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Associate Professor
Department of Operations
Weatherhead School of Management
Case Western Reserve University
10090 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106
Email: qxw132 AT case DOT edu
Qi Wu, PhD, received her doctoral degree in Information, Risk and Operations Management from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. She also holds master’s degrees in Mathematics and Statistics from University of South Carolina, and a bachelor’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
Globalization and increased variety of products have impacted the uncertainty in both demand and supply. The changes, though gradual, have accumulated over time and posed enormous difficulties in planning procurement. Qi Wu studies strategies that help firms tackle this challenge using stochastic control and econometric models. She is particularly interested in problems related to assortment planning and the impact of risk and financial factors on operational decisions.
Research Interests
Empirical Research in Operations Management
Finance and Operations Management Interface
Risk Management
Stochastic Control
Publications
Lai, Guoming, Peter Ritchken, Qi Wu (2023) the Interplay of Production Flexibility and Financing Strategy Forthcoming Manufacturing & Service Operations management
Wu. Q., Honhon D. (2022) Don't Waste that Free Lettuce! Impact of BOGOF Promotions on Waste, Production and Operations Management. 32(2)
Wu. Q., Lai G. (2021), The Roles of Excess Inventory with Stock Price Interest, Management Science 68 (7)
Ritchken, P., Wu, Q. (2020), Capacity Investment, Production Flexibility and Capital Structure, Production and Operations Management 30 (12)
Wu, Q., Muthuraman, K., Seshadri, S. (2019) Effect of financing costs and constraints on real investments: The case of inventories. Production and Operations Management. 28(10).
Wang X., Wu, Q., Lai, G., Scheller-Wolf, A. (2019) Offering Discretionary Healthcare Services with Medical Consumption. Production and Operations Management. 28(9).
Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G., Qi, A., Wu, Q. (2019) Optimal incentive contracts in project management. Production and Operations Management. 28(6).
Wu, Q., Sak, H., Seshadri, S., Hakoz, C. (2018) Supplier Portfolio Risk Assessment Considering Breach of Contract and Market Risks. Risk and Decision Analysis. 7(3-4).
Muthuraman, K., Seshadri, S., Wu, Q. (2015). Inventory Management with Stochastic Lead Time. Mathematics of Operations Research. 40(2). [pdf]
Feng, H., Wu, Q., Muthuraman, K., Deshpande, V. (2015). Replenishment Policies for Multi-Product Stochastic Inventory Systems with Correlated Demand and Joint-Replenishment Costs. Production and Operations Management. 24(4) [pdf]
Seshadri, S., Wu, Q. (2014). Production and Inventory Planning under Decreasing Absolute Risk Aversion: A Unified Approach for Sensitivity Analysis. Risk and Decision Analysis. 5(1).
Janakiraman, G., Park, S., Seshadri, S., Wu, Q. (2013). New results on the newsvendor model and the multi-period inventory model with backordering. Operations Research Letters. 41(4). [pdf]
