Hongmin Li

Hongmin Li is a Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She joined ASU in 2007. She holds a PhD in operations management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Li conducts research on supply chain decisions in technology and pharmaceutical industries, focusing on operations decisions including demand forecasting, revenue management and pricing, capacity planning, and production and inventory control. She also studies incentive mechanisms and power structures in the supply chain. Her research considers the life cycle characteristics of technology and pharmaceutical products and addresses operational challenges unique to each supply chain.  Her recent work studies firms’ product line design and pricing decisions, considering customer choices in product or service selection.  Her current work in the pharmaceutical industry examines transaction schemes among parties such as manufacturers, retailers, insurers, pharmaceutical benefit managers, online discount platforms, client organizations, and patients.

Professor Li is the recipient of the 2022 W. P. Carey Dean’s Mid-Career Research Award. Her collaborative work with Intel won First Prize in the 2017 MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition, one of the most prestigious practice-based research awards in operations management.  She has been the Principal Investigator or co-PI on four research grants from the semiconductor industry and worked extensively on applied research. She served on the Academic Committee of the 2021 and 2023 MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition, and the Committee of the 2023 POMS Excellence in Industry Engagement Award.  She served and chaired, respectively, the committee for the 2022 and 2023 INFORMS Prize for Teaching OR/MS Practice.  In addition, she served on the Organizing Committee for INFORMS 2012 Annual Conference and was the Program Co-Chair for POMS 2021 Annual Conference. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Manufacturing and Operations Management (M&SOM) and had previously served as a Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management (POM).