Christopher S. Tang

Christopher Tang
Born Hong Kong
Nationality United States
Institution University of California, Los Angeles
Field Operations Management, Supply Chain Management
Alma mater King's College, London;
Yale University
Contributions Supply chain management, Retail Operations, Social Innovations, Social Responsibility
Awards INFORMS Lifetime Fellow (2011); POMS Lifetime Fellow (2011); UCLA (university-wide) Distinguished Teaching Award (2012); MSOM Lifetime Fellow (2015)

Background

Christopher Tang is a University Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration at the UCLA Anderson School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He received his B.Sc. (First class honours) in Mathematics from King's College London in 1981, M.A. in Statistics in 1983, M.Phil in Administrative Science in 1983, and Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1985 from Yale University.

Academic Work Experience

After working at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York (1983-1985), Tang has been a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management since 1985. Between 1998-2002, he was the Senior Associate Dean and Chairman of the faculty at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

From 2000 to 2002, he served as Senior Adviser to President Shih Choon Fong of the National University of Singapore. Also, from 2002 to 2004, he served as the Dean of NUS Business School and as Cycle and Carriage Chaired Professor of Business Administration at the National University of Singapore.

In 2003, he founded the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program that was ranked #4 in the world by Financial Times in 2014[2] and was ranked #4 in the world by Economist (magazine) in 2015.[3]

Academic Community Service

In 2014, Tang served as President of Production and Operations Management Society.[4] He also served on the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) panel for the Hong Kong University Grant Committee (HKUGC) in (2006) and (2014) as well as other panels at various universities including City University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dalian University of Technology, Nottingham University (China campus), and Strathclyde University.

In 2012, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Faculty Executive Committee of the Business School of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (term: 2012-2018). In 2015, he was appointed as the Chair of International Advisory Committee of the School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China (term: 2015-2020).

Since 1991, Tang has served as Guest Editors, Departmental Editors, Senior Editors, or Associate Editors for 17 journals including top academic journals such as: Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, and Journal of Operations Management. Also, he was the founding chair of George Dantzig Prize (INFORMS) in 1993.

Tang was appointed as the founding editor of Springer Series in Supply Chain Management since 2014. In 2015, he was elected as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management: one of the 50 research journals on the Financial Times list beginning in 2017.[5]

Professional Work Experience

Tang served as an independent consultant for various companies including IBM (Poughkeepsie and Yorktown Heights (New York), San Jose (California), Vimercarte (Italy), Hewlett Packard (Palo Alto and Roseville (California), Boise (Idaho), Seoul (Korea), Singapore), Accenture, Amgen, GKN (United Kingdom), US Federal Reserve Bank, and Nestle (USA). Besides serving as expert witness for various legal cases that involved supply chain issues, he also served as an executive board member for Non-Stop Solutions (a start-up firm in San Francisco that offers supply chain solutions to supermarkets—acquired by Manhattan Associates) from 1998 to 2002, and for Asian Pacific Healthcare Venture (a non-profit healthcare group focusing on serving Asians in Southern California) from 2012 to 2014.

In 2014, he established the POMS Practice Leaders Forum: an annual event that facilitates dialogues between Operations Management practitioners and researchers. Since 2015, he serves on the judge panel for the SCM world: Power of the Profession Award.

Research Recognition

Tang has published significant work in 6 academic books, over 130 academic journal articles, and several articles in various newspapers (Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian), UCLA Global Supply Chain Blogs (in English, Chinese and Spanish), and participated various interviews on radio, webcast, and television.[6] His research interests include global supply chain management, retail operations, social innovations, and social responsibility.[7]

He has delivered over 300 lectures and over 10 keynote speeches on global supply chain management and social innovations at different universities, national and international conferences, and companies.[8] Being recognized as a leading researcher in Operations Management (Tang is ranked as one of the Top 20 most productive researchers over 50 years (1959-2008)[9] and ranked as one of the stellar operations management researchers, 2009.[10])

Tang was the first recipient of the Manufacturing Research Fellowship at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1982. From 1996 to 2002, he was appointed as the UCLA James Peters Research Fellow. He was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow of the Global Supply Chain Forum at Stanford University from 1997 to 1999. In 2014, he and his co-author (Dimitris Andritsos) received the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare, organized by the National University of Singapore (Centre for Health Informatics). In 2016, he and his coauthors (Pengfei Guo, Yulan Wang, and Ming Zhou) received the honorable mention for the Best Paper Competition at the 9th National Conference of the Chinese Scholar Association for Management Science and Engineering, organized by the School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China.

He was elected as a lifetime fellow of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS in 2011,[11] a lifetime fellow of Production and Operations Management Society POMS in 2011.,[12] and a life time fellow of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society[13] MSOM in 2015[14]

Teaching Recognition

At the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Tang teaches Global Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, and Global Operations Strategy to MBA and Executive MBA students. Also, he has conducted over 20 supply chain training workshops in North America, Brazil, Australia, France, Spain, Germany, Japan and United Kingdom for Accenture from 1995 to 2000. Besides advising doctoral students at the UCLA Anderson School, he also served on doctoral dissertation committees at the Booth School of Business (University of Chicago), Stern School of Business (New York University), and the Faculty of Business Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Besides UCLA, he has taught various MBA/PhD level courses as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Polytechnic University (as a distinguished visiting professor); Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; London Business School; MIT Zaragoza Logistics Center; National University of Singapore (as the Run Run Shaw visiting professor); Stanford University; and University of California, Berkeley.

Tang has won numerous teaching awards including the CitiBank Best teaching Award in 1996; Neidorf Best Instructor of the decade in 1999; Teaching Excellence Award for the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program in 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, and 2016.[15] In 2012, he received the UCLA (university-wide) Distinguished Teaching Award.

Service Recognition

Tang received the J. Clayton LaForce Faculty Excellent Service Award in 2013, and the Dean's Excellent Service Award in 2014 at the UCLA Anderson School.

Books

Notable Research Publications

Notable General Publications

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