Aydın Alptekinoğlu [ p r o n u n c i a t i o n g u i d e ] Assistant Professor Information Technology and Operations Management SMU Cox School of Business http://www.linkedin.com/in/alptekinoglu +1 - 214 - 768 - 3324 aalp@cox.smu.edu
Bio	Aydın Alptekinoğlu is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at SMU Cox School of Business. His broad research interest lies in product strategy, with a current focus on managing product variety, offering standard versus custom products, dynamic assortment planning, market testing of products, and managing product returns.  Aydın is particularly interested in mass customization as an emerging area in academia, and a flourishing practice in a number of industries (e.g., fashion, apparel, furniture, PC, auto, biotech).  His work in this area was awarded a finalist prize in the 2003 MSOM Student Paper Competition of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences).  He currently teaches the core management science (“decision modeling”) course in Cox’s Professional MBA Program. Aydın received his PhD in Operations Management from the UCLA Anderson School, MSc in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona, and BSc in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.
Research Interests	(1) Product strategy: product variety management, mass customization, product returns (2) Supply chain management: postponement of product differentiation, inventory pooling, time-based competition, product-process innovation (3) Operations - marketing interface: advance selling, service capacity management
Published Papers	Alptekinoglu_A, Corbett_CJ, 2010, “Leadtime - Variety Tradeoff in Product Differentiation,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 12 (4): 569-582. [full text] [online supplement]
	Smith_JC, Lim_C, Alptekinoglu_A, 2009, “New Product Introduction Against a Predator: A Bilevel Mixed-Integer Programming Approach,” Naval Research Logistics, 56 (8): 714-729. [full text]
	Chen_Y, Vakharia_AJ, Alptekinoglu_A, 2008, “Product Portfolio Strategies: The Case of Multi-Function Products,” Production and Operations Management, 17 (6): 587-598. [full text] [online supplement]
	Alptekinoglu_A, Corbett_CJ, 2008, “Mass Customization versus Mass Production: Variety and Price Competition,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 10 (2): 204-217. [full text] [online supplement] [Finalist in the 2003 MSOM Society Student Paper Competition, extended abstract published in M&SOM 6 (1): 98-103.]
	Alptekinoglu_A, Tang_CS, 2005, “A Model for Analyzing Multi-Channel Distribution Systems,” European Journal of Operational Research, 163 (3): 802-824. [full text]
	Tang_CS, Rajaram_K, Alptekinoglu_A, Ou_J, 2004, “The Benefits of Advance Booking Discount Programs: Model and Analysis,” Management Science, 50 (4): 465-478. [full text]
Working Papers	Alptekinoglu_A, Banerjee_A, Paul_AA, Jain_N, 2011, “Inventory Pooling to Deliver Differentiated Service” [abstract]
	Ulu_C, Honhon_D, Alptekinoglu_A, 2010, “Learning Consumer Tastes through Dynamic Assortment” [abstract]
	Grasas_A, Alptekinoglu_A, Akcali_E, 2011, “Assortment Selection in Retailing: Strict Return Policies Call for Eccentric Products” [abstract]
	Zeinalzadeh_A, Alptekinoglu_A, Arslan_G, 2010, “Inventory Competition under Fixed Order Costs” [abstract]
	Alptekinoglu_A, Shugan_SM, 2010, “Managing Seasonal Congestion” [abstract]
Book Chapters	Alptekinoglu_A, Grasas_A, Akcali_E, 2009, “Is Assortment Selection a Popularity Contest? A Study of Assortment, Return Policy and Pricing Decisions of a Retailer,” Consumer-Driven Demand and Operations Management Models, C. S. Tang and S. Netessine (Eds.), Springer.
Teaching	ITOM 6202: Management Decision Analysis [Professional MBA Program, SMU] [Coverage: decision analysis, linear & integer programming, Monte Carlo simulation] ITOM 6201: Managerial Statistics [Professional MBA Program, SMU] [Coverage: descriptive statistics and probability, statistical inference, regression] QMB 6358: Statistical Analysis for Managerial Decisions [MSc in DIS Program, University of Florida] [Coverage: descriptive statistics and probability, statistical inference, regression] MAN 6511: Production Management Problems [MSc in DIS Program, University of Florida] [Coverage: operations strategy, product-process matrix, overview of supply chain management, aggregate production planning, process analysis, MRP, JIT, mass customization, inventory control and scheduling] QMB 6756: Managerial Quantitative Analysis II [MSc in DIS Program, University of Florida] [Coverage: decision analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, queueing theory] QMB 6755: Managerial Quantitative Analysis I [MSc in DIS Program, University of Florida] [Coverage: linear programming, network optimization, integer programming] QMB 4702: Managerial Operations Analysis II [BSc in DIS Program, University of Florida] [Basic management science models & methods] QMB 4701: Managerial Operations Analysis I [BSc in DIS Program, University of Florida] [Basic management science models & methods] QMB 7933: PhD Seminar in Operations Management [PhD Program, University of Florida] [Operations-marketing interface topics: product variety management, pricing, incentives and coordination, capacity management under leadtime sensitive demand]
Service	Member of the review board, MSOM 2011 Conference, University of Michigan
	Judge for the 2010 MSOM Student Paper Competition, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, INFORMS, the panel jointly chaired by Li Chen & Gurhan Kok (Duke).
	Member of the review board, MSOM 2009 Conference, MIT
	Judge for the 2009 MSOM Student Paper Competition, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, INFORMS, the panel jointly chaired by Hyun-soo Ahn & Damian Beil (Michigan).
	Member of the committee for establishing guidelines on how to run the MSOM conferences (7/08 – 10/08).
	Judge for the 2008 MSOM Student Paper Competition, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, INFORMS, the panel chaired by Max Shen (UC Berkeley).
	Member of the review board, MSOM 2008 Conference, University of Maryland, College Park.
	Judge for the 2007 MSOM Student Paper Competition, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, INFORMS, the panel chaired by Jeremie Gallien (MIT).
	Program committee member and chair of the “Modeling MCP (OR/MS)” track of the World Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization, MCPC 2007, MIT (Cambridge) and HEC (Montreal), October 7-12, 2007.
	Workshop organizer, A Mini-Conference on Product Strategy, 2007 DIS Workshop, Decision and Information Sciences, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, January 26-27, 2007.
	Judge for the 2006 MSOM Student Paper Competition, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, INFORMS, the panel chaired by Erica Plambeck (Stanford).
Awards	Working paper “Managing Seasonal Congestion” selected for the John D. C. Little Festschrift (June 7, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI), honoring John D. C. Little for his contributions to marketing science
	Finalist in the 2003 MSOM Student Paper Competition with the entry “Variety and Price Competition Between a Mass Customizer and a Mass Producer”