Rate My Professor Ming Hu

Hu's research specializes in operations management, particularly in the sharing economy, social buying, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and two-sided markets. His influential publications include 'Product and Pricing Decisions in Crowdfunding' with X. Li and M. Shi (Marketing Science, 2015), 'Operations Management in the Age of the Sharing Economy: What Is Old and What Is New?' with S. Benjaafar (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020), 'Dynamic Pricing of Perishable Assets under Competition' with G. Gallego (Management Science, 2014), 'Dynamic Type Matching' with Y. Zhou (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022), 'Food Delivery Service and Restaurant: Friend or Foe?' with M. Chen and J. Wang (Management Science, 2022), 'Liking and Following and the Newsvendor: Operations and Marketing Policies Under Social Influence' with J. Milner and J. Wu (Management Science, 2016), and 'Simultaneous vs. Sequential Group-Buying Mechanisms' with M. Shi and J. Wu (Management Science, 2013). He has received the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award from the Production and Operations Management Society in 2016, the Best Operations Management Paper in Management Science Award from INFORMS in 2017, and was named one of Poets & Quants' Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors in 2018. His research has been featured in the Financial Times.