Wu, Jing
Wu, Jing 吳靖
B.Engr (Tsinghua); MBA, PhD (Chicago Booth)
Professor
Director, Master of Science Programme in Business Analytics
Director, Centre of Logistics Intelligence
Associate Director, Asian Institute of Supply Chains and Logistics
Contact
Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology
Room 920, 9/F
Cheng Yu Tung Building
12 Chak Cheung Street
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
+852 3943 5299
Biography
Jing Wu is a Professor at CUHK Business School and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (国家杰出青年科学基金). Since September 2026, he has been on sabbatical as a Visiting Professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. At a moment when geopolitics is rewriting the rules of global supply chains, his research builds the empirical science to understand it — using large-scale supply chain data, AI, and operations-finance mechanisms to reveal how firms adapt, hedge, and restructure under geopolitical fragmentation.
His research spans three interlocking frontiers. On geoeconomics and global supply chains, he has quantified how trade wars, sanctions, and geopolitical realignment reshape supply networks, credit risk, and corporate disclosure — work that has been covered by over 400 media outlets across more than 20 countries, including The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Forbes, and Barron’s. On the operations-finance interface, his work on credit risk propagation, trade credit, cross-border financing, and supply chain disclosure connects operational decisions to capital market outcomes. On AI and unstructured data in operations, he published the first Management Science paper to use large language models for text analysis and is the founder of GlobalLink AI, a domain-specific LLM for global supply chain intelligence.
Professor Wu has published over 30 refereed articles in leading journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Information Systems Research, and Production and Operations Management. He is the author of two monographs: Global Trends in Manufacturing Supply Chains (Springer, 2025) and 《全球供应链超级趋势》(CITIC, 2024).
Professor Wu serves as Associate Editor (Guest) for Management Science, Associate Editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management. He is the Steering Committee Chair and Founding Chair of the Workshop on Empirical Operations Management (WEOM) and will host the Supply Chain Thought Leaders (SCTL) Roundtable 2027 in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. At CUHK, he directs the Master of Science Programme in Business Analytics and serves as Associate Director of the Asian Institute of Supply Chains & Logistics and Director of the Centre of Cyber Logistics. His doctoral graduates have been placed as faculty at leading research universities across Asia, Australia, and Europe, including HKUST, Fudan, Sydney, Tilburg, and Tongji.
Prior to academia, Professor Wu was a quantitative investment strategist at Deutsche Bank (New York) and a business analyst at McKinsey & Company (Shanghai). Outside of the office, Professor Wu is an avid world traveler. He speaks Chinese, English, and Portuguese.
Teaching Areas
Geopolitics and Global Business Strategy
Advanced Topics in Global Operations and Supply Chains
Empirical Methods and Causal Inference in Operations
AI, Large Language Models and Business Analytics
FinTech, Quantitative Investing and Alternative Data
Research Interests
Geoeconomics and Global Supply Chains
Operations-Finance Interface and Supply Chain Finance
AI, Large Language Models and Empirical Analytics
Sustainable Operations and ESG Disclosure
Publications & Working Papers
Personal Monographs
- 全球供应链超级趋势, CITIC Publishing Group (中信出版集团), October 2024
- Global Trends in Manufacturing Supply Chains, Springer Publisher, April 2025
Refereed Publications
- Jie Ning, Yu Tang, Jing Wu, Jiaqi Zhu, “Risk Mitigation Role of Trade Credit for a Dual-channel Supplier: Theory and Evidence,” Management Science, accepted.
- Ling Cen, Yanru Han, Jiaping Qiu, Jing Wu, “Artificial Intelligence Along the Supply Chain,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, accepted.
- Jing Wu, Hsiao-Hui Lee, John R. Birge, “The Hidden World of Trade Credit: The Flexibility Role of Late Payments,” Production and Operations Management, accepted.
- Jing Wu, Yilin Shi, Yi Liao, “Addressing Supply Chain Carbon Emissions: Measurement, Reporting, and Reduction Strategies,” Production and Operations Management, accepted.
