Research Areas:
Supply Chain Management, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Value Chain Innovations

Prof. Hau L. Lee obtained his PhD in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. He has then taught at Stanford University and is currently the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information & Technology, Emeritus. He is also the faculty advisor for the Stanford Institute for Innovations in Developing Economies, and is a co-director of the Stanford Value Chain Innovation Initiative. He was awarded a Doctor of Engineering honoris causa from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2006.

Prof. Lee is a towering academic in supply chain management and global logistics systems design. His research focuses on value chain innovations to develop new business models and networks for value creation through effective management of the value chain. His works spans both global enterprises in developed and emerging countries, as well as entrepreneurs in developing economies. He has served on the editorial boards of many international journals including Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and the Journal of Production and Operations Management, to name a few. From 1997-2003, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science. 

Prof. Lee was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010. He received the Harold Larnder Prize for International Distinction in Operational Research from the Canadian Operational Research Society in 2003. He was also elected a Fellow of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, INFORMS (2001), of Production and Operations Management Society (2005); and of INFORMS (2005). He was the President of the Production and Operations Management Society in 2006. In 2014, his co-authored paper in 2013, “The Impact of Logistics Performance on Trade” received the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award from the Production and Operations Management Society.