Wei Wei
Wei is an assistant professor of Decision Sciences at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. Her research focuses on sustainable operations management, with a particular focus on social sustainability. She studies how organizations can improve their operational decisions while accounting for social and environmental considerations. Wei's work is practice-driven and informed by close interactions with practitioners across a wide range of organizational settings, from not-for-profit to mission-driven for-profit organizations.
Wei has published in journals including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Decision Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Courses Taught
- ADMN 580: Quantitative Decision Making
- ADMN 875: Prescriptive Analytics
Education
- Ph.D., Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- M.S., Applied Statistics and Decision Making, Fordham University
- B.S., Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology
Research Interests
- Sustainable Operations
- Socially Responsible Operations
- Nonprofit Operations
- Public policy
Selected Publications
Wei, W., & Hu, Z. (2026). From store to surplus food platform: Implications of competition in quantity?based sales. Decision Sciences. doi:10.1111/deci.70038
Wei, W., Arora, P., & Solak, S. (2024). Allocation of Funds in Bilevel Subsidy Welfare Programs. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(4), 1435-1453. doi:10.1287/msom.2022.0474
Arora, P., Wei, W., & Solak, S. (2021). Improving Outcomes in Child Care Subsidy Voucher Programs under Regional Asymmetries. Production and Operations Management, 30(12), 4435-4454. doi:10.1111/poms.13506
