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- Ph.D, Operations Management, R.H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
- B.Sc., Physics, HKUST
Professor Weiming Zhu is an Associate Professor of Innovation and Information Management at HKU Business School. Weiming obtained his bachelor’s degree in Physics from HKUST and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, Weiming was an Associate Professor in IESE’s Department of Production, Technology and Operations Management. He has also been a visiting professor in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT and in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Professor Weiming’s research interests include operations in the platform economy, urban mobility, and supply chain finance. His work has been published in Management Science, M&SOM and the Journal of International Economics, and has been recognized in best‐paper award competitions such as M&SOM, POMS, Service Science and CSAMSE.
In addition, Professor Weiming teaches Operations Strategy and Data Analytics for Managers at both MBA and Executive levels. He was named one of Poets & Quants’ 2025 Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors and received the Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Postgraduate Teaching) in 2024 at HKU.
- Empirical Operations Management
- Economics of Operations Management
- The Sharing Economy
- Operations – Finance Interface
- An Empirical Analysis of Market Formation, Pricing, and Revenue Sharing in Ride-Hailing Services (with Liu Ming, Tunay I. Tunca and Yi Xu). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming, 2025
- Choice Overload and the Long Tail: Consideration Sets and Purchases in Online Platforms (with Diego Aparicio and Drazen Prelec). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(2), 496-515, 2025. doi:10.1287/msom.2021.0318.
- Estimating and Exploiting the Impact of Photo Layout: A Structural Approach (with Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi and Michelle Wu). Management Science, 69(9), 4973-5693, 2023.
- Buyer Intermediation in Supplier Finance (with Tunay I. Tunca). Management Science, 64 (12), 5461 – 5959. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2017.2863.
- The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and Welfare Gains from e-Commerce (with Jingting Fan, Lixin Tang and Ben Zou). Journal of International Economics, 114, 203 – 220. doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.07.002.
- The Incentive Game under Target Effects in Ridesharing: A Structural Econometric Analysis (with Xirong Chen, Zheng Li and Liu Ming). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24 (2), 972-992. doi:10.1287/msom.2021.1002.
- Improving Channel Efficiency through Financial Guarantees by Large Supply Chain Participants (with Tunay I. Tunca), 2017. Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management 10, no. 3-4 (2017), pp.289-304.
- Poets & Quants 2025 Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors
- Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Postgraduate Teaching), 2024
- Second Prize, INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Award Competition, 2021
- Winner, MSOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award, 2019
- Honorable Mention, Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), Best Paper Award, July 2017
- Finalist, MSOM Student Paper Competition, November 2016
- First Prize, POMS Supply Chain Student Paper Competition, May 2016
- Honorable Mention, Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), Best Paper Award, July 2015
- Alibaba Running Water Project funding, The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and Welfare Gains from e-Commerce, April 2015
- Referee for Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
港大经管学院创新及资讯管理学副教授朱未名教授,在最近接受凤凰卫视的访问中指出,线上销售的核心优势之一在于其近乎无限的商品种类。他以淘宝为例,平台上可同时售卖数千万件产品,而传统实体零售店的存货量(SKU)最多仅有数千至一万件,两者规模差异巨大。