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
•   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

Publications
Book Chapters (Refereed)

•    "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.
•      "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.
•    "The Controversial Roles of GPOs in Healthcare-Product Supply Chains?" with L. Schwarz, Produc- tion and Operations Management, 20(1), 1-15, 2011.
•       "Network Game and Capacity Investment Under Market Uncertainty," Production and Operations Management, 19(1), 98-110, 2010.
•    "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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