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3049370. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3049370 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3049370

Hu, Ming and Zhou, Yun, Price, Wage and Fixed Commission in On-Demand Matching (April 10, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2949513 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2949513

Hu, Ming and Wang, Lu, Simultaneous vs. Sequential Crowdsourcing Contests (January 2, 2017). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2892683. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2892683 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2892683

Nadarajah, Selvaprabu and Cire, Andre Augusto, Network-Based Approximate Linear Programming for Discrete Optimization (December 3, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3081898 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3081898

Wang, Jianfu and Hu, Ming, Efficient Inaccuracy: User-Generated Information Sharing in a Queue (October 2, 2017). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3046905. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3046905 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3046905

Zhu, Han and Chen, Frank Y. and Hu, Ming and Yang, Yi, A Simple Heuristic Policy for Stochastic Distribution Inventory Systems with Fixed Shipment Costs (February 23, 2017). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2921743. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2921743or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2921743

Baron, Opher and Economou, Antonis and Manou, Athanasia, The State-Dependent M/G/1 Queue with Orbit: Analysis and Strategic Customer Behavior (December 14, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2887379 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2887379

Baron, Opher and Callen, Jeffrey L. and Segal, Dan, Does the Bullwhip Matter Economically? A Cross-Sectional Firm-Level Analysis (October 20, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2856510 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2856510

Calmon, Andre and Rajasingh, Diana and Romero, Gonzalo and Stenson, Jackie, Operations Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid: Consumer Education and Reverse Logistics in a Durable Goods Supply Chain (February 15, 2018). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2882402; INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/04/TOM. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2882402 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2882402

Chen, Yiwei and Hu, Ming, Pricing and Matching with Forward-Looking Buyers and Sellers (October 27, 2016). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2859864. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2859864 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2859864

Federgruen, Awi and Hu, Ming, The Price and Variety Effects of Vertical Mergers (August 28, 2016). Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-63. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2830156 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2830156

Hu, Bin and Hu, Ming and Yang, Yi, Open or Closed? Technology Sharing, Supplier Investment, and Competition (July 14, 2016). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2630477. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2630477 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2630477

Hu, Ming and Liu, Yan and Wang, Wenbin, Socially Beneficial Rationality: The Value of Strategic Farmers, Social Entrepreneurs and For-Profit Firms in Crop Planting Decisions (October 4, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2847477 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2847477

• Hu, Ming and Zhou, Yun, Dynamic Matching in a Two-Sided Market (April 9, 2015). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2592622.

• Baron, Opher and Berman, Oded and Gavious, Arieh, A Game between a Terrorist and a Passive Defender (March 11, 2015). 

• Sharma, Shrutivandana and Abouee Mehrizi, Hossein and Berman, Oded, Optimal Joint Replenishment and Transshipment Policies in a Multi-Period Inventory System With Lost Sales (March 10, 2015). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2576067. 

• Hu, Ming and Zhou, Yun, Price Competition in the Presence of Social Comparison and Demand Uncertainty (February 2, 2015). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2559498.

• Menzefricke, Uli and Smieliauskas, Wally, Evidence on the Unauditability of Estimated Returns in Pension Plan Accounting and Their Note Disclosures (October 19, 2014). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2540663.

• Hu, Ming and Li, Yang and Wang, Jianfu, Efficient Ignorance: Information Heterogeneity in a Queue (July 25, 2014). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2472107.

• Menzefricke, Ulrich and Smieliauskas, Wally, Evidence on the Representational Faithfulness of Estimated Returns in Pension Plan Accounting Judgments (May 26, 2014). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2487527.

•  Gallego, Guillermo, Wang, Ruxian, Hu, Ming, Ward, Julie and Beltran, Jose Luis, No Claim? Your Gain: Design of Residual Value Extended Warranties Under Risk Aversion and Strategic Claim Behavior (April 2014).

• Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Research Paper No. 2015-21. Hu, Ming, Li, Xi and Shi, Mengze, Product and Pricing Decisions in Crowdfunding (March 2014). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2405552.

• Federgruen, Awi and Hu, Ming, Price Competition in Sequential Multi-Product Oligopolies (January 2014).

• Federgruen, Awi and Hu, Ming, Multi-Product Price and Assortment Competition (December 2013). Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-3; Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2366487.

• Berman, O., Drezner, Z. and Krass, D., Continuous Covering and Cooperative Covering Problems with a General Decay Function on Networks (November 2013). Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 64, Issue 11, pp. 1644-1653, 2013.

• Baron, Opher, Hu, Ming, Najafi Asadolahi, Sami and Qian, Qu, Newsvendor Selling to Loss Averse Consumers with Stochastic Reference Points (September 2013).

• Afeche, Philipp and Pavlin, Michael, Optimal Price-Lead Time Menus for Queues with Customer Choice: Priorities, Pooling & Strategic Delay (August 2013).

• Gallego, Guillermo, Wang, Ruxian, Ward, Julie, Hu, Ming and Beltran, Jose Luis, Flexible-Duration Extended Warranties with Dynamic Reliability Learning (August 2013).

• Hu, Ming, Milner, Joseph, and Wu, Jiahua,Liking and Following and the Newsvendor: Operations and Marketing Policies Under Social Influence (July 2013).

• Hu, Ming and Wang, Zizhuo, The Double-Edged Sword of Social Interactions: Revenue Management of Network Goods Under Demand Uncertainty (April 2013).

• Pang, Zhan, Berman, O. and Hu, Ming, Up then Down: The Bid-Price Trends in Revenue Management (March 2013).

• Menzefricke, Uli and Smieliauskas, Wally, Empirical Analysis of Accounting Estimates When Predictions are Poor (November 2012). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2230691.

• Justin Michael, Pavlin and Mahmudi, Hamed, What Drives Corporate Excess Cash? Evidence from a Structural Estimation (April 2010).

• Pfeifer, Phil E. and Ovchinnikov, Anton, The Role of Customer Lifetime Value in Determining Marketing Spending for Firms with Limited Capacity (January 2009).

• Ovchinnikov, Anton and Milner, Joseph, Revenue Management with End-of-Period Discounts in the Presence of Customer Learning (January 2009).

• Krass, Dmitry and Ovchinnikov, Anton, Group Balancing: A Simple Tool for a Hard Problem (January 2009).

• Ovchinnikov, Anton, Revenue and Cost Management for Remanufactured Products (January 2009).

• Krass, Dmitry and Ovchinnikov, Anton, Environmental Taxes and the Choice of Pollution-Reducing Technology: Monopoly Case (January 2009).

• Hu, Ming, Strategic Substitutes in Competitive Revenue Management with Multiple Predetermined Options (November 2008).

• Opher Baron, Oded Berman, and Desheng Wu, Bargaining within the Supply Chain and Its Implication to Coordination of Supply Chains in an Industry (June 2008).

• Gallego, Guillermo and Hu, Ming, Dynamic Pricing of Perishable Assets under Competition (May 2008).

• Krass, Dmitry and Ovchinnikov, Anton, The University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management Uses Management Science to Create MBA Study Groups (May 2006).