Wu, Jing（吳靖）

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

  Supply Chain Management

  • Yimeng Niu, Jing Wu, Shenyang Jiang, and Zhibin Jiang (2024), “The Bullwhip Effect in Servitized Manufacturers,” Management Science.
  • Yimeng Niu, Niklas Werle, Morris A. Cohen, Shiliang Cui, Vinayak Deshpande, Ricardo Ernst, Arnd Huchzermeier, Andy Tsay, and Jing Wu, “Global Supply Chain Restructuring During the Covid-19 Pandemic,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, minor revision.
  • Jonathan Hsu, Zhi Li, and Jing Wu, “Supply Chain Nearshoring in Response to Regional Value Content Requirements,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, fast-track 1-round revision.
  • Ling Cen, Yanru Han, and Jing Wu (2024), “Equal Employment Opportunity in Supply Chains,” Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
  • 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,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
  • Senay Agca, John Birge, and Jing Wu (2022), “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Sourcing of Medical Supplies,” European Society of Medicines.
  • Nikolay Osadchiy, William Schmidt, and Jing Wu (2021), “The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Networks,” Management Science.

  Operations-Finance Interface

  • Miaozhe Han, Hongchuan Shen, Jing Wu, and Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, “AI Intensity and Firm Resilience: Evidence from Firm Performance under Disaster Shocks,” Information Systems Research, accepted.
  • Vinod Singhal and Jing Wu (2024), “The Bullwhip Effect and Stock Returns,” Production and Operations Management.
  • Vernon Hsu and Jing Wu (2023), “Inventory as a Financial Instrument: Evidence from China’s Metal Industries,” Management Science.
  • Senay Agca, John R. Birge, Zi’ang Wang, and Jing Wu (2023), “The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Credit Risk,” Production and Operations Management.
  • Michael Hertzel, Jie Peng, Jing Wu, and Yu Zhang (2023), “Global Supply Chains and Cross-Border Financing,” Production and Operations Management.
  • Jie Peng, Boluo Liu, Jing Wu, and Xiangang Xin (2023), “Financial Reporting Comparability and Global Supply Chains,” Journal of International Business Studies.
  • Jing Wu, Sean Zhou, and Zhaocheng Zhang (2022), “Credit Rating Prediction Through Supply Chains: A Machine Learning Application,” Production and Operations Management.
  • Senay Agca, Vlad Babich, John R. Birge, and Jing Wu (2021), “Credit Risk Propagation Along Supply Chains: Evidence from the CDS Market,” Management Science.
  • Christopher S. Tang, S. Alex Yang, and Jing Wu (2018), “Sourcing from Suppliers with Financial Constraints and Performance Risk,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

  Working Papers

  Geopolitics and Global Supply Chains

  • Ling Cen, Lauren Cohen, Jing Wu, and Fan Zhang, “The Golden Revolving Door,” in revision.
  • Haishi Li, Zhi Li, Ziho Park, Yulin Wang, and Jing Wu, “To Comply or Not to Comply: Understanding Developing Country Supply Chain Responses to Russian Sanctions,” to submit soon.
  • Vernon Hsu, Boya Peng, and Jing Wu, “Decoupling or Indirect Connections? The U.S.-China Trade War and Global Supply Chain Rerouting,” in revision.
  • Ben Charoengwong, Jie Peng, and Jing Wu, “Political Ideology and Global Sourcing,” working paper.
  • Weichen Wang, Jing Wu, and Zhaocheng Zhang, “Tensor Factor Analysis of Global Supply Chains,” working paper.

  Operations-Finance Interface

  • Ling Cen, Michael Hertzel, Zi’ang Wang, and Jing Wu, “Labor Coordination and Division: Human Capital Investment in Supply Chains,” in revision.
  • Jie Ning, Yu Tang, Jing Wu, and Jiaqi Zhu, “Risk Mitigation Role of Trade Credit for a Dual-Channel Supplier: Theory and Evidence,” in revision.
  • Nikolay Osadchiy, William Schmidt, and Jing Wu, “Customer Portfolio Approach to Managing Cash Flow Variability,” in revision.
  • Yifan Jia, Zheng Wang, Jing Wu, and Zilong Zhang, “The Spillover Effect of Customer CEO Myopia on Supplier Firms,” in revision.
  • Jing Wu, Hsiao-Hui Lee, and John R. Birge, “The Hidden World of Trade Credit: The Flexibility Role of Late Payments,” in revision.

  Sustainable Operations

  • Yilin Shi, Jing Wu, Yu Zhang, and Yuqing Zhou, “Green Image Management in Supply Chains: Strategic Disclosure of Corporate Suppliers,” in revision.
  • Ling Cen, Yanru Han, Chang Liu, and Jing Wu, “The Rise of Conscious Consumers: The Cash Flow Implications of Corporate Workplace Equality,” 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
  • Young Researcher Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2022
  • 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.