Hi, I'm Xing Hu.

Publications († First author; * Corresponding author; ^$ student or research-assistant)

1. Xing Hu^†*, Zhixi Wan, Qichuan Yin^$. 2026. Token Design for Favor Trading with Dynamic Membership. Forthcoming in Management Science

2. Junming Hu^$, Xing Hu*, Alex Yang, and Yi Yang*, 2026. Tokenizing Loyalty Programs: The Role of Tradability. Forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

3. Xing Hu^†*, Zhixi Wan, Qin Zhou, 2026. The Profitability Puzzle of On-Demand Carpooling: Pricing, Consumer Beliefs and Route Compatibility. Forthcoming in Management Science (Funded by GRF project number 17504021, as PI)

4. Min Xu^$, Wei Chi, Xing Hu, and Qing Ye. 2024. Set a Goal for Yourself? A Model and Field Experiment with Gig Workers. Production & Operations Management, 33(1), 205-224

5. Xing Hu^†* and René Caldentey, 2023, Trust and Reciprocity in Firms’ Capacity Sharing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25(4), 1436-1450

6. Xing Hu^†, Zhixi Wan, and Nagesh Murthy, 2019, Dynamic Pricing of Limited Inventories with Product Returns. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 21(3), 501-518

7. Shanshan Hu, Xing Hu, and Qing Ye, 2017, Optimal Rebate Strategies under Dynamic Pricing. Operations Research, 65(6), pp. 1546-1561

8. Xing Hu^†, René Caldentey, and Gustavo Vulcano, 2013, Revenue Sharing in Airline Alliances, Management Science, 59: 1177-1195

External Peer-Reviewed Competitive Research Grants

• PI: General Research Fund from Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HK$ 655,993
  “An Analytical Framework for On-Demand Carpooling: Pricing, Matching, and Capacity Allocation” (Project Number 17504021, December 2021 to December 2024)

• Sole PI: General Research Fund from Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HK$ 302,000
  “Managing Favor-Trading Systems with Participant Entry and Exit” (Project Number 17506325, 24 months, from 2025)

Editorship and Editorial Board Membership

• Associate Editor for Naval Research Logistics, May 2024-present

• Associate Editor for Decision Sciences, Feb. 2025-present

Books

• 《低空经济蓝皮书》（16-19章，商业模式）, 科学出版社

Blue Book on the Low-Altitude Economy (Chapters 16–19: Business Models), Science Press

• Business with a Purpose (with Jitong Yao), National Institute for Social Innovation and Philanthropy

Books in Progress

• 《重构公司：AI 时代竞争战略课》，机械工业出版社

Reconstructing the Firm: How AI Reshapes Competitive Strategy, China Machine Press

• 《AI 时代的教育重构》

Reconstructing Education in the AI Era

Honors and Awards

1. Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Postgraduate Teaching), HKU Business School, 2024-2025

2. Lundquist College of Business Research Award, University of Oregon, 2015

3. Kayeyama Research Fund, University of Oregon, 2014

4. Bronze Medal (Second Place), AGIFORS Anna Valicek Award Competition, 2011 (international research award in airline industry)

5. Stern Fellowship for excellent research, New York University, 2010

Teaching Evaluation

At HKU, I have taught MSBA 7003 Quantitative Analysis Methods (TPG, MSc(BA); 2021-2025), IIMT 6015 Research Methodologies in Operations Management (RPG; 2020-2026), and IIMT 3636 Decision and Risk Analysis (UG; 2021). The table reports evaluations since 2022 and key innovations.

Teaching Award

Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award (Postgraduate Teaching), 2024-25, HKU Business School

Research Postgraduate Supervision

Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong

• Supervised Ph.D. students: Haokun Zhang, Yifu Ai, Jitong Yao

• Co-supervised Ph.D. student: Lulu Chen

Applied Learning

Supervised MSc(BA) capstone projects with Lalamove (2021), Coca-Cola (2022), DCH (2023, 2024, 2025), and Octopus (2025, 2026).

Conference Organization

Local Organizer, The 22nd Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2026), University of Hong Kong, 2026

Industry Standards and Policy Impact

• Supply Chain Resilience Evaluation Standard 《供应链韧性评价行业标准》

Industry standard establishing a comprehensive framework for evaluating supply chain resilience across resilience, adaptation, recovery, and governance dimensions.

Major Contributor and Drafting Committee Member, China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing (CFLP), 2026.

Media

• Financial Times Chinese, 破解拼车盈利难题： 绿色出行背后的网络效应与策略选择

(Cracking the Carpooling Profitability Puzzle: Network Effects and Strategic Choices Behind Green Mobility)

Business Cases

• Amazon.com Last-mile Delivery Service. Teaching Case Development with Asia Case Research Center. Co-supervisors: Zhixi Wan and Angela Yin (2021)

• Treacherous Water: Steering HKTVMALL’s Supply Chain Strategy. Teaching Case Development with Asia Case Research Center. Co-supervisors: Zhixi Wan and Angela Yin (2022)

University Services

• HKU Faculty Review Committee on Student Performance and Discontinuation, (2026-present)

• Associate Director of the Asia Case Research Centre, (2026-present)

• IIM area Ph.D. Admission Committee, (2024-present)

• MSc(BA) Staff-Student Consultative Committee, (2023-present)

• MSc(BA) Admission Committee, (2021-present)

• IIM area Research Seminar Organizer, (2021-present)

Professional Services

• Judge for the 2026 POMS China Best Student Paper Competition

• Session Chair, POMS-HK International Conference, January (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)

• POMS-HK best student paper competition judge (2023)

• Session Chair, The 13^th International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (2021)

• Session Chair, Production and Operations Management Society Conference (2016)

• Session Chair, Canadian Operational Research Conference (2013)

• Thesis Examination Committee: MPhil and PhD candidates at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Referee for Premier Field Journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Mathematics of Operations Research, Strategic Management Journal, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research