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Navigating Shifts- Geopolitical and Post-Covid Supply Chain Realignment:
Implications for the Mainland and Hong Kong

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Date: 7 November, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Loke Yew Hall, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong
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Global supply chains have faced tremendous stresses from geopolitical friction, disaster disruptions, and increasing stakeholder interests on sustainability.  At the same time, technologies have offered innovations for corporations to create opportunities.  In this lecture, Professor Hau Lee will outline three strategic challenges that confront corporations in this turbulent time, and share his views on how the Mainland and Hong Kong could be in a position to gain control of such challenges.

Hau L. Lee

Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor Emeritus of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.  His areas of specialization include global supply chain management, entrepreneurship and innovations in developing economies, and value chain strategy.

Professor Lee has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, IIE Transactions, and Interfaces, etc.  He has served on the editorial boards of many international journals.  From 1997-2003, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science.

Professor Lee was inducted to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010.  He was elected a Fellow of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2001; Production and Operations Management Society, 2005; and INFORMS, 2005.  In 2006-7, he was the President of the Production and Operations Management Society.  His article, “The Triple-A Supply Chain,” was the Second Place Winner of the McKinsey Award for the Best Paper in 2004 in the Harvard Business Review.  In 2004, his co-authored paper in 1997, “Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect,” was voted as one of the ten most influential papers in the history of Management Science.  His co-authored paper, “The Impact of Logistics Performance on Trade,” won the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award by the Production and Operations Management Society in 2014. In 2003, he received the Harold Lardner Prize for International Distinction in Operations Research, Canadian Operations Research Society.

Professor Lee has consulted extensively in the private sector.  He co-founded DemandTec, a price-optimization company that went public in NASDAQ in 2007.  He is an independent non-executive director of TD Synnex, Silvaco, and the Lion Rock Group.

Professor Lee obtained his B.Soc.Sc. degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Hong Kong in 1974, his M.Sc. degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics in 1975, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.  He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, an Honorary Doctorate from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Honorary Doctorate in Management from Macau University, and Honorary Doctor of Science in Economics from the London Business School..

Ms. Marjorie Yang
Chairman of Esquel Group

Professor Max Shen
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), Chair Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, HKU

Mr. Andy Tung
Vice Chairman of China-United States Exchange Foundation

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Live Streaming on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/1jhxMXlqZT8