Guoming Lai
Professor
Department: Information, Risk & Operations Management
Research Areas: Interface between Finance and Mkt Ops, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management


ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP & AWARDS
2009 |
Professional Awards Best Paper Award of the Overseas Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering
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2009 |
William Cooper Dissertation Award
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2008 |
Second Prize, MSOM Student Paper Competition of INFORMS
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2008 |
Best Theoretical / Empirical Research Award of DSI
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Publications
Yixuan Liu, Xiaofang Wang, Stephen Gilbert, and Guoming Lai. Jan/Feb 2023. On the Participation, Competition and Welfare at Customer-Intensive Discretionary Service Platforms. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25(1): 218-234.
Qi Wu, and Guoming Lai. 2022. The Effects of Stock-Based Incentives on Inventory Management. Management Science 68(7): 5068-5086.
Guoming Lai, Huih Liu, Wenqiang Xiao, and Xinyi Zhao. May/Jun 2022. “Fulfilled by Amazon”: A Strategic Perspective of Competition at the e-Commerce Platform. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 24(3): 1406-1420.
Abhishek Roy, Stephen M. Gilbert, and Guoming Lai. September-October 2022. The Implications of Strategic Inventory for Short-term vs. Long-Term Supply Contracts in Non-Exclusive Reselling Environments. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 24(5): 2629-2647.
Guoming Lai, Yixuan Liu, and Wenqiang Xiao. 2021. International Taxation and Production Outsourcing. Production and Operations Management 30(2), 402-418.
Vernon N. Hsu, Guoming Lai, and Guitian Liang. 2019. Agricultural Partnership for Dairy Farming. Production and Operations Management28(12), 3042-3059.
Xiaofang Wang, Qi Wu, Guoming Lai, and Alan Scheller-Wolf. 2019. Offering Discretionary Healthcare Services with Medical Consumption. Production and Operations Management 28(9), 2291-2304.
Abhishek Roy, Stephen M. Gilbert, and Guoming Lai. 2019. The Implications of Visibility on the Use of Strategic Inventory in a Supply Chain. Management Science 65(4), 1752-1767.
Guoming Lai and Wenqiang Xiao. 2018. Inventory Decisions and Signals of Demand Uncertainty to Investors. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 20(1), 113-129.
Vernon N. Hsu, Guoming Lai, Baozhuang Niu, and Wenqiang Xiao. 2017. Leader-Based Collective Bargaining: Cooperation Mechanism and Incentive Analysis. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 19(1), 72-83.
Xiaofang Wang, Tong Wang, and Guoming Lai. 2017. Selling to Customers wtih Both Veblen and Network Effects. Operations Research Letters45(1), 25-29.
Heikki Peura, S. Alex Yang, and Guoming Lai. 2017. Trade Credit in Competition: A Horizontal Benefit. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 19(2), 263-289.
Seung Jae Park, Guoming Lai, and Sridhar Seshadri. 2016. Inventory Sharing in the Presence of Commodity Markets. Production and Operations Management 25(7), 1245-1260.
Fangruo Chen, Guoming Lai, and Wenqiang Xiao. 2016. Provision of Incentives for Information Acquisition: Forecast-Based Contracts vs. Menus of Linear Contracts. Management Science 62(7), 1899-1914.
Qi Feng, Guoming Lai, and Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu. 2015. Dynamic Bargaining in a Supply Chain with Asymmetric Demand Information. Management Science 61(2), 301-315.
Nicola Secomandi, Guoming Lai, Francois Margot, Alan Scheller-Wolf, and Duane J. Seppi. 2015. Merchant Commodity Storage and Term-Structure Model Error. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 17(3), 302-320.
Huaxia Rui and Guoming Lai. 2015. Sourcing with Deferred Payment and Inspection under Supplier Product Adulteration Risk. Production and Operations Management 24(6), 934-946.
Stephen M. Gilbert, Guoming Lai, and Zhuoxin Li. 2015. Supplier Encroachment as an Enhancement or a Hindrance to Nonlinear Pricing. Production and Operations Management 24(1), 89-109.
Seung Jae Park, Gerard P. Cachon, Guoming Lai, and Sridhar Seshadri. 2015. Supply Chain Design and Carbon Penalty: Monopoly vs. Monopolistic Competition. Production and Operations Management 24(9), 1494-1508.
Zhuoxin Li, Stephen M. Gilbert, and Guoming Lai. 2014. Supplier Encroachment Under Asymmetric Information. Management Science 60(2), 449-462.
Leon Yang Chu and Guoming Lai. 2013. Salesforce Contracting Under Demand Censorship. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 15(2), 320-334.
Guoming Lai, Wenqiang Xiao, and Jun Yang. 2012. Supply Chain Performance Under Market Valuation: An Operational Approach to Restore Efficiency. Management Science 58(10), 1933-1951.
Guoming Lai, Laurens Debo, and Lin Nan. 2011. Channel Stuffing with Short-term Interest in Market Value. Management Science 57(2), 332-346.
Guoming Lai, Mulan Wang, Sunder Kekre, Alan Scheller-Wolf, and Nicola Secommandi. 2011. Valuation of Storage at a Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal. Operations Research 59(3), 602-616.
Guoming Lai, Francois Margot, and Nicola Secomandi. 2010. An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Benchmark Practice-based Heuristics for Natural Gas Storage Valuation. Operations Research 58(3), 564-582.
Guoming Lai, Laurens Debo, and Katia Sycara. 2010. Buy Now and Match Later: the Impact of Posterior Price Matching on Profit with Strategic Consumers. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 12(1), 33-55.
Guoming Lai and Katia Sycara. 2009. A Generic Framework for Automated Multi-Attribute Negotiation. Group Decision and Negotiation 18(2), 169-187.
Guoming Lai, Laurens G. Debo, and Katia Sycara. 2009. Sharing inventory risk in supply chain: The implication of financial constraint. Omega37(4), 811-825.
Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, and Katia Sycara. 2006. Efficient Multi-Attribute Negotiation with Incomplete Information. Group Decision and Negotiation 15(5), 511-528.