Qiaohai (Joice) Hu received her PhD from Case
Western Reserve University. Before joining University of Missouri St. Louis, she
served on the faculty at Purdue University , Washington University St. Louis and City
University of Hong Kong.
Her research
interests are interdisciplinary, including supply chain finance, interface
between supply chain management, accounting, and marketing. She has published papers in elite academic journals such as Manufacturing, Services and Operations
Management, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operations Research, Operations
Research Letters, Decision Sciences. She serves as a
senior editor for Production and
Operations Management, and ad hoc reviewer for Management Science,
Operations Research, Manufacturing, Services and Operations Management, IIE
Transactions, Navel Research Logistics, European Journal of Operations
Research, and Operations Research Letters.
Before returning to academia,
she worked as a supply chain analyst at FedEx
Supply Chain Services at Ohio and Eastcom,
one of the earliest telecommunication equipment manufacturers in East China.
She has taught
courses at all levels, including Operations/Supply
Chain Management, Quality Management, Procurement and Strategic Sourcing,
International Operations Management, Business Statistics, Quantitative and
Decision Making Models, Spreadsheet Modeling, and Stochastic Models. Before returning to academia,
she worked as a supply chain analyst at FedEx
Supply Chain Services at Ohio and Eastcom,
one of the earliest telecommunication equipment manufacturers in East China. In her spare time,
Dr. Hu enjoys classical music, reading, yoga, meditation/qigong, hiking and
travelling. Recently, her reading
interests focus on anything that explores and explains human nature.
Industry Experience
- Supply chain analyst, FedEx Supply Chain Services,
Inc., 2000–2001
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Operations analyst, Eastern Communication Corp. China, 1995–1998
Academic Position- Assistant Professor, University of Missour St. Louis 2017--
- Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong 2013-2017
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Washington St. Louis 2011-2013
- Assistant Professor, Purdue University 2006-2011
PublicationsBook
Chapters (Refereed)
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"Debt Financing
and Supply Chain Capacity
Investment," Entitled as "Supply Chain Finance", Founda- tions and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management," edited by P. Kouvelis, L. Dong, and D. Turcic, NOW, forthcoming.
- "Debt Financing and Supply Chain Competition," Entitled as "Supply Chain Finance", Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations
Management," edited by P. Kouvelis, L. Dong, and D. Turcic, NOW, forthcoming.
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"Bank Financing
Newsvendor Inventory: Coordinating Loan Schedules," Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply
Chains, edited by P. Kouvelis, L. Dong, O. Boyabath and R. Li, John
Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- "Production/Inventory Management and Capital Structure," Handbook
of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains, edited by P. Kouvelis, L. Dong , O. Boyabath,
and R. Li, John Wiley & Sons,2011
Journal Articles-
"Inventory Management
and Debt Maturity Structure,"
forthcoming, Production and Operations Man- agement, 2017
- "Flexible Procurement Contracts for Competing Retailers: The Manufacturer ’s Perspective,"
with J. Chen and M. Dada, European Journal
of Operations Research, 259(1),
130-142 , 2017.
- "Project Portfolio
Selection: A Newsvendor Approach," with J. Szmerekovsky, Decision Sciences,
48(1), 176-199, 2017.
- "Designing Supply Contracts: Buy-Now, Reserve and Wait-And-See,"
with J. Chen and M. Dada, IIE Transactions, 28(10), 881-900,2016.
- "Manufacturing Capacity Decisions With Demand Uncertainty and Tax Cross-Crediting" with V. Hsu
and W. Xiao, Manufacturing & Services Operations Management, 17(3),
384-398, 2015.
- "The Impact of GPOs on Healthcare Product Supply Chains," with L. Schwarz and N. Uhan, Manu-
facturing & Services
Operations Management, 14(1), 7-23, 2012.
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"The Controversial Roles of GPOs in Healthcare-Product Supply
Chains?" with L. Schwarz, Produc- tion and Operations Management, 20(1), 1-15, 2011.
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"Network Game and Capacity
Investment Under Market Uncertainty," Production and Operations
Management, 19(1), 98-110, 2010.
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"Financing Newsvendor Inventory,"
with M. Dada, Operations
Research Letters,
36, 269-273, 2008.
- "Echelon Base-Stock Policies are
Financially Sub-Optimal," with M. Sobel, Operations Research Letters, 35, 561-566, 2007
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