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 +1 - 214 - 768 - 3324 aalp@cox.smu.edu
Bio	Dr. Aydın Alptekinoğlu holds a PhD in Operations Management from the UCLA Anderson School, and has an industrial engineering background.  Intellectual pursuits that excite him center on product strategy of firms, dealing with questions of managing product variety, designing product lines, standardization versus customization of products, market testing of products, time-based competition, and product-process innovation.  Dr. Alptekinoğlu 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 has papers published or forthcoming in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and European Journal of Operational Research.
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	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]
	Alptekinoglu_A, Tang_CS, 2005, “A Model for Analyzing Multi-Channel Distribution Systems,” European Journal of Operational Research, 163 (3): 802-824. [full text]
	Alptekinoglu_A, 2004, “Mass Customization versus Mass Production: Variety and Price Competition,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 6 (1): 98-103. [Extended abstract of the working paper chosen finalist in the 2003 MSOM Student Paper Competition] [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, Corbett_CJ, 2009, “Leadtime - Variety Tradeoff in Product Differentiation” [full text]
	Smith_JC, Lim_C, Alptekinoglu_A, 2009, “New Product Introduction against a Predator: A Bilevel Mixed-Integer Programming Approach” [abstract]
	Alptekinoglu_A, Shugan_SM, 2008, “Managing Seasonal Congestion” [abstract]
	Grasas_A, Alptekinoglu_A, Akcali_E, 2008, “When to Carry Eccentric Products? Optimal Assortment under Product Returns” [abstract]
	Alptekinoglu_A, Jain_N, Paul_AA, 2008, “Inventory Pooling to Deliver Differentiated Service” [abstract]
	Alizamir_S, Alptekinoglu_A, Sapra_A, 2007, “Demand Management Using Responsive Pricing and Product Variety in the Presence of Supply Chain Disruptions” [abstract]
Book Chapters	Alptekinoglu_A, Grasas_A, Akcali_E, 2008, “Is Assortment Selection a Popularity Contest? A Study of Assortment, Return Policy and Pricing Decisions of a Retailer,” Forthcoming in Consumer-Driven Demand and Operations Management Models, C. S. Tang and S. Netessine (Eds.), Springer.
Teaching	ITOM 6201 - Managerial Statistics [Professional MBA Program] · Coverage: descriptive statistics and probability, statistical inference, regression
Service	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, honoring John D. C. Little for his contributions to the science of marketing
	Finalist in the 2003 MSOM Student Paper Competition with the entry “Variety and Price Competition Between a Mass Customizer and a Mass Producer”