Michael K. Lim is Professor of Operations Management at Seoul National University Business School. Before joining SNU in 2017, he served as a faculty member (Assistant/Associate Professor) in the Department of Business Administration at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Professor Lim’s research interests include supply chain/logistics management, sustainable operations management, and environmentally- and socially-responsible operations.

[EDUCATION]

• PhD, Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Northwestern University (2009)
• MS, Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Northwestern University (2006)
• BS, Industrial Systems Engineering, Yonsei University (2004)

• Seoul National University, SNU Business School (2017-present)
• - Professor of Operations Management (2021-), Associate Professor of Operations Management (2017-2021)
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (2009-2017)
• - Associate Professor (with tenure) (2016-2017), Assistant Professor (2009-2016)
• Analyst, Motorola, Libertyville, IL, USA (summer 2005)
• Analyst, Global Services, IBM, Seoul, Korea (2004)
• Sergeant (military service), Republic of Korea Air Force, Osan, Korea (1999-2001)

• Seoul National University Excellence in Teaching Award (2024)
• Hyunwoo Research Excellence Award (현우 학술상), Korea Production and Operations Management Society 한국생산관리학회 (2021)
• Y-KAST member 한국과학기술 한림원 차세대회원, Korean Academy of Science and Technology (2020-)
• Outstanding Teaching Award 경영대 우수강의상, College of Business, Seoul National University (2018, 2019, 2020)
• Winner, MSOM Best Paper Award (2018)
• Creative-Pioneering Researchers Program 창의선도 신진연구자, Seoul National University (2018)
• List of Excellent Teachers, University of Illinois (2010-2017)
• M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, INFORMS (2016)
• Finalist, UIUC College of Business Alumni Association Award, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2015)
• Winner, INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Young Researcher Prize, INFORMS (2014)
• SOLA-AIR Dissertation Award, Honorable mention, INFORMS (2009)
• Transportation Center Dissertation Fellowship, Northwestern University (2008-2009)
• Delta Nu Alpha Foundation Scholarship (2008)

[PUBLICATIONS] < Google Scholar Link >

• Corporate Governance and Related Party Transactions in Global Supply Chains (with Seungrae Lee, Seung Jae Park, Sridhar Seshadri). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, accepted.
• Informal Cross-Border Trade in Africa: Operations, Policy, and Opportunities (with Jimin Park, Karthik Murali). Management Science, forthcoming.
• Optimal Ratcheting in Executive Compensation (with Iny Hwang, Youngsoo Kim). Decision Analysis, 20(2), 2023.
• Got Organic Milk? Joint Inventory Model with Supply Uncertainties and Partial Substitution (with Donggyu Jeon, Zhenkang Peng, Ying Rong). Operations Research Letters, 48(5), 2021.
• Why Have Voluntary Time-of-Use Tariffs Fallen Short in the Residential Sector? (with DongGu Choi, Karthik Murali, Valerie Thomas). Production & Operations Management, 29(3), 2020.
• Money Well Spent? Operations, Mainstreaming, and Fairness of Fair Trade (with Ho-Yin Mak and Seung Jae Park). Production & Operations Management, 28(12), 2019.
• Promoting Clean Technology Adoption: To Subsidize Products or Service Infrastructure? (with Guangrui Ma, Ho-Yin Mak and Zhixi Wan). Service Science, 11(2), 2019.
• The Effects of Ecolabels and Environmental Regulation on Green Product Development (with Karthik Murali and Nick Petruzzi). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 21(3), 2019.
• Beyond the Speed-Price Tradeoff (with Jason Acimovic and Ho-Yin Mak). MIT Sloan Management Review, 59(4), 2018.
• Food-Energy-Environment Trilemma: Policy Impacts on Farmland Use and Biofuel Industry Development (with Xin Wang and Yanfeng Ouyang). Energy Economics, 67(9), 2017.
• Agility and Proximity Considerations in Supply Chain (with Ho-Yin Mak and Zuo-Jun Max Shen), Management Science, 63(4), 2017.
• A Continuum Approximation Approach to the Dynamic Facility Location Problem in a Growing Market (with Xin Wang and Yanfeng Ouyang). Transportation Science, 51(1), 2017.
• Biofuel Supply Chain Network Design and Operations (with Yanfeng Ouyang). Invited book chapter, Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains, Edited by Atalay Atasu, Springer, 2016.
• Municipal Groundwater Management: Optimal Allocation and Control of a Renewable Natural Resource (with Karthik Murali and Nick Petruzzi). Production & Operations Management, 24(9), 2015.
• R&D Outsourcing in an Innovation-driven Supply Chain (with Kyoung-Kuk Kim). Operations Research Letters, 43(1), 2015.
• Toward Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles: Impacts of the Range and Resale Anxieties (with Ho-Yin Mak and Ying Rong). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 17(1), 2015. (Link to MSOM Blog)
• Infrastructure Deployment under Uncertainties and Competition: The Biofuel Industry Case (with Xin Wang and Yanfeng Ouyang). Transportation Research Part B, 78, 2015.
• Alternative Fuel Station Location Model with Demand Learning (with S. Bhatti and Ho-Yin Mak). Annals of Operations Research, 230(1), 2015.
• Facility Location Decisions with Random Disruptions and Imperfect Estimation (with Achal Bassamboo, Sunil Chopra, and Mark Daskin). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 15(2), 2013.
• A Facility Reliability Problem: Formulation, Properties and Algorithm (with Mark Daskin, Achal Bassamboo, and Sunil Chopra). Naval Research Logistics, 57(1), 2010.
• The Effect of Forecasting and Information Sharing in SCM for Multi-generation Products (with So-Young Sohn). European Journal of Operational Research, 186(1), 2008.
• Hierarchical Forecasting based on AR-GARCH Model in a Coherent Structure (with So-Young Sohn). European Journal of Operational Research, 176(2), 2007.