
Oliver Yao's research interests are in the inter-disciplinary fields of information systems and supply chain management, including business value of IT-enabled supply chains, economics of electronic commerce, and VMI, CPFR and CRM. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Marketing Science, Operations Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, etc. He received the E. Grovesnor Plowman Award from CSCMP in 2007, a prestigious award in the SCM field, and the 2009 and 2015 Carl R. and Ingeborg Beidleman Research Award which highlights quality research and refereed scholarship in business and applied economic disciplines at Lehigh. He received the MBA Excellence in Teaching Award at Lehigh University in 2015. He also received the Allen N. Nash Distinguished Doctoral Graduate Award from University of Maryland in 2017. He is an Associate Editor at Information Systems Research and a Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management.