Bio Sketch

Yimin Wang
PhD (UNC Chapel Hill)
Feb 2024

Welcome

I am an associate professor at Arizona State University. My research focuses on strategies to improve supply chain risilience, social responsibilities, and to mitigate supply chain risk propagation. If you have any questions or suggestions related to my research, please reach out at yimin_wang@asu.edu. I am always interested in hearing your suggestions and comments.


Research

Some Current Projects

  1. Firm social responsibility and resilience.
  2. Sourcing under random yield with cardinality constraints.
  3. Product quality and social responsibility practice: Spillovers of moral credit.

Revising

  1. Wang Y., S. Webster. Health Product Volume Allocation in Pooled Procurement: Process versus Efficacy Innovations. 2024.
  2. Chen X., N. Ma, Y. Wang, S. Webster. Pooled Procurement of Health Products for LMICs. 2024.
  3. Kull T., Wang Y., R. Byers, S. Chae, C. Durach, M. Polyviou. Hidden changes in suppliers' product design: The role of social norms in avoiding uncertainty. 2024.
  4. Wang Y. Sourcing Under Correlated Uncertainty: An integrated estimation and learning approach. 2024.

Published

  1. Wang Y., M. Li, N. MaPhD Student., H. Zhang. Product Service Outsourcing: Impact of Environment Uncertainty and Partial Observability. 2024. M&SOM (Accepted).
  2. Byers R., C. Carter, Y. Wang. Student engagement in synchronous online learning: Effectiveness of camera and chat/vote engagement methods. 2024. DSJIE (In press).Research on higher education.
  3. Ketzenberg M., R. Oliva, Y. Wang, S. Webster. Retailer Inventory Data Sharing in a Fresh Product Supply Chain. 2023. EJOR 307(2):680-693.
  4. Wang Y., R. Yin, X. ChenPhD Student. Now Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska Lincoln., S. Webster. Investment Efforts Under Complementary Sourcing: The Role of Market Risk and Endogenous Pricing. 2022. M&SOM 24(5):2595-2610.
  5. Wang Y., S. Webster. Product Flexibility Strategy Under Supply and Demand Risk. 2022. M&SOM 24(3):1779-1795.
  6. Lu T., Y. Chen, B. Tomlin, Y. Wang. Selling Co-products through a Distributor: The Impact on Product Line Design. 2019. POM 28(4):1010-1032.
  7. Cheon S., C.Y. Lee, Y. Wang. Processing Time Ambiguity and Port Competitiveness. 2017. POM 26(12):2187-2206.
  8. Chen Y., B. Tomlin, Y. Wang. Dual Co-product Technologies: Implications for Process Development and Adoption. 2017. MSOM 19(4):509-712.
  9. Wang Y., Y. Xiao, N. Yang. Improving Reliability of a Shared Supplier with Competition and Spillovers. 2014. EJOR 236(2):499-510.
  10. Chen Y., B. Tomlin, Y. Wang. Co-product Technologies: Product Line Design and Process Innovation. 2013. MS 59(12):2772-2789.
  11. Y. Wang. Specification vagueness and supply quality risk. 2013. NRL 60(3):222-236.
  12. Li H., Y. Wang, R. Yin, T. Kull,T. Choi. Target pricing: Demand-side versus supply-side approaches. 2012. IJPE 136(1):172-184.
  13. Wang Y. Capacity investment under responsive pricing: Implications of market entry choice. 2012. DSJ 43(1):107-140.
  14. Wang Y., W. Gilland, B. Tomlin. Regulatory trade risk and supply chain strategy. 2011. POM 20(4):522-540.First Prize, POMS Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award, 2012.
  15. Wang Y., W. Gilland, B. Tomlin. Mitigating supply risk: Dual sourcing or process improvement?. 2009. MSOM 13(4):439-451.Finalist, MSOM Best Paper Award, 2013. M&SOM Research Papers from 1999 to 2017 with 25 or More Citations per Year (Cachon et al 2020).
  16. Wang Y., B. Tomlin. To Wait or not to wait: Optimal ordering under lead time uncertainty and forecast updating. 2009. NRL 56(8):766-779.
  17. Tomlin B., Wang Y. Pricing and operational recourse in coproduction systems. 2008. MS 54(3):522-537.
  18. Tomlin B., Wang Y. On the value of mix flexibility and dual sourcing in unreliable newsvendor networks. 2005. MSOM 7(1):37-57.

Book Chapters

  1. Tomlin B., Wang Y. Operational strategies for managing supply chain disruption risk, in Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains. , Kouvelis P., Boyabatli O., Dong L., Li R. (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons, 2012
  2. Li M., Y. Wang. Inventory management - The double-edged sword in supply chain management, in Series on Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Business Administration (in Chinese), Zhu X. and Wu S. (Eds.), China Renmin University Press Co., 2011

Selected Teaching

  1. SCM518: Analytical Decision Making (Master of Science in Business Analytics)Dean’s List for Teaching Impact, 2020-2021. W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. A selected sample of class problems can be found in google colab.
  2. SCM502: Evening MBA Core Operations and Supply ManagementNominated for the MBA and Masters Teaching Award, W.P. Carey School of Business, ASU, 2009.
  3. SCM791: Operations Management, PhD SeminarA selected set of papers discussed in the seminar is contained in ASU OM Review. Vol 1. Vol 2.

Selected Service

  1. M&SOM SIG Co-Chair 2023, Chair 2024
  2. Meritorious Service Award, M&SOM, 2012, 2023
  3. INFORMS Service Science Section Best DEIJ Paper Award Committee 2023
  4. INFORMS Organizing Committee 2023
  5. POMS Annual Conference Track Co-Chair 2022, 2023
  6. M&SOM Guest AE 2016
  7. Outstanding Reviewer Award DSJ 2014
  8. Meritorious Service Award MS 2010

Miscellaneous