Associate Professor Alex Qian

School of Business

2012
Ph.D., Business Administration, University of British Columbia, Canada
2003
M.Sc., Logistics and Supply Chain Management, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2003
M.Sc., Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
2001
B.Sc., Mathematics, Nanjing University, China

2015 – 2018
Deputy Head & Head, Business Programme, School of Business, SIM University & SUSS
2014 – Present
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, School of Business, SIM University/SUSS
2011 - 2014
Assistant Professor, School of International Business Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
2014
Research Fellow, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong
2009
Instructor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Chen, H., Qian, Q., Zhang, A. (2014) Would allowing privately funded health services reduce the public waiting time? Empirical evidence from Canadian joint replacement surgery data. Production and Operations Management 24(4): 605-618.
Baron, O., Hu, M., Naja-Asadolahi, S., .Qian, Q. (2015) Newsvendor selling to loss averse consumers with stochastic reference points. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17(4): 456-469.
Qian, Q., Guo, P., Lindsey, R. (2017) Comparison of subsidy schemes for reducing waiting times in healthcare systems. Production and Operations Management 26(11): 2033-2049.
Qian, Q., Zhuang, W. (2017) Tax/subsidy and capacity decisions in a two-tier health system with welfare redistributive objective. European Journal of Operational Research 260: 140-151.
Zhou, W., Li, X., Qian, Q. (2021) Comparison of gatekeeping and non-gatekeeping designs in a service system with delay-sensitive customers. Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering 30(2): 125-150.

Educational Qualifications