Li Chen

Biography

Li Chen is the Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management and professor of operations, technology, and information management in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He currently serves as the Area Chair for Operations, Technology and Information Management at SC Johnson.

Chen's research interests include supply chain management, operations strategy, and data-driven analytics. He has published research works in top-tier journals in the operations management field such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management, where he also serves as a department editor. He is a coauthor of a freely available text analytics R package named STS. Prior to his academic appointments, Chen was a cofounder and lead scientist at TrueDemand Software. He earned his PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University.

Selected Publications

• Chen, Li; Mankad, Shawn. "A structural topic and sentiment-discourse model for text analysis"Management Science. (forthcoming).
• Yan, Xiaoyue; Chen, Li; Ding, Xiaobo. "Optimal Cash Management with Payables Finance"Operations Research. 72.5 (2024): 1751-2261
• Chen, Li; Davis, Andrew M.; Kim, Dayoung. "Predicting mean and variance in inventory order decisions"Decision Sciences. 55.4 (2024): 346-362
• Chen, Li; Lee, Hau; Tang, Christopher. "Supply chain fairness"Production and Operations Management. 31.12 (2022): 4304-4318
• Bae, Junhyun; Chen, Li; Yao, Shiqing. "Service Capacity and Price Promotion Wars"Management Science. 68.12 (2022): 8757-8772
• Chen, Li; Papanastasiou, Yiangos. "Seeding the herd: Pricing and welfare effects of social learning manipulation"Management Science. 67.11 (2021): 6734-6750
• Chen, Li; Kim, Sang-Hyun; Lee, Hau. "Vehicle Maintenance Contracting in Developing Economies: The Role of Social Enterprise"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 23.6 (2021): 1651-1668
• Chen, Li; Cui, Yao; Lee, Hau. "Retailing with 3D Printing"Production and Operations Management. 30.7 (2021): 1986-2007
• Chen, Li. "Fixing Phantom Stockouts: Optimal Data-Driven Shelf Inspection Policies"Production and Operations Management. 30.3 (2021): 689-702
• Chen, Li; Yao, Shiqing; Zhu, Kaijie. "Responsible Sourcing under Supplier-Auditor Collusion"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 22.6 (2020): 1234-1250

Awards and Honors

• Best Teaching Award (2023) Cornell-Tsinghua Finance MBA Program
• Faculty Research Award (2022) Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
• Best Teaching Award (2022) Cornell-Tsinghua Finance MBA Program

Recent Courses

• NCCT 5080 - Managing Operations
• NRE 5390 - PhD Seminar: Foundations of Operations Management I: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Theory
• NBA 6500 - Strategic Operations Immersion Practicum
• NBA 6420 - Supply Chain Analytics
• BANA 6420 - Supply Chain Analytics
• NBA 6410 - Supply Chain Strategy

Academic Degrees

• PhD Stanford University, 2005