Publications
Tao Lu. Shipment Monitoring, Allocation and the Impact on Food Waste. Management Science. Forthcoming. [Download]
Tao Lu and Brian Tomlin (2026). Credible cheap-talk communication of private demand information on both the forecast average and accuracy. Management Science 72(2): 989-1006. [Download]
X. Lin, Tao Lu, X. Wang, G. Kou (2025). Mergers between on-demand service platforms: The impact on consumer surplus and labor welfare. Information Systems Research 36(3): 1612 – 1630. [Download]
Tao Lu (2024). Can a supplier's yield risk be truthfully communicated via cheap talk? Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 26(6):2179-2193. [Download]
Tao Lu and Brian Tomlin (2023). Forewarned is forearmed? Contingent sourcing, shipment information and supplier competition. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 25(5): 1796-1813. [Download]
Tao Lu, Zhichao Zheng and Yuanguang Zhong (2023). Maximizing the benefits of an on-demand workforce: Fill rate-based allocation and coordination mechanisms. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25 (6), 2216-2232. [Download]
Y. Tong, Tao Lu, Y. Li and F. Ye. Encroachment by a better-informed manufacturer. European Journal of Operational Research. 305(3), 1113-1129.
Tao Lu and Brian Tomlin (2022). Sourcing from a self-reporting supplier: Strategic communication of social responsibility in a supply chain. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24(2), 902-920. [Download]
A. Giudici, Tao Lu, C. Thielen, R. Zuidwijk (2021). An analysis of the stability of hinterland container transport cooperation. Transportation Science 55(5):1170-1186 .[Download]
Tao Lu, Ying-Ju Chen, Jan C. Fransoo and Chung-Yee Lee (2020). Shipping to heterogeneous customers with competing carriers. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 22(4): 850-867. [Download] [Supplemental Material]
Tao Lu, Chung-Yee Lee and Loo-Hay Lee (2020). Coordinating pricing and empty container repositioning in two-depot systems. Transportation Science. 54(6):1697–1713. [Download]
Tao Lu, Ying-Ju Chen, Brian Tomlin and Yimin Wang (2019). Selling co-products through a distributor: The impact on product line design. Production and Operations Management. 28(4): 1010-1032. [Download]
Tao Lu, Jan C. Fransoo and Chung-Yee Lee (2017). Carrier portfolio management for shipping seasonal products. Operations Research. 65(5), 1250-1266.[Download]
Featured in INFORMS Editor's Cut on Agribusiness, "Feeding the World through Analytics, 2nd Edition"
Chung-Yee Lee and Tao Lu (2015). Inventory competition with yield reliability improvement. Naval Research Logistics. 62(2): 107-126.[Download]
Augmenting the Operations Manager with a Prediction Machine (with Brian Tomlin)
Precision Agriculture: Yield Prediction, Cost Reduction and (Unintended) Implications on Farmer Welfare (with Wei Zheng and Zhong-Zhong Jiang)
"We Pay Living Wages": Operational and Welfare Implications of Social Responsibility Pledges in a Supply Chain (with Lan Lu, Yimin Wang, Reihane Boghrati)
The Value of Negative Self-Disclosure in Supply Chain Social Responsibility (with Shi Chen and Yang Tong)
How to Balance Cost-Efficiency and Environmental Compliance for Liners (with D Zhuge et al.)
The Payment Term Paradox: A Theory of Credible Communication in Supply Chain Finance (with Tiantian Li, Fasheng Xu and Jianwen Luo)
Research Grant
Co-PI, "Harnessing Mobility Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Through a Transdisciplinary Research Network in Food Production, Processing, and Consumption Systems”, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Data Science for Food and Agriculture Systems, 2022-2026, $1,000,000.