Ming Hu

Academic Positions

Selected Publications - Papers

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

  with S. Benjaafar

  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, forthcoming

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

   

• Values of Traceability in Supply Chains

  with Y. Cui, J. Liu

   

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

  with B. Hu, H. Zhu

   

• Intertemporal Segmentation via Flexible-Duration Group Buying

  with J. Liu, X. Zhai

  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, forthcoming

• Intertemporal Price Discrimination via Randomized Pricing

  with H. Chen, J. Wu

   

• Demand Pooling in Omnichannel Operations

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

   

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

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

   

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

  with Y. Liu, W. Wang

  Management Science

  Issue:65(8)

  2019

  Pages: 3654-3672

• Blockbuster or Niche? Competitive Strategy under Network Effects

  with Y. Feng

   

• Contingent Stimulus in Crowdfunding

  with L. Du, J. Wu

• Distribution-Free Pricing

  with H. Chen, G. Perakis

• Dynamic Type Matching

  with Y. Zhou

   

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

  with J. Wang

  Management Science, forthcoming

• Financial Pooling in a Supply Chain

  with Q. Qian, S. A. Yang

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

  A. Federgruen

  Operations Research, minor revision

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

  with Y. Zhou, T. H. Cui

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

  with Y. Zhou

• Information Disclosure and Pricing Policies for Sales of Network Goods

  with Z. Wang, Y. Feng

  Operations Research, forthcoming

• Joint vs. Separate Crowdsourcing Contests

  with L. Wang

  Management Science, minor revision

• Social Pricing in the Sharing Economy: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Airbnb

  with Y. Cui, Y. A. Orhun

• The Downside of Reorder Flexibility under Price Competition

  with P. Afeche, Y. Li

• The Price and Variety Effects of Vertical Mergers

  with A. Federgruen

• Efficient Ignorance: Information Heterogeneity in a Queue

  with Y. Li, J. Wang

  Management Science

  Issue:64(6)

  2018

  Pages: 2650-2671

• Pricing and Matching with Forward-Looking Buyers and Sellers

  with Y. Chen

  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, forthcoming

  2018

• Competition in Multi-Echelon Systems

  with A. Federgruen

  INFORMS Tutorials in Operations Research

  2017

  Pages: 178-211

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

  with B. Hu, Y. Yang

  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

  Issue:19(1)

  2017

  Pages: 132-149

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

  with J. Milner, J. Wu

  Management Science

  Issue:62(3)

  2016

  Pages: 867-879

• Sequential Multi-Product Price Competition in Supply Chain Networks

  with A. Federgruen

  Operations Research

  Issue:64(1)

  2016

  Pages: 135-149

• Multi-Product Price and Assortment Competition

  with A. Federgruen

  Operations Research

  Issue:63(3)

  2015

  Pages: 572-584

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

  with O. Baron, S. Najafi-Asadolahi, Q. Qian

  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

  Issue:17(4)

  2015

  Pages: 456-469

• 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

  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

  Issue:17(1)

  2015

  Pages: 87-100

• Product and Pricing Decisions in Crowdfunding

  with X. Li, M. Shi

  Marketing Science

  Issue:34(3)

  2015

  Pages: 331-345

• Threshold Effects in Online Group Buying

  with J. Wu, M. Shi

  Management Science

  Issue:61(9)

  2015

  Pages: 2025-2040

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

  with Z. Pang, O. Berman

  Production and Operations Management

  Issue:24(7)

  2015

  Pages: 1135-1147

• Committed versus Contingent Pricing under Competition

  with Z. Wang

  Production and Operations Management

  Issue:23(11)

  2014

  Pages: 1919-1936

• Dynamic Pricing of Perishable Assets under Competition

  with G. Gallego

  Management Science (2017 Management Science Best Paper Award in Operations Management)

  Issue:60(5)

  2014

  Pages: 1241-1259

• Flexible-Duration Warranties with Dynamic Reliability Learning

  with G. Gallego, R. Wang, J. Ward, J. L. Beltran

  Production and Operations Management

  Issue:23(4)

  2014

  Pages: 645-659

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

  with Y. Yang

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

  Issue:62(4)

  2014

  Pages: 812-828

• Simultaneous vs. Sequential Group-Buying Mechanisms

  with M. Shi, J. Wu

  Management Science

  Issue:59(12)

  2013

  Pages: 2805-2822

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

  with M. Pavlin, M. Shi

  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

  Issue:15(2)

  2013

  Pages: 250-262

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

• 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

• Pricing and Matching in the Sharing Economy

  with Y. Chen, Y. Zhou

  Springer

  Issue:Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, M. Hu (Ed.)

  2019

• Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand

  Ming Hu (Ed.)

  Springer

  2019

  Pages: 1-528

• Competition in Multi-Echelon Systems

  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

Professional Affiliations/Memberships

Academic / Professional Service