Research

The Bauer Human-Centered AI Lab is an interdisciplinary initiative — we seek to engage researchers in various fields and conduct use-inspired research that is practically important and theoretically grounded. The interdisciplinary initiative brings together research in fields like Information Systems, Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, and Computational Social Science.

2022

Supplier Bottleneck and Information Dissemination

Meng Li, Yue Li, Yang Zhang

Journal of Operations Management  ·  30 Aug 2022

complementary suppliersnewsvendorbehavioral operationsinformation dissemination

Managerial Regret and Inventory Pricing

Meng Li, Yan Liu

Management Science  ·  08 Feb 2022

revenue managementmanagerial biasdecision analysisanticipated regret

Manubot

2021

AI and Procurement

Ruomeng Cui, Meng Li, Shichen Zhang

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management  ·  20 Jul 2021

artificial intelligenceprocurement

Manubot

Transshipment Between Overconfident Newsvendors

Jialu Li, Meng Li, Xuan Zhao

Production and Operations Management  ·  20 Apr 2021

overconfidencetransshipmentbehavioral operations managementmanagerial bias

2020

Wholesale Price Discrimination in Global Sourcing

Ruomeng Cui, Jingyun Li, Meng Li, Lili Yu

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management  ·  07 May 2020

wholesale pricebusiness-to-business (B2B) marketplaceglobal sourcingmarket informationsocial information

2019

Value of High-Quality Logistics: Evidence from a Clash Between SF Express and Alibaba

Ruomeng Cui, Meng Li, Qiang Li

Management Science  ·  05 Dec 2019

deliveryservice qualityretail platformsales dispersionnatural experiment

Incumbent repositioning with decision biases

Xianjin Du, Meng Li, Brian Wu

Strategic Management Journal  ·  24 May 2019

behavioral strategyflexibilitymanagerial behavioroverconfidencerepositioning costs

2018

Overconfident Distribution Channels

Meng Li

Production and Operations Management  ·  21 Dec 2018

managerial biasbehavioral operationssupply chain

2016

Technical Note—Demand Uncertainty Reduction in Decentralized Supply Chains

Meng Li, Nicholas C. Petruzzi

Production and Operations Management  ·  23 Aug 2016

newsvendor modeldemand variance reductionpricingwholesale price contract

Overconfident Competing Newsvendors

Meng Li, Nicholas C. Petruzzi, Jun Zhang

Production and Operations Management  ·  30 Jun 2016

overconfidencedecision analysiscompetitive newsvendors

2015

Managing Inventory with Cash Register Information--Sales Recorded but Not Demands

Alain Bensoussan, Metin Çakanyildirim, Meng Li, Suresh P. Sethi

Production and Operations Management  ·  01 Oct 2015

inventory uncertaintyMarkov dynamic programminginvisible demandcensored demand