Operations management, supply chain management, new product development, project management, sustainability, entrepreneurship, business analytics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, UCL School of Management, UK
[1] UCL MBA New Product Development 2024
This case-based MBA course covers topics related to product, service, and business model innovation, such as idea generation and validation, design thinking, the 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.
Instructor and Course Coordinator, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
[2] New Product Marketing 2021, 2022
In this challenge-based course, students played a management simulation game called MarkStrat by StratX. This game is used in MBA and executive education programs of most business schools, including Stanford, Wharton, and INSEAD. In the 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 (HBR) articles. I achieved an evaluation score of 4.00/5.00.
[3] Technology Entrepreneurship* 2021
As the coordinator, I led a team of three instructors while teaching 265 students. In this challenge-based course, 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.
Instructor and Course Designer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
[4] Internet of Things* 2021
I co-designed and co-taught this challenge-based course where students learned and applied techniques to launch a new product (or service). Specifically, each student team generated a business idea, applied iterative validation with market testing, prepared a business plan, and designed a crowdfunding campaign. Leveraging my research expertise in contests, 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 a seed fund from the company and was featured in the TU/e newspaper.
Instructor and Course Coordinator, Bilkent University, Turkiye
[5] Introduction to Finance for Industrial Engineers 2020
In this lecture-based course, I covered basic finance concepts such as the time value of money, present worth analysis, and the rate of return analysis. I started teaching this course on campus but switched to online teaching overnight after the pandemic. I achieved 4.77/5.00 in teaching evaluations despite the large classroom size of 180 students.
Instructor and Course Coordinator, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business, US
[6] 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 Student Supervision
[1] Sidika Tunc Candogan, UCL School of Management, primary supervisor: Bilal Gokpinar, co-supervisor 2016 – 2019, 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, co-supervisor, expected graduation: September 2025.
[3] Qingye Wu, SUSTech, equal co-supervision with Xiaoshuai Fan, expected graduation: 2026.
[4] Yanrong Wang, SUSTech, equal co-supervision with Xiaoshuai Fan, expected graduation: 2029.
* This course is co-taught with other instructors, so an independent teaching evaluation is not available.