Hau L. Lee

Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Education:
Ph.D., and M.S., operations research, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; M.Sc., operational research, London School of Economics

Summary of Experience:

Professor Lee is the founding and current Director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, an industry-academic consortium to advance the theory and practice of global supply chain management. His areas of specialization include supply chain management, e-business, global logistics system design, inventory planning, and manufacturing strategy. He has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, IIE Transactions, Interfaces, European Journal of Operational Research, Marketing Science, Journal of Applied Probability, and Naval Research Logistics. 

Professor Lee was the recipient of the Harold Lardner Prize for International Distinction in Operations Research, Canadian Operations Research Society, 2003. He has consulted extensively for companies such as KLA-Tencor Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Bay Networks, Savi Technology, Nortel Networks, SUN Microsystems, Apple Computer, IBM, Lucent Technologies, General Motors, Xilinx Corp., Accenture, Eli Lilly and Company, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Raychem Corp., McKesson Corp., and Motorola. In addition, he is on the board and advisory board of several logistics and supply chain software companies.  Professor Lee has also given executive training workshops on supply chain management and global logistics in Asia, Europe, and America.