Mustafa Akan

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Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Revenue management, Health care management, Manufacturing and service operations management.

Useful Links:

• Vita

Published Papers: 

• Asymmetric Information and Economies of Scale in Service Contracting
  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13(1), Winter 2011; 58-72.
  (with: B. Ata, M. Lariviere)
  
  
• Congestion-Based Leadtime Quotation for Heterogenous Customers with Convex-Concave Delay Cost Optimality of a Cost-Balancing Policy Based on Convex Hull Functions
  Operations Research, Forthcoming.
  (with: B. Ata, T. Lennon-Olsen)
  
  
• A Broader View of Designing the Liver Allocation System
  Minor Revision. Operations Research, May 2011.
  (with: O. Alagoz, B. Ata, F. Erenay, A. Said)
  
  
• Bid-Price Controls for Continuous Time Network Revenue Management: Martingale Characterization of Optimal Bid Prices
  Mathematics of Operations Research 34(4), November, 2009; 912-936.
  (with: B. Ata)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Imaging Room and Beyond: The Underlying Economics Behind Physician's Test Ordering Behavior in Outpatient Services
  January, 2012.
  (with: Sridhar Tayur, T. Dai)
  
  
• Performance Evaluation of Lattice-Dependent Base-Stock and Rationing Policies for Assemble-to-Order Systems
  October, 2011.
  (with: Emre Nadar, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
  
  
• New Functional Characterizations and Optimal Structural Results for Assemble-to-Order M-Systems
  September, 2011.
  (with: Emre Nadar, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
  
  
• Revenue Management by Sequential Screening
  July, 2008.
  (with: B. Ata, J. Dana)
  
  
• On Bid-Price Controls for Network Revenue Management
  July, 2008.
  (with: B. Ata)
  
  

Awards:

• Berkman Faculty Development Grant - 2010
• Best Paper Award of the Service Science Section of INFORMS - 2009
• Xerox Faculty Chair, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - 2009
• Received Best Dissertation Award of the Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS - 2008
• Received Honorable Mention in the MSOM Student Paper Competition of INFORMS - 2008
• Received Honorable Mention in the George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition of INFORMS - 2006
• Represented Northwestern University at the 2nd Nobel Laureates Meeting in Economic Sciences, Lindau, Germany - 2006
• Ranked 1st in the Engineering School of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey - 2004

Courses Taught:

• Operations Management Project (45839)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2012, Spring (Section: A)

• Sem. In Manufacturing Mgmt. III (47761)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2012, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2010, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2010, Mini 3 (Section: A)

• POM Seminar in Revenue Management (47763)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2013, Mini 3 (Section: A)

• Operations Management (70371)
  (BSBA Program)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2012, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2010, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2010, Fall (Section: B)
  • 2010, Spring (Section: A)

• Quality Management and Productivity (70474)
  (BSBA Program)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2012, Spring (Section: A)

• Service Operations Management (70476)
  (BSBA Program)