Dr. Meng Li

Dr. Meng Li

Director of Bauer Human-Centered AI Institute

Selected Business Publications

  1. Wei Gu, Meng Li, Shichen Zhang, Algorithmic supervisor and employee performance, Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
  2. Zhi Cao, Meng Li, Paul A. Pavlou, AI in business research, Decision Sciences Journal, forthcoming.
  3. Meng Li, Shichen Zhang, Fast delivery: B2B field experiments amid COVID-19 outbreak and new normal, Management Science, forthcoming.
  4. Meng Li, Newsvendors with customer referrals, Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
  5. Meng Li, Tao Li, Lili Yu, Retail platform analytics: Practice, literature, and future research, Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
  6. Yuxin Chen, Meng Li, Chao Liang, E-tailer’s inventory location and pricing with strategic consumers, Production and Operations Management, 2025, 34(1),30-44.
  7. Ting Hou, Meng Li, Ricky Tan, Huazhong Zhao, Physician adoption of AI assistant, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2024, 26(5), 1639–1655.
  8. Bora Keskin, Meng Li, Selling quality-differentiated products in a Markovian market with unknown transition probabilities, Operations Research, 2024, 72(3), 885–902.
  9. Meng Li, Yue Li, Yang Zhang, Supplier bottleneck and information dissemination, Journal of Operations Management, 2023, 69(4), 558-585.
  10. Meng Li, Demand uncertainty reduction among competing retailers, Production and Operations Management, 2023, 32(6), 1994-2001.
  11. Yang Gao, Meng Li, Shujing Sun, Field experiments in operations management, Journal of Operations Management, 2023, 69(4), 676-701.
  12. Lijun Bo, Meng Li, Tingting Zhang, Evaluation timing with dynamic information: Optimization and heuristic, Production and Operations Management, 2023, 32(12), 3931-3950.
  13. Baixun Li, Meng Li, Chao Liang, Cry-wolf syndrome in recommendation, Production and Operations Management, 2023, 32(2), 347-358 (lead paper).
  14. Meng Li, Yan Liu, Managerial regret and inventory pricing, Management Science, 2022, 68 (6), 4398-4414.
  15. Meng Li, Tao Li, AI automation and retailer regret in supply chains, Production and Operations Management, 2022, 31 (1), 83-97.
  16. Ruomeng Cui, Meng Li, Shichen Zhang, AI and procurement, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022, 24 (2), 691-706 (lead paper).
  17. Meng Li, Yunchuan Liu, Beneficial product returns in supply chains, Production and Operations Management, 2021, 30 (11), 3849–3855 (lead paper).
  18. Ruomeng Cui, Jingyun Li, Meng Li, Lili Yu, Wholesale price discrimination in global sourcing, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2021, 23 (5), 1005-1331.
  19. Jialu Li, Meng Li, Xuan Zhao, Transshipment between overconfident newsvendors, Production and Operations Management, 2021, 30 (9), 2803-2813 (lead paper).
  20. Ruomeng Cui, Meng Li, Qiang Li, Value of high-quality logistics: Evidence from a clash between SF Express and Alibaba, Management Science, 2020, 66 (9), 3879-3902.
  21. Xianjin Du, Meng Li, Brian Wu, Incumbent repositioning with decision biases, Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40(12), 1984-2010.
  22. Meng Li, Overconfident distribution channels, Production and Operations Management, 2019, 28(6), 1347-1365.
  23. Meng Li, Tao Li, Consumer search, transshipment, and bargaining power in a supply chain, International Journal of Production Research, 2018, 56(10): 3423-3438.
  24. Meng Li, Nicholas Petruzzi, Technical Note—Demand uncertainty reduction in decentralized supply chains, Production and Operations Management, 2017, 26(1), 156–161.
  25. Meng Li, Nicholas Petruzzi, Jun Zhang, Overconfident competing newsvendors, Management Science, 2017, 63(8), 2637–2646.
  26. Alain Bensoussan, Metin Çakanyildirim, Meng Li, Suresh P. Sethi, Managing inventory with cash register information: Sales recorded but not demands, Production and Operations Management, 2016, 25(1), 9–21 (lead paper).
  27. Meng Li, Suresh P. Sethi, Jun Zhang, Competing with bandit supply chains, Annals of Operations Research, 2016, 240(2), 617–640.
  28. Alain Bensoussan, Metin Çakanyildirim, Meng Li, Suresh P. Sethi, Inventory management with overlapping shrinkages and demands, Risk and Decision Analysis, 2014, 5(4), 189–210.
  29. Alain Bensoussan, Metin Çakanyildirim, Meng Li, Suresh P. Sethi, Optimal inventory control with shrinkage and observed sales, 2013, Stochastics, 85(4), 589–603.
  30. Meng Li, Jun Zhang, Does inventory pooling improve customer service levels? Operations Research Letters, 2012, 40(12), 96–98.

Other Publications

  1. Zhi Cao, Jingbo Zhou, Meng Li, Jizhou Huang, Dejing Dou, Urbanites’ mental health undermined by air pollution, Nature Sustainability, 2023, (6), 470–478.
  2. Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (forthcoming). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science. —Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration

Selected Working Paper

  1. Tele-Follow-Up and Outpatient Care (with Wei Gu and Shujing Sun),
    —Best paper for the POMS College of Operational Excellence Best Paper Competition, 2022 —Runners-up for the INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper, 2022

Book chapters

  1. Alain Bensoussan, Metin Çakanyildirim, Meng Li, Suresh P. Sethi, Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a partially observed stochastic control problem, Stochastic Processes, Finance and Control: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert J. Elliott, S. Cohen, D. Madan, T. K. Siu, and H. Yang (eds.), World Scientific, 2012, 393–413.
  2. Meng Li, Qiang Li, Yao Yao, Al in Operations Management: Literature Review and Future Research