Operations management, supply chain management, new product development, entrepreneurship
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Catolica Porto Business School, Portugal
[1] Operations Management 2025-2026
In this introductory course, I covered fundamentals of operations management, including operations performance and strategy, process design and analysis, inventory management, capacity and resource planning, scheduling, project management, lean thinking, supply chain management, and sustainable and socially responsible operations using lectures, exercises, and case studies.
UCL School of Management, UK
[2] New Product Development 2024
In this MBA course, I covered product, service, and business innovation, specifically, idea generation and validation, design thinking, stage-gate process, agile development, product complexity and testing, product portfolio management, change management, and digital platforms. I achieved 4.60/5.00 in teaching evaluations.
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
[3] New Product Launch 2021, 2022
In this experiential learning course, students played a management simulation game called MarkStrat by StratX. In this game, students competed to increase their firms’ market shares by determining their pricing strategy, new market entry strategy, market segmentation, and distribution channel strategy. I supplemented the game with lectures to help students reflect on the game results and covered Harvard Business Review articles. This course is offered as an MBA course or executive education in most business schools, including Stanford, Wharton, and INSEAD. I achieved an evaluation score of 4.00/5.00.
[4] Technology Entrepreneurship* 2021
I coordinated this experiential learning course, led three instructors, and taught 265 students. Each student team developed a technological solution to a recent and relevant societal problem in health, smart mobility, or sustainable energy. To do that, students conducted technical feasibility analysis, market/situation analysis, and customer journey analysis and prepared a business pitch and a business plan using HBR articles.
[5] Internet of Things* 2021
I co-designed this experiential learning course in which each student team generated a business idea, applied iterative validation through market testing, and prepared a business plan. Leveraging my research expertise in contests and crowdfunding, I organized a contest where student teams competed with their crowdfunding campaigns. I invited managers from an incubator company to serve as judges. The winning team received seed funding from the incubator and was featured in a local newspaper.
Bilkent University, Turkiye
[6] Introduction to Finance for Industrial Engineers 2020
In this lecture-based course, I covered basic finance concepts, including the time value of money, present worth analysis, and rate of return analysis. I started teaching this course on campus, but had to switch to online teaching after the pandemic. I achieved 4.77/5.00 in student evaluations despite the pandemic and a large classroom of 180 students.
Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business, US
[7] Introduction to Business Economics 2014
In this lecture-based course, I taught basic economics concepts such as supply-demand analysis, perfect competition, and monopoly. I achieved an evaluation score of 4.27/5.00.
PhD Supervision
[1] Sidika Tunc Candogan, UCL School of Management, primary supervisor: Bilal Gokpinar, graduation: July 2022, first job: assistant professor, National University of Singapore
Winner award, INFORMS TIMES Best Dissertation Competition, 2024.
[2] Ramazan Kızılyıldırım, UCL School of Management, primary supervisor: Ersin Korpeoglu, graduation: December 2025.
[3] Qingye Wu, SUSTech, primary supervisor: Xiaoshuai Fan, graduation: January 2026.
[4] Yanrong Wang, SUSTech, primary supervisor: Xiaoshuai Fan, expected graduation: September 2029.
* This course is co-taught with other instructors, so an independent teaching evaluation is not available.