- Yimeng Niu, Jing Wu, “Internal Credit and External Blame: Attribution Bias in Supply Chain Performance,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, accepted.
- Yuxuan Zhang, Boya Peng, Jing Wu, “Integrating Operations and Finance for Sustainable Development: Theory, Practice, and Opportunities,” Production and Operations Management, accepted.
- Yilin Shi, Jing Wu, Yu Zhang, Yuqing Zhou, “Supply Chain Washing: Strategic Disclosure of Corporate Suppliers,” Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2026.
- Jonathan Hsu, Zhi Li, Jing Wu, “Supply Chain Nearshoring in Response to Regional Value Content Requirements,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2026.
- Nikolay Osadchiy, William Schmidt, Jing Wu, “Trade Credit and Customer Portfolio Approach to Managing Cash Flow Variability,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2025.
- Miaozhe Han, Hongchuan Shen, Jing Wu, Xiaoquan Zhang, “AI Intensity and Firm Resilience: Evidence from Firm Performance under Disaster Shocks,” Information Systems Research, 2025.
- Yimeng Niu, Niklas Werle, Morris A. Cohen, Shiliang Cui, Vinayak Deshpande, Ricardo Ernst, Arnd Huchzermeier, Andy Tsay, Jing Wu, “Restructuring Global Supply Chains: Navigating Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2025.
- Yilin Shi, Christopher S. Tang, Jing Wu, “Are Firms Disclosing Emissions Voluntarily Greener?,” Production and Operations Management, 2025.
- Matthew Cedergren, Ting Luo, Jing Wu, Jianqiao Yu, and Yue Zhang. “Spillover Effects of Credit Default Swaps on Corporate Disclosure along the Supply Chain,” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2025.
- Yimeng Niu, Jing Wu, Shenyang Jiang, Zhibin Jiang, “The Bullwhip Effect in Servitized Manufacturers,” Management Science, 2024 (First Management Science paper using Large Language Model for text analysis).
- Ling Cen, Yanru Han, Jing Wu, “Equal Employment Opportunity in Supply Chains,” Production and Operations Management, 2024.
- Vinod Singhal and Jing Wu, “The Bullwhip Effect and Stock Returns,” Production and Operations Management, 2024.
- Vernon Hsu and Jing Wu “Inventory as a Financial Instrument: Evidence from China’s Metal Industries,” Management Science, 2023.
- Jie Peng, Boluo Liu, Jing Wu, Xiangang Xin, “Financial Reporting Comparability and Global Supply Chains,” Journal of International Business Studies, 2023.
- Senay Agca, John R. Birge, Zi’ang Wang, Jing Wu, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Credit Risk,” Production and Operations Management, 2023.
- Haoyuan Ding, Yichuan Hu, Han Jiang, Jing Wu, Yu Zhang “Social Embeddedness and Supply Chains: Doing Business with Friends vs. Making Friends in Business,” Production and Operations Management, 2023.
- Michael Hertzel, Jie Peng, Jing Wu, Yu Zhang, “Global Supply Chains and Cross-Border Financing,” Production and Operations Management, 2023.
- Ben Charoenwong, Miaozhe Han, Jing Wu, “Trade and Foreign Economic Policy Uncertainty in Supply Chain Networks,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022.
- Jing Wu, Sean Zhou, Zhaocheng Zhang, “Credit Rating Prediction Through Supply Chains: A Machine Learning Application,” Production and Operations Management, 2022.
- Senay Agca, John Birge, Jing Wu “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Sourcing of Medical Supplies,” European Society of Medicine, 2022.
- Senay Agca, Vlad Babich, John R. Birge, Jing Wu, “Credit Risk Propagation Along Supply Chains: Evidence from the CDS Market,” Management Science, 2021.
- Nikolay Osadchiy, William Schmidt, Jing Wu, “The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Networks,” Management Science, 2021.
- William Schmidt, Nikolay Osadchiy, and Jing Wu. “The Right Way to Mix and Match your Customers,” MIT Sloan Management Review, 2021.
