Dr. Lode Li is a Professor of Operations Management at CKGSB.  Li received a Ph.D. in management economics and decision sciences from Northwestern University in 1984.

He previously taught at Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has taught courses on game theory, supply chain management, services management and time-based competition, manufacturing policy and competitiveness, spreadsheet modeling and simulation and cost accounting. 

Li co-authored selected chapters of Business Applications of Game Theory and Supply Chain Structures: Coordination, Information and Optimization and has published widely on operations management, management science, economics and accounting.

He has received research funding from the Sloan Foundation and Hong Kong Research Foundation.

Li is a member of the Institute for Management Science and Operations Research.

1. "Confidentiality and Information Sharing in Supply Chain Coordination" (with H. Zhang), Management Science, 54, No. 8, 1467-1481, 2008.  
2. "Price and Delivery Logistics Competition in a Supply Chain" (with Ha A. & S. M. Ng), Management Science, 49, No. 9, 1139-1153, 2003.
3. "Information Sharing in a Supply Chain with Horizontal Competition," Management Science, 48, No. 9, 1196-1212, 2002.
4. "Optimal Operating Policies for Multi-Plant Stochastic Manufacturing Systems in a Changing Environment" (with E. L. Porteus and H. Zhang), Management Science, 47, No. 11, 1539-1551, 2001.
5. "The Multi-Stage Service Facility Startup and Capacity Model" (with H. Zhang), Operations Research, Vol. 48, No.3, 490-497, 2000.
6. "Optimal Operating Policies in the Presence of Exchange Rate Variability" (with S. Dasu), Management Science, Vol. 43, No. 5, 705-722, 1997.
7. "Pricing, Production, Scheduling and Delivery-Time Competition" (with P.J. Lederer), Operations Research, Vol. 45, No. 3, 1997.
8. "The Service Facility Start-Up and Capacity Model and Its Application to the National Cranberry Case" (with X. Wang), Operations Research, Vol. 44, No. 1, 1996.
9. "Pricing and Delivery-Time Performance in a Competitive Environment" (with Y. Lee), Management Science, Vol. 40, 1994.
10. "A Common Value Auction Model with Endogenous Entry and Information Acquisition" (with D. Hausch), Economic Theory, 3, 1993. 
11. "The Role of Inventory in Delivery-Time Competition," Management science, 38, 182-197, 1992.
12. "Subcontracting, Coordination, Flexibility, and Production Smoothing in Aggregate Planning" (with M. Kamien), Management Science, 36, No. 11, 1353-1363.
13. "Continuous Time Stopping Games with Monotone Reward Structures" (with C. Huang), Mathematics of Operations Research, 5, No. 3, 496-507, 1990.
14. "Bertrand Competition with Subcontracting" (with M. Kamien and S. Samet), Rand Journal of Economics, 20, No. 4, 553-567, 1989.
15. "Equilibrium Exit in Stochastically Declining Industries" (with C. Fine), Games and Economic Behavior, 1, 40-59, 1989.
16. "A Stochastic Theory of the Firms," Mathematics of Operations Research, 13, No. 3, 447-466, 1988.
17. "On the Allocation of Fixed and Variable Cost from Service Departments" (with B. Balachandran and R. Magee), Contemporary Accounting Research, 4, No. 1, 164-185, 1987.
18. "Optimal Research for Cournot Oligopolists" (with D. Mckelvey and T. Page), Journal of Economic Theory, 42, No. 1, 140-166, 1987.
19. "Cournot Oligopoly with Information Sharing," Rand Journal of Economics, 16, No. 4, 521-536, 1985.