Winter Nie is Professor of Operations and Service Management at IMD.

Her areas of research interest are service management and supply chain management.

Winter Nie's new book, Made in China-Secrets of China's Dynamic Entrepreneurs, takes an insider's look at Chinese entrepreneurs' path to success and offers insights as how MNCs could compete and/or work with them. She has also co-authored a book on Managing Global Operations, and is the author of many articles, case studies, and book chapters. Her research has appeared in such journals as Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Interface, and OMEGA (International Journal of Management Science). Currently she is researching and developing cases in financial service industries, professional services, and client-supplier partnership, and supply chain. She has also written many cases on Chinese companies.

Professor Nie has provided training programs for and consulted with companies in pharmaceutical, telecommunications, automotive, food and beverage, machinery, and electronics industries as well as financial and professional services.

She has taught programs in US, Britain, France, Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and China. She has won several teaching and research awards. Professor Nie holds a PhD in Operations Management from the University of Utah (USA).