- Christopher S. Tang, S. Alex Yang, Jing Wu, “Sourcing from Suppliers with Financial Constraints and Performance Risk,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2018.
Papers under Review or Revision
Geopolitics and Global Supply Chains
- Xabier Barriola, Zhi Li, Jing Wu, “The Route Not Taken: Adjustment Headroom and Firm Response to the Panama Canal Expansion.”
- Yanduo Chen, Jing Wu, “The Geoeconomics of Imports: Evidence from the United Nations Security Council.”
- Zeyun Bei, Yaxuan Qi, Jing Wu, Yinggang Zhou, “Navigating Geopolitical Risk: How do Sanctions Shape Global Supply Chains?”
- Ling Cen, Lauren Cohen, Jing Wu, Fan Zhang, “The Golden Revolving Door.”
- Haishi Li, Zhi Li, Ziho Park, Yulin Wang, Jing Wu, “To Comply or Not to Comply: Understanding Neutral Country Supply Chain Responses to Russian Sanctions.”
- Vernon Hsu, Boya Peng, Jing Wu, “Decoupling or Indirect Connections? The U.S.-China Trade War and Global Supply Chain Rerouting.”
- Ben Charoengwong, Jie Peng, Jing Wu, “Political Ideology and Global Sourcing.”
Operations-Finance Interface
- Chang Suk Bae, Jen Choi, Jeong Ho (John) Kim, Jing Wu, “Firm Innovation Outcomes and Trade Credit Financing.”
- Kashish Arora, Boya Peng, Jing Wu, “Cost Shocks and Production Reorganization: Evidence from the Goods and Services Tax Reform in India.”
- Ling Cen, Michael Hertzel, Yilin Shi, Jing Wu, “Labor Coordination and Division: Human Capital Investment in Supply Chains.”
- Yanru Han, Jing Wu, Shuyue Yi, Kailun Zhang, “The Impact of Shared Customers on Supplier Innovation Collaboration.”
- Xiaoran Ma, Brian W. Jacobs, Vinod Singhal, Jing Wu, “Stock Market Reaction to the October 2022 US Export Restrictions of Semiconductor Technology to China”
Artificial Intelligence and Operations Management
- Han Jiang, Xiaoran Ma, Jing Wu, “Simulating Firm-level Decision Making With LLMs: A Scalable Experimental Framework.”
- Xiaoran Ma, Di (Andrew) Wu, Jing Wu, “When Artificial Intelligence Meets Behavioral Studies: A Framework with Large Language Models.”
- Jincheng Fang, Jia Liu, Ying Liu, Jing Wu, “Decoding the Sales Impact of Persuasive Strategies in Livestream Selling.”
Sustainable Operations Management
- Mingxia Li, Yimeng Niu, Jing Wu, “Drawing Borders, Losing Talent: Geopolitical Risk and Workforce Reallocation.”
- Haoyuan Ding, Daming Huang, Jing Wu, “Climate Shocks in Global Supply Chains: Lead Time Delay, Inventory Buffering, and Firm Performance.”
- Ling Cen, Yanru Han, Chang Liu, Jing Wu, “The Rise of Conscious Consumers: The Cash Flow Implications of Corporate Workplace Equality.”
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
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, NSFC, RMB2,800,000, Principal Investigator, 2026-2031
- GRF Fund, “Global Supply Chain Adjustments under Geopolitical Risks,” HK$740,000, Principal Investigator, 2026–2027
- Corporate Innovation Index – “Unlocking Innovation Potential among the SMEs,” HKSAG, HK$3,000,000, Co-Principal Investigator, 2023-2025
- NSFC Young Researcher Fund, “Global Supply Chain Risks and Restructuring: An Empirical Study,” RMB300,000, Principal Investigator, 2023–2025
- 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
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category A), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2026
- Faculty Teaching Merit Award, 2024
- M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2023
- Young Researcher Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023
- 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 12th 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, Management Science, 07/2025 – Present
- 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.
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