Wu, Jing(吳靖)
B.Engr (Tsinghua); MBA, PhD (Chicago Booth)
Associate Professor
Director, Master of Science Programme in Business Analytics
Director, Institute Development Office, Asian Institute of Supply Chains and Logistics
Cheng Yu Tung Building
12 Chak Cheung Street
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
+852 3943 5299
jingwu@cuhk.edu.hk
Biography
Professor 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 for Master of Science Programme in Business Analytics, and the Director of the Asian Institute of Supply Chains & Logistics (AISCL)’s Institute Development Office. He receives his Ph.D. (major in operations management, minor in economics & 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 global supply chain management, operations-finance interface, sustainable operations, and FinTech, using empirical methodologies including panel econometrics, machine learning, textual analysis such as LLM. As a recipient of multiple best paper awards in OM and IS fields, his papers are published in leading journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, POMS, and JIBS. His articles appear in business magazines such as MIT Sloan Management Review, the Economist, and Forbes. In particular, his quantitative research findings on the supply chain impact of COVID-19 and the Trade War have been reported by over 400 media outlets in over 20 countries worldwide.
Professor Wu is an Associate Editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and a Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board for Journal of Operations Management. He has served multiple times as a committee/track/cluster chair for leading international academic conferences such as INFORMS and POMS meetings. He is the founding chairman for the Workshop on Empirical Operations Management (WEOM), an research platform serving empirical OM researchers in APAC and beyond. Before academia, he worked as a quantitative strategist at Deutsche Bank in New York.
Teaching Areas
Global Operations and Supply Chain Strategies
Business Intelligence and Large Language Models
FinTech and Quantitative Investment
Research Interests
Global Supply Chains
Operations-Finance Interface
Sustainable operations
FinTech Applications
- Publications & Working Papers
Refereed Publications
- Yimeng Niu, Jing Wu, Shenyang Jiang, Zhibin Jiang, “The Bullwhip Effect in Servicized Manufacturers,” Management Science, forthcoming.
- Ling Cen, Yanru Han, Jing Wu, “Equal Employment Opportunity in Supply Chains,” Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
- Senay Agca, John R. Birge, Zi’ang Wang, Jing Wu (2023), “The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Credit Risk,” Production and Operations Management.
- Jie Peng, Boluo Liu, Jing Wu, Xiangang Xin, “Financial Reporting Comparability and Global Supply Chains,” Journal of International Business Studies, forthcoming.
- Vinod Singhal and Jing Wu, “The Bullwhip Effect and Stock Returns,” Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
- Vernon Hsu and Jing Wu (2023), “The Financing Role of Inventory: Evidence from China’s Metal Industries,” Management Science.
- Michael Hertzel, Jie Peng, Jing Wu, and Yu Zhang (2023), “Global Supply Chains and Cross-Border Financing,” Production and Operations Management.
- Haoyuan Ding, Yichuan Hu, Han Jiang, Jing Wu, and Yu Zhang (2023), “Social Embeddedness and Supply Chains: Doing Business with Friends vs. Making Friends in Business,” Production and Operations Management
- Ben Charoenwong, Miaozhe Han, and Jing Wu (2022), “Trade and Foreign Economic Policy Uncertainty in Supply Chain Networks: Who Comes Home?” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
- Jing Wu, Sean Zhou, and Zhaocheng Zhang (2022), “Credit Rating Prediction Through Supply Chains: A Machine Learning Application”, Production and Operations Management.
- Senay Agca, John Birge, Jing Wu (2022), “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Sourcing of Medical Supplies,” European Society of Medicines.
- Senay Agca, Vlad Babich, and John R. Birge, Jing Wu (2021), “Credit Risk Propagation Along Supply Chains: Evidence from the CDS Market,” Management Science.
- Nikolay Osadchiy, William Schmidt, Jing Wu (2021), “The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Networks,” Management Science.
- Nikolay Osadchiy, William Schmidt, Jing Wu (2021), “The Right Way to Mix and Match Your Customers,” MIT Sloan Management Review.
- Christopher S. Tang, S. Alex Yang, Jing Wu (2018), “Sourcing from Suppliers with Financial Constraints and Performance Risk,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Papers under Review
- Yimeng Niu, Niklas Werle, Morris A. Cohen, Shiliang Cui, Vinayak Deshpande, Ricardo Ernst, Arnd Huchzermeier, Andy Tsay, Jing Wu, “Global Supply Chain Restructuring During the Covid-19 Pandemic”.
