Professor Lode Li is a visiting professor of operations management at Cheung Kong. He is also professor of operations management at the Yale School of Management. Li received a Ph. D. in management economics and decision sciences from Northwestern University in 1984.

He previously taught at 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 and was awarded an honorary Master of Arts by Yale University.

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

"Confidentiality and Information Sharing in Supply Chain Coordination," with H. Zhang, Management Science, 54, No. 8, 1467-1481, 2008.   "Price and Delivery Logistics Competition in a Supply Chain," with Ha A. & S. M. Ng, Management Science, 49, No. 9, 1139-1153, 2003.

"Information Sharing in a Supply Chain with Horizontal Competition," Management Science, 48, No. 9, 1196-1212, 2002.

"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.

"The Multi-Stage Service Facility Startup and Capacity Model" (with H. Zhang), Operations Research, Vol. 48, No.3, 490-497, 2000.

"Optimal Operating Policies in the Presence of Exchange Rate Variability" (with S. Dasu), Management Science, Vol. 43, No. 5, 705-722, 1997.

"Pricing, Production, Scheduling and Delivery-Time Competition" (with P.J. Lederer), Operations Research, Vol. 45, No. 3, 1997.

"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.

"Pricing and Delivery Performance in a Competitive Environment" (with Y. Lee), Management Science, Vol. 40, 1994.

"A Common Value Auction Model with Endogenous Entry and Information Acquisition" (with D. Hausch), Economic Theory, 3, 1993.