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Professor Chen’s main research area is supply chain management. He has published extensively in many of the field’s top academic journals such as “Management Science” and “Operations Research.” His research has addressed issues in production/distribution planning, procurement auctions, supplier management, supply chain coordination, supply chain information sharing, incentive contracts, salesforce incentives, etc.

Professor Chen received the prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (USA), 1997. In 2004, he received the Overseas Chinese Young Investigator Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2005, he was appointed the Distinguished Visiting Professor by the Chinese Academy of Science. In 2006, he was named the Chang Jiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education, China.

Professor Chen held, and continues to hold, numerous leadership positions in his profession: Area Editor for Operations Research (responsible for the Manufacturing, Service, and Supply Chain Operations area), Departmental Editor for Management Science (Supply Chain Management Department), Senior Editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Editorial Board Member of Marketing Science. In 2006, he served as the President of the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society in the United States (MSOM). In 2007, he founded the Overseas Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering. He is the current President of OCSAMSE.

• Spring 2013
  Operations Strategy (MBA)
  Seminar in Managerial Negotiations (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2012
  Operations Strategy (MBA)
  Seminar in Managerial Negotiations (EMBA)
  
• Fall 2012
  Operations Management (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2011
  Operations Strategy (MBA)
  Seminar in Managerial Negotiations (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2010
  Operations Strategy (MBA)
  Seminar in Managerial Negotiations (EMBA)
  Seminar in Managerial Negotiations (EMBA)
  
• Fall 2010
  Operations Management (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2009
  Seminar in Managerial Negotiations (EMBA)
  
• Fall 2009
  Operations Management (EMBA)
  

Information sharing and supply chain coordination In Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science: Supply Chain Management: Design, Coordination and Operation (2003)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Resolving paradoxical centipedes behavioristically or by unilateral pre-donations In Game Theory and Economic Applications (1992)
Author(s): Murat Sertel, Fangruo Chen

Auctioning Supply Contracts In Management Science (2007)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Coordinating supply chains with simple pricing schemes: The role of vendor-managed inventories In Management Science (2006)
Author(s): Fernando Bernstein, Fangruo Chen, Awi Federgruen

Salesforce incentives, market information, and production/inventory planning In Management Science (2005)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Quantifying the value of leadtime information in a single-location inventory system In Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2005)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Bin Yu

Order volatility and supply chain costs In Operations Research (2004)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Rungson Samroengraja

Coordination mechanisms for a distribution system with one supplier and multiple retailers In Management Science (2001)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Awi Federgruen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

Market Segmentation, Advanced Demand Information and Supply Chain Performance In Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (2001)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Near-optimal pricing and replenishment strategies for a retail/distribution system In Operations Research (2001)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Awi Federgruen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

Optimal policies for multiechelon inventory problems with Markov-modulated demand In Operations Research (2001)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Jing-Sheng Song

Effectiveness of (R,Q) policies in one-warehouse multiretailer systems with deterministic demand and backlogging In Naval Research Logistics (2000)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

The stationary beer game In Production and Operations Management (2000)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Rungson Samroengraja

A staggered ordering policy for one-warehouse, multiretailer systems In Operations Research (2000)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Rungson Samroengraja

Optimal policies for multi-echelon inventory problems with batch ordering In Operations Research (2000)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Sales-force incentives and inventory management In Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2000)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

94%-Effective policies for a two-stage serial inventory system with stochastic demand In Management Science (1999)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Worst-case analysis of (R,Q) policies in a two-stage serial inventory system with deterministic demand and backlogging In Operations Research Letters (1999)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Decentralized supply chains subject to information delays In Management Science (1999)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Echelon reorder points, installation reorder points, and the value of centralized demand information In Management Science (1998)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Near-optimal echelon-stock (R, nQ) policies in multistage serial systems In Operations Research (1998)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

Stationary policies in multiechelon inventory systems with deterministic demand and backlogging In Operations Research (1998)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen

Sensitivity analysis of an (s,S) inventory model In Operations Research Letters (1997)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

One-warehouse multiretailer systems with centralized stock information In Operations Research (1997)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

Lower bounds for multi-echelon stochastic inventory systems In Management Science (1994)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

Evaluating echelon stock (R,nQ) policies in serial production/inventory systems with stochastic demand In Management Science (1994)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

Inventory models with general backorder costs In European Journal of Operations Research (1993)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

Waiting time distribution in (T,S) inventory systems In Operations Research Letters (1992)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Yu-Sheng Zheng

Inventory policies with quantized ordering In Naval Research Logistics (1992)
Author(s): Yu-Sheng Zheng, Fangruo Chen

Warranty Cost Sharing in Supply Chains Working Paper (2012)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Lijian Lu, Hanqin Zhang

Capacity allocation and downstream competition in a supply chain Working paper (2011)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Jianbin Li, Hanqin Zhang

Competition in closed-loop supply chains in the Chinese remanufacturing industry Working paper (2010)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Yao Chen

Mean-variance analysis of stochastic inventory models Working paper (2010)
Author(s): Awi Federgruen, Fangruo Chen

Product tracing and quality management Working paper (2009)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Lijian Lu, Hanqin Zhang

Are target-based rebates good for the manufacturer? Working paper (2008)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Wenqiang Xiao

Capacity allocation in a supply chain with a dominant retailer Working paper (2008)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Jianbin Li, Hanqin Zhang

On Compensation Schemes for Sales Agents with Superior Market Information Working paper (2008)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Wenqiang Xiao

Provision of Incentives for Information Acquisition: A Comparison between Forecast-based Contracts and Menus of Linear Contracts Working paper (2008)
Author(s): Fangruo Chen, Wenqiang Xiao