- Matthew Cedergren, Ting Luo, Jing Wu, Yue Zhang, “Spillover of Customer CDS on Supplier Disclosure,” in revision.
- Ling Cen, Michael Hertzel, Zi’ang Wang, Jing Wu, “Labor Coordination and Division: Human Capital Investment in Supply Chains,” in revision.
- Ling Cen, Lauren Cohen, Jing Wu, Fan Zhang, “The Golden Revolving Door: Hedging through Hiring Government Officials,” in revision.
- Ling Cen, Yanru Han, Chang Liu, Jing Wu, “The Rise of Conscious Consumers: The Cash Flow Implications of Corporate Workplace Equality,” in revision.
- Miaozhe Han, Hongchuan Shen, Jing Wu, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, “AI Intensity and Firm Resilience: Evidence from Firm Performance under Disaster Shocks,” in revision. (2022 CSWIM Best Paper Award)
- Jonathan Hsu, Zhi Li, Jing Wu, “Keeping Your Friends Closer: Friend-shoring in Response to Regional Value Content Requirements,” in revision.
- Yifan Jia, Zheng Wang, Jing Wu, Zilong Zhang, “The Spillover Effect of Customer CEO Myopia on Supplier Firms,” in revision.
- Nikolay Osadchiy, William Schmidt, Jing Wu, “Portfolio Approach to Cash Flow Variability,” in revision.
- Yilin Shi, Jing Wu, Yu Zhang, Yuqing Zhou, “Green Image Management in Supply Chains: Strategic Disclosure of Corporate Suppliers,” in revision (2021 CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2022 WFA Conference)
- Yilin Shi, Christopher S. Tang, Jing Wu, “Are Firms Disclosing Emissions Voluntarily Greener?” in revision.
- Jing Wu and John R. Birge, “Supply Chain Network Structure and Firm Returns,” in revision.
- Jing Wu, Hsiao-Hui Lee, John R. Birge, “The Hidden World of Trade Credit: The Flexibility Role of Late Payments,” in revision.
Book Chapters
- Shenyang Jiang, Zhibin Jiang, Yimeng Niu, Jing Wu (2023), “The Impact of Servicization of Manufacturing Firms on Bullwhip Effects,” Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management, 16 (3–4), 304-317.
- Jing Wu and Yang Xu (2020), “Supply Chain Structure and Competitor Relationship,” The Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management.
- Christopher S. Tang, S. Alex Yang, and Jing Wu (2019), “Financing Suppliers under Performance Risk,” Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management, 12 (2-3), 135-151.
- Grants
- GRF Fund “Corporate Equality and Diversity: The Roles of Sell-Side Analysts and Buy-Side Institutions,” HK$730,000, Co-Investigator, 2022-2023
- GRF Fund “Globalization 2.0: Supply-Chain Restructuring after Sino-US Trade War and Covid-19 Pandemic,” HK$688,293, Principal Investigator, 2021-2022
- GRF Fund “Supply-Chain Coordination of Human Capital Investment”, HK$502,490, Co-Investigator, 2020-2021
- GRF Fund “Labor Skills on Firm Performance: A Study from Unstructured Online Job Postings,” HK$406,000, Principal Investigator, 2020-2021
- Start-up Fund awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019-2022
- Start-up Fund awarded by City University of Hong Kong, 2016-2019
- Sidney Davidson Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Chicago Booth, 2015-2016
- John and Serena Liew Fellowship awarded by Chicago Booth, 2014-2015
- Fama-Miller Center Grant for Research in Finance awarded by Chicago Booth, 2014-2015
- Chicago Booth Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Chicago Booth, 2011-2015
- Awards & Honours
- Best Paper Award, China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), 2022
- M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2021
- Best Paper Award, The 13th International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), 2021
- M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2020
- Best Paper Award, The 12nd International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), 2019
- The Farsight Award, Long Finance’s London Accord, 2016
- Fama-Miller Center Grant for Research in Finance, 2015
- Sidney Davidson Doctoral Fellowship, Chicago Booth, 2015
- John and Serena Liew Fellowship, Chicago Booth, 2014
- Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate (Top 1%), 2011
- First-Class Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Tsinghua University, 2009-2011
- UGVR Scholarship, Stanford University, 2009
- Academic/Professional Services
- Associate Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM)
- Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management
- Editorial Review Board, Journal of Operations Management
- Reviewer for Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Information Systems Research and The Review of Financial Studies.