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Jing Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decisions, Operations, and Technology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He is the director of the Asian Institute of Supply Chains & Logistics' (AISCL) Institute Development Office. He received his Ph.D. (major in operations management, minor in economics and finance) and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University. 

Professor Wu’s primary research fields are the operations-finance interface, global supply chains, FinTech, and business intelligence. His papers are published in leading journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, and POMS. His articles appear in business magazines such as MIT Sloan Management Review, the Economist, and Forbes. His quantitative research on the supply chain impact of COVID-19 and the Trade War has been reported by over 400 media outlets in over 20 countries worldwide. He is an associate editor for M&SOM, a senior editor for POMS, and serves as a committee member for INFORMS, POMS, and several other leading international academic conferences. Before academia, he worked as a quantitative strategist at Deutsche Bank in New York.

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Research Interests

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Topics

Research Paper

Data

Inventory as a Financial Instrument: Evidence from China’s Metal Industries
 

Vernon Hsu and Jing Wu, Management Science, 2023.

Social Embeddedness and Supply Chains: Doing Business with Friends vs. Making Friends in Business

Haoyuan Ding, Yichuan Hu, Han Jiang, Jing Wu, and Yu Zhang, Production and Operations Management, 2023.

Trade and Foreign Economic Policy Uncertainty in Supply Chain Networks: Who Comes Home?

Ben Charoenwong, Miaozhe Han, and Jing Wu, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022.

Recent  Research Papers

Editorship

  • Associate Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 01/2024 - Present

  • Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, 11/2022 - Present

  • Editorial Review Board, Journal of Operations Management, 03/2023 - Present

  • Active Referee for

    • Management Science

    • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

    • Review of Financial Studies

    • Information Systems Research

    • Production and Operations Management

    • Journal of Operations Management

Research Grants

  • Competitive Grants

    • PI, NSFC Young Researcher Fund 2022/2023, Global Supply Chain Risks and Restructuring: An Empirical Study, RMB300,000, 01/01/2023-12/31/2025

    • Co-I, General Research Fund 2021/2022, Corporate Equality and Diversity: The Roles of Sell-Side Analysts and Buy-Side Institutions, HK$730,000, 01/01/2023-12/31/2025

    • PI, General Research Fund 2021/2022, Globalization 2.0: Supply-Chain Restructuring after Sino-US Trade War and Covid-19 Pandemic, HK$688,293, 01/01/2022-12/31/2024

    • PI, General Research Fund 2020/2021, Labor Skills on Firm Performance: A Study from Unstructured Online Job Postings, HK$406,000, 01/01/2021-12/31/2023

    • Co-I, General Research Fund 2020/2021, Supply-Chain Coordination of Human Capital Investment, HK$502,490, 01/01/2021-12/31/2022

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  • Non-Competitive Grants

    • PI, CUHK Business School Faculty Direct Fund, HK$40,000, 2020-2021

    • PI, CUHK Business School Faculty Direct Fund, HK$50,000, 2019-2020

    • PI, City University of Hong Kong Strategic Research Fund, HK$100,000, 2017-2019

    • PI, City University of Hong Kong Start-Up Fund, HK$200,000, 2016-2019

Awards and Honors

  • 2023 M&SOM Meritorious Service Award

  • 2023 Young Researcher Award, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • 2022 China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM) Best Paper Award

  • 2021 M&SOM Meritorious Service Award

  • 2021 The 13th International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE) Best Paper Award

  • 2020 M&SOM Meritorious Service Award

  • 2019 The 12nd International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE) Best Paper Award

  • 2016 The Farsight Award, Long Finance's London Accord

  • 2015 Fama-Miller Center Grant for Research in Finance

  • 2014 John and Serena Liew Fellowship, Chicago Booth

  • 2011 Sydney Davidson PhD Fellowship, Chicago Booth

  • 2011 Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate (top 1%)

  • 2009-2011 First-Class Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Tsinghua University

  • 2009 UGVR Scholarship, Stanford University

Conference Organization

  • Founding Chair, Workshop on Empirical Operations Management (WEOM), 2024.

  • Program Chair, The 9th International Conference on Smart Finance, 2024

  • Track Chair (Supply Chain Management), POMS, 2024

  • Track Chair (iFORM Cluster), INFORMS, 2023.

  • Platform Chair, The 9th International Conference on Smart Finance, 2024

  • Track Chair (Finance and Operations Management), The 7th International Conference on Smart Finance (ICSF), 2022.

  • Track Chair (Finance and Operations Management), POMS 32nd Annual Conference, 2022.

  • Track Chair (Finance and Operations Management), POMS 31st Annual Conference, 2021.

  • Committee Member, Conference of Unsolved Problems (CUHK SOUP), 2021

  • Program Committee and Chair for Career Fair: POMS-HK Conference, Hong Kong, 2019.

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