Biography
Professor Weiming Zhu is an Associate Professor of Innovation and Information Management at HKU Business School. Weiming obtained his bachelor’s degree in Physics from HKUST and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, Weiming was an Associate Professor in IESE’s Department of Production, Technology and Operations Management. He has also been a visiting professor in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT and in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Professor Weiming’s research interests include operations in the platform economy, urban mobility, and supply chain finance. His work has been published in Management Science, M&SOM and the Journal of International Economics, and has been recognized in best‐paper award competitions such as M&SOM, POMS, Service Science and CSAMSE.
In addition, Professor Weiming teaches Operations Strategy and Data Analytics for Managers at both MBA and Executive levels. He was named one of Poets & Quants’ 2025 Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors and received the Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Postgraduate Teaching) in 2024 at HKU.
Academic & Professional Qualification
Ph.D, Operations Management, R.H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
B.Sc., Physics, HKUST
Research Interest
Empirical Operations Management
Economics of Operations Management
The Sharing Economy
Operations – Finance Interface
Selected Publications
An Empirical Analysis of Market Formation, Pricing, and Revenue Sharing in Ride-Hailing Services (with Liu Ming, Tunay I. Tunca and Yi Xu). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming, 2025
Choice Overload and the Long Tail: Consideration Sets and Purchases in Online Platforms (with Diego Aparicio and Drazen Prelec). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(2), 496-515, 2025. doi:10.1287/msom.2021.0318.
Estimating and Exploiting the Impact of Photo Layout: A Structural Approach (with Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi and Michelle Wu). Management Science, 69(9), 4973-5693, 2023.
Buyer Intermediation in Supplier Finance (with Tunay I. Tunca). Management Science, 64 (12), 5461 – 5959. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2017.2863.
The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and Welfare Gains from e-Commerce (with Jingting Fan, Lixin Tang and Ben Zou). Journal of International Economics, 114, 203 – 220. doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.07.002.
The Incentive Game under Target Effects in Ridesharing: A Structural Econometric Analysis (with Xirong Chen, Zheng Li and Liu Ming). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24 (2), 972-992. doi:10.1287/msom.2021.1002.
Improving Channel Efficiency through Financial Guarantees by Large Supply Chain Participants (with Tunay I. Tunca), 2017. Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management 10, no. 3-4 (2017), pp.289-304.
Awards and Honours
Poets & Quants 2025 Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors
Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Postgraduate Teaching), 2024
Second Prize, INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Award Competition, 2021
Winner, MSOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award, 2019
Honorable Mention, Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), Best Paper Award, July 2017
Finalist, MSOM Student Paper Competition, November 2016
First Prize, POMS Supply Chain Student Paper Competition, May 2016
Honorable Mention, Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), Best Paper Award, July 2015
Alibaba Running Water Project funding, The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and Welfare Gains from e-Commerce, April 2015
