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Professor Emeritus

Professor Li has research interests in operations management and strategy, including time-based competition, technology choice, supply chain information sharing and coordination, service operations, and management of international manufacturing networks. A native of Shanghai, China, he was a research fellow in economics at the California Institute of Technology and an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty of Yale in 1989. He is a member of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Achievements and Awards
Sloan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1983-1984
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant sponsored by Hong Kong Research Grant Council, 1996-1998

Editorships
Associate Editor:
Management Science (1997-present)
Operations Research (1992-1996)

Selected Book Chapters
"Applications of Game Theory in Operations Management and Information Systems" (with S. Whang), in K. Catterjee, ed., Business Applications of Game Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2001

"Supply Chain Information Sharing in a Competitive Environment" (with H. Zhang), in J.S. Song and D. Yao, eds., Supply Chain Structures: Coordination, Information and Optimization, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2001

Selected Articles
"Price and Delivery Logistics Competition in a Supply Chain" (with A. Ha and S.M. Ng), Management Science, 49, No. 9, 1139-1153, 2003

"Information Sharing in a Supply Chain with Horizontal Competition" Management Science, Vol. 48, No. 9,
1196-1212, 2002

"Optimal Operating Policies for Multi-Plant Stochastic Manufacturing Systems in a Changing Environment" (with E. L. Porteus and H. Zhang), Management Science, Vol. 47, No. 11, 1539-1551, 2001

"The Multi-Stage Service Facility Startup and Capacity Model" (with H. Zhang), Operations Research, Vol. 48, No.3, 490-497, 2000

"Optimal Operating Policies in the Presence of Exchange Rate Variability" (with S. Dasu), Management Science, Vol. 43, No. 5, 705-722, 1997

"Pricing, Production, Scheduling and Delivery-Time Competition" (with P.J. Lederer), Operations Research, Vol. 45, No. 3, 1997

"The Service Facility Start-Up and Capacity Model and Its Application to the National Cranberry Case" (with X. Wang), Operations Research, Vol. 44, No. 1, 1996

"Pricing and Delivery Performance in a Competitive Environment" (with Y. Lee), Management Science, Vol. 40, 1994

Education
PhD Northwestern University, 1984
MS Northwestern University, 1982
BA Fudan University, Shanghai, 1979