Yi Xu | Smith School

Yi Xu

Associate Professor of Operations Management

Ph.D., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Contact

yxu1@umd.edu

4317 Van Munching Hall

Yi Xu is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in online platform operations, sharing economy, pricing, and innovation management. His research articles have appeared in Management Science, Marketing Science,Production and Operations Management, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, among others. He is a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. Professor Xu teaches Operations Management, Pricing and Revenue Management, and Lean Management in the MBA, MS, EMBA and Executive Education Programs at the Smith School. He has taught for and consulted with several Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Professor Xu has been a frequent presenter and speaker at international conferences.

Publications

Huang, P., G. Lyu, and Y. Xu. 2021. Quality Regulation on Two-sided Platforms: Exclusion, Subsidy, and First-party Application. Management Science, Forthcoming.
Tian, Z., H. Gurnani, and Y. Xu. 2021. Collaboration in Development of New Drugs. Production and Operations Management, 30 (11), 3943-3966.
Nakkas, A. and Xu, Y. 2019. The Impact of Valuation Heterogeneity on Equilibrium Prices in Supply Chain Networks. Production and Operations Management, 28(2), 241-257.
Xiao, W and Xu, Y. 2018. Should an Online Retailer Penalize its Independent Sellers for Stockout? Production and Operations Management, 27(6), 1124-1132.
Dong, Y. K. Xu, Y. Xu and S. Wan. 2016. Quality Management in Multi-level Supply Chains with Outsourced Manufacturing. Production and Operations Management. 25(2) 290-305.
Xiao, W. and Y. Xu. 2012. The impact of royalty contract revision in a multi-stage strategic R&D alliance. Management Science. 58(12) 2251–2271.
Kok, G. and Y. Xu. 2011. Optimal and competitive assortments with endogenous pricing under hierarchical consumer choice models. Management Science. 57(9) 1546–1563.
Xu, Y., H. Gurnani, and R. Desiraju. 2010. Strategic supply chain structure design for a proprietary component manufacturer. Production and Operations Management. 19(4) 371-389. [Lead article]
Terwiesch, C. and Y. Xu. 2008. Innovation contests, open innovation, and multi-agent problem solving. Management Science. 54(9) 1529-1543. [Lead article]
Cachon, G.P., C. Terwiesch, and Y. Xu. 2008. On the effects of consumer search and firm entry in a multiproduct competitive market. Marketing Science. 27(3) 461-473.
Gurnani, H. and Y. Xu. 2006. Resale price maintenance contracts with retailer sales effort: Effect of flexibility and competition. Naval Research Logistics. 53(5) 448-463.
Cachon, G.P., C. Terwiesch, and Y. Xu. 2005. Retail assortment decision in the presence of consumer search.Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 7(4) 330-346.
Terwiesch, C. and Y. Xu. 2004. The Copy-Exactly ramp-up strategy: Trading-off learning with process change. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 51 (1) 70-84.