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Fuqiang Zhang


Assistant Professor of Operations Manufacturing Management


Research interests:

Supply chain management; Consumer behavior in operations management; Inventory and production planning, Game Theory, incentives and mechanism design; Energy and environment

Selected Publications:

  • "On the Value of Commitment and Availability Guarantees When Selling to Strategic Consumers," Management Science, Issue 55, 713-726, with X. Su, Summer 2009
  • "Dynamic Capacity Management with Substitution," Operations Research, Issue 57, 671-684, with R. Shumsky, 2009
  • "Strategic Customer Behavior, Commitment, and Supply Chain Performance," Management Science, Issue 54, 1759-1773, with X. Su, Summer 2009
  • "Obtaining Fast Delivery in a Queuing System via Performance-Based Allocation of Demand," Management Science, Issue 53 (3), 408-420, with G. Cachon, 2007
  • "Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole-Sourcing With Information Asymmetry," Management Science, Issue 52(6), 881-896, with G. Cachon, 2006
  • "Competition, Cooperation and Information sharing in a Two-Echelon Assembly System," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Issue 8(3), 273-291, 2006

Academic/professional activities:

Member, INFORMS
Member, MSOM Society
Member, POMS

Awards/honors:

Distinguished Service Award, from Management Science, 2009
Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 2009
Boeing Center for Technology, Information & Manufacturing Research Grant, 2008
Meritorious Service Award for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM), 2006
Young Researcher Roundtable Nominee, INFORMS Conference on OR/MS Practice, 2005
OPIM Outstanding Scholar Award, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2003

Fuqiang Zhang

  Professor Zhang received his Ph.D. in Operations and Information Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He joined Olin Business School in July, 2007. Prior to joining Olin, he was a professor at the Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Professor Zhangs research interests are in supply chain management, which primarily deals with how to match supply with demand. The first part of his research focuses on how a firm should contract with upstream suppliers to ensure efficient and responsive supply, i.e., the supply side. The second part of his research is concerned with how to deal with strategic customer behavior that may affect a firms operational strategies, i.e., the demand side. His research work has been published in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Operations Research.

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Email: FZhang22@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-4580

Ph.D. (Operations and Information Management) 2004, University of Pennsylvania