Şafak Yücel

Associate Professor of Operations Management

McDonough School of Business

Georgetown University

Research Interests

Sustainable Operations, Renewable Energy Operations, Business Model Innovation

Publications

1. Design of Electricity Demand-Response Programs, with Vishal Agrawal. 2022. Management Science, 68(10), 7441-7456.

2. Non-ownership Business Models for Solar Energy, with Vishal Agrawal and Beril Toktay. 2022. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 24(4), 2048-2063.

3. Smart Charging of Electric Vehicles: An Innovative Business Model for Utility Firms, with Owen Wu and Yangfang (Helen) Zhou. 2022. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 24(5), 2481-2499. 

4. Promoting Solar Panel Investments: Feed-in-tariff versus Tax-rebate Policies, with Volodymyr Babich and Ruben Lobel. 2020. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 22(6), 1148-1164.

5. Investments in Renewable and Conventional Energy: The Role of Operational Flexibility, with Gürhan Kök and Kevin Shang. 2020. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 22(5), 925-941.

6. Impact of Electricity Pricing Policies on Renewable Energy Investments and Carbon Emissions, with Gürhan Kök and Kevin Shang. 2018. Management Science, 64(1), 131-148.

7. Inventory Management in a Closed-loop Supply Chain with Advance Demand Information, with Li Chen and Kaijie Zhu. 2017. OR Letters, 45(2), 175-180. 

Papers under Review and Working Papers 

8. Investment in Wind Energy: The Role of Subsidies, with Saed Alizamir and Foad Iravani. Under revision for resubmission to Management Science.

9. Delivery Terms for Voluntary Carbon Offsets, with Vishal Agrawal and Gökçe Esenduran. Under revision for resubmission.

10. Additionality of Carbon Offsets: Project-specific vs. Standardized Baselines, with Vishal Agrawal and Soudipta Chakraborty. Under review at Management Science.

Book Chapter

Renewable Energy Sourcing, with Vishal Agrawal. Responsible Business Operations, V. Deshpande and J. Swaminathan (Eds.), Springer Series in Supply Chain Management.