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Hau
L Lee

Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and
Technology
Spence Faculty Fellow for 2010-2011
Director of the
Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum
Director of the
Strategies and Leadership in Supply Chains Executive
Program

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Operations,
Information and Technology

Hau Lee’s research focuses on supply chain management, work that
addresses how to get products or services to their destination by managing
the flow of materials, information, and money. His research has resulted,
among other things, in the building of computer models for industrial
implementation, as well as in the development of strategies and
operational concepts for practitioners.

Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of
Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business. His areas of specialization include supply chain management,
information technology, global logistics system design, inventory
planning, and manufacturing strategy. He is the founding and current
Codirector of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, an
industry-academic consortium to advance the theory and practice of global
supply chain management.

Professor Lee has published widely in
journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard
Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review,
IIE Transactions, and Interfaces, etc. He has served on the
editorial boards of many international journals, such as Operations
Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, IIE
Transactions, Supply Chain Management Review, Sloan Management Review,
and the Journal of Production and Operations Management. From
1997-2003, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Management
Science.

Professor Lee received the Harold Lardner Prize for
International Distinction in Operations Research, Canadian Operations
Research Society, 2003. He was elected a Fellow of Manufacturing and
Service Operations Management, INFORMS, 2001; Production and Operations
Management Society, 2005; and INFORMS, 2005. In 2005, he was
President-Elect of the Production and Operations Management Society. His
article, “The Triple-A Supply Chain,” was the Second Place Winner of the
McKinsey Award for the Best Paper in 2004 in the Harvard Business
Review. In 2004, his coauthored paper in 1997, “Information Distortion
in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect,” was voted as one of the 10 most
influential papers in the history of Management
Science.

Professor Lee has consulted extensively in the public
and private sectors. He is a cofounder of several supply chain and price
optimization software companies: NON-STOP Solutions, DemandTec,
SignalDemand, and TrueDemand. He is on the board and advisory board of
several logistics services and supply chain software companies. He has
also given executive training workshops on supply chain management and
global logistics in Asia, Europe, and America.

Professor Lee
obtained his BSocSc degree in Economics and Statistics from the University
of Hong Kong in 1974, his MSc degree in Operational Research from the
London School of Economics in 1975, and his MS and PhD degrees in
Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1983.

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