He is a professor of technology operations management at INSEAD,[1] where he holds the Henry Ford Chaired Professorship in Manufacturing.
He is also the Director of the Humanitarian Research Group and a Fellow of CEDEP, the European Center for Executive Education, based in France.
With 2018's naming as a Fellow of INFORMS for pioneering work on closed loop supply chains (sustainability) and humanitarian operations, Luk is the first professor to be recognised by five major professional Operations Management and Management Science societies.
[2] In his 2003 Harvard Business Review article with Daniel Guide[3] he explored the challenges of managing a "reverse supply chain" in which manufacturers take back used products and repurpose them.
In his 2009 book with Rolando Tomasini[6] he explored the challenges of creating logistics capabilities for situations of high uncertainty in terms of timing and location.