亚洲AV

Mehmet Altug

亚洲AV Costello College of Business Faculty Mehmet Altug
Titles and Organizations

Director, Center for Retail Transformation and Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management
Additional Roles:聽
Academic Director, Master's in Business Analytics

Contact Information

Email: maltug@gmu.edu
Office Location: Enterprise Hall 104
Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Mehmet Altug is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Costello College of Business at 亚洲AV. Prior to joining George Mason, he was a faculty member of the Decision Sciences department at the George Washington University School of Business. He has a PhD in Decision, Risk and Operations from Columbia Business School.

His research interests are in the area of pricing and revenue management, retail operations and supply chain management. His recent work studies how consumer return policies affect retail operations including retailer鈥檚 inventory and pricing decisions and how retailers decide on their return policies in the context of opportunistic and strategic consumer behavior. He also studied the impact of gray markets and parallel imports on supply chain, pricing and product launch decisions. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the journal of Production and Operations Management and Decision Sciences. He has published in聽Management Science,听Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, California Management Review, IISE Transactions, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management and International Journal of Production Economics.

Before starting his PhD, he worked at the high-tech business unit of i2 Technologies as a supply chain consultant, solution architect and a project lead. During this period, he worked on several large-scale supply chain projects at high-profile companies around the world. He taught core operations management courses at the undergraduate, MBA and PhD levels and an elective graduate course on supply chain management and pricing and revenue management in the business analytics and MBA programs. He also taught various executive education classes on operations management, supply chain management and service operations both at private and public institutions across the nation.

He is an affiliated faculty with Center for Government Contracting and Institute for Digital InnovAtion (IDIA). He is also a member of the faculty advisory board for the Center for Retail Transformation.

Research Interests

  • Pricing and Revenue Management
  • Retail Operations
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Innovative Retail Business Models
  • Consumer Return Policies

Education

  • PhD - Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia University
  • M - Phil, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia University
  • MS - Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
  • BS - Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University

Research

  • Altug, M.S. 鈥淔lexible Consumer Return Policies and Rising Clearance Sales in Retailing: Can This Dual Trend Co-Exist?鈥, forthcoming at IISE Transactions.聽
  • Altug, M.S., O. Ceryan. 鈥淥ptimal Dynamic Allocation of Sales and Rental Inventory for Fashion Apparel Products鈥, IISE Transactions, 2022, Vol. 54(6), p. 603-617.聽Featured article in May 2022 issue of ISE Magazine聽
  • Altug, M.S., T. Aydinliyim, A. Jain. 鈥淢anaging Opportunistic Consumer Returns in Retail Operations鈥, Management Science, 2021, Vol. 67(9), p. 5660-5678.聽
  • Altug, M.S., O. Sahin. 鈥淚mpact of Parallel Imports on Product Launch and Pricing Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Industry鈥, Production and Operations Management, 2019, Vol 28(2), 258-275.聽
  • Altug, M.S. 鈥淭he Dynamics of Domestic Gray Markets and Its Impact on Supply Chains鈥, Production and Operations Management, 2017, Vol. 26(3), p. 525-541.聽聽
  • Altug, M.S., T. Aydinliyim. 鈥淐ounteracting Strategic Purchase Deferrals: The Impact of Online Retailers鈥 Return Policy Decisions鈥, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Summer 2016 Vol. 18(3), p. 376-392.聽
  • Altug, M.S. 鈥淪upply Chain Contracting for Vertically Differentiated Products鈥, International Journal of Production Economics, 2016, Vol. 171(1), p. 34-45.聽聽
  • Altug, M.S., G. van Ryzin. 鈥淚s Revenue Sharing Right for Your Supply Chain?鈥, California Management聽 Review, Summer 2014 Vol. 56(4), p. 53-81.聽聽
  • Altug, M.S., G. van Ryzin. 鈥淧roduct Quality Selection: Contractual Agreements and Supplier Competition in an Assemble-To-Order Environment鈥, International Journal of Production Economics, 2013, Vol. 141(2), p. 626鈥638.聽聽
  • Altug, M.S. 鈥淥ptimal Dynamic Return Management of Fixed Inventories鈥, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, 2012,鈥疺ol. 11, p. 569-595.聽聽
  • Altug, M.S., A. Muharremoglu. 鈥淚nventory Management with Advance Supply Information鈥, International Journal of Production Economics, 2011, Vol. 129(2), p. 302-313.聽

Media Clippings

  • September 7, 2024 - Axios
  • June 9, 2024 - The Seattle Times
  • December 18, 2023 - ModernRetail
  • December 14, 2023 - CX Dive
  • March 28, 2023 - Retail TouchPoints
  • January 27, 2023 - Modern Retail
  • June 8, 2022 - Retail Dive
  • January 25, 2022 - CNBC
  • October 20, 2021 - Northern Virginia Magazine