Ming Hu
Bio
Ming Hu is Distinguished Professor of Business Operations and Analytics and a Professor of Operations Management at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and one of the 2018 Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors. His research has been featured in media such as Financial Times. Most recently, he focuses on operations management in the context of sharing economy, social buying, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and two-sided markets, with the goal to exploit operational decisions to the benefit of the society. He is the recipient of Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award by POM Society (2016) and Best Operations Management Paper in Management Science Award by INFORMS (2017). He currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Naval Research Logistics, co-editor of a special issue of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management on sharing economy and innovative marketplaces, and associate editor of Operations Research and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and senior editor of Production and Operations Management. He received a master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University in 2009.
Academic Positions
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2019-
Distinguished Professor of Business Operations and Analytics, University of Toronto
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2017-
Professor, University of Toronto
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2008-2017
(Acting) Assistant / Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Selected Publications - Papers
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with Y. Cui, J. Liu
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with B. Hu, H. Zhu
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with J. Liu, X. Zhai
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with H. Chen, J. Wu
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with X. Xu, W. Xue, Y. Yang
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with H. Zhu, F. Y. Chen, Y. Yang
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with Y. Liu, W. Wang
Management Science
Issue:65(8)
2019
Pages: 3654-3672
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with Y. Feng
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with L. Du, J. Wu
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with H. Chen, G. Perakis
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with Y. Zhou
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with J. Wang
Management Science, forthcoming
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with Q. Qian, S. A. Yang
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A. Federgruen
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with Y. Zhou, T. H. Cui
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with Y. Zhou
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with Z. Wang, Y. Feng
Operations Research, forthcoming
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with L. Wang
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with Y. Cui, Y. A. Orhun
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with P. Afeche, Y. Li
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with A. Federgruen
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with Y. Li, J. Wang
Management Science
Issue:64(6)
2018
Pages: 2650-2671
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with Y. Chen
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, forthcoming
2018
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with A. Federgruen
INFORMS Tutorials in Operations Research
2017
Pages: 178-211
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with B. Hu, Y. Yang
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Issue:19(1)
2017
Pages: 132-149
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with J. Milner, J. Wu
Management Science
Issue:62(3)
2016
Pages: 867-879
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with A. Federgruen
Operations Research
Issue:64(1)
2016
Pages: 135-149
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with A. Federgruen
Operations Research
Issue:63(3)
2015
Pages: 572-584
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with O. Baron, S. Najafi-Asadolahi, Q. Qian
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Issue:17(4)
2015
Pages: 456-469
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with G. Gallego, R. Wang, J. Ward, J. L. Beltran
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Issue:17(1)
2015
Pages: 87-100
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with X. Li, M. Shi
Marketing Science
Issue:34(3)
2015
Pages: 331-345
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with J. Wu, M. Shi
Management Science
Issue:61(9)
2015
Pages: 2025-2040
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with Z. Pang, O. Berman
Production and Operations Management
Issue:24(7)
2015
Pages: 1135-1147
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with Z. Wang
Production and Operations Management
Issue:23(11)
2014
Pages: 1919-1936
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with G. Gallego
Management Science (2017 Management Science Best Paper Award in Operations Management)
Issue:60(5)
2014
Pages: 1241-1259
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with G. Gallego, R. Wang, J. Ward, J. L. Beltran
Production and Operations Management
Issue:23(4)
2014
Pages: 645-659
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with Y. Yang
Operations Research (2014 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition, Honorable Mention)
Issue:62(4)
2014
Pages: 812-828
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with M. Shi, J. Wu
Management Science
Issue:59(12)
2013
Pages: 2805-2822
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with M. Pavlin, M. Shi
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Issue:15(2)
2013
Pages: 250-262
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
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Online Group Buying and Crowdfunding: Two Cases of All-or-Nothing Mechanisms
with M. Shi, J. Wu
Springer
Issue:Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, M. Hu (Ed.)
2019
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Pricing and Matching in the Sharing Economy
with Y. Chen, Y. Zhou
Springer
Issue:Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, M. Hu (Ed.)
2019
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Ming Hu (Ed.)
Springer
2019
Pages: 1-528
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with A. Federgruen
INFORMS
Issue:Tutorials in Operations Research
2017
Pages: 178-211
Research and Teaching Interests
Pricing and Revenue Management, Supply Chain Management, Interface between Operations Management and Marketing, Social Operations Management, Service Operations
Honors and Awards
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2018
Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professor, Poets & Quants
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2017
Annual Conference Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention, CSAMSE
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2018, 2017
Management Science Distinguished Service Award, INFORMS
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2017
Summer Grant, NET Institute
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2017
Best OM Paper in Management Science, INFORMS
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2016
Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award, POMS
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2015
Roger Martin Excellence in Research Award, Rotman School of Management
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2015
Rotman School of Management Teaching Award, University of Toronto
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2015
Annual Conference Best Paper Award, First Prize, CSAMSE
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2014
Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition, Honorable Mention, INFORMS
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2017, 2016, 2014, 2013
M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, INFORMS
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2016, 2015, 2011
Management Science Meritorious Service Award, INFORMS
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2011
Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto
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2013-2009
Excellence in Teaching Award, Rotman School of Management
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2009
Connaught Start-Up Award, University of Toronto
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2010-2008
Innovation Research Award, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
Academic / Professional Service
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2018-
Editor-in-Chief, Naval Research Logistics
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2018-
Associate Editor, Operations Research
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2018
Co-Editor, Special Issue of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management on Sharing Economy and Innovative Marketplaces
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2018-
Associate Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
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2017-
Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management
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2015-2017
Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics