Ali Parlaktürk
Professor of Operations and Benjamin Cone Scholar
Ali Parlaktürk’s research focuses on understanding the impact of strategic customer behavior, product-line choice and supply-chain design on operational decisions.
He studies how firms design their product lines using technologies like 3D printing and mass customization. He explores the impact of these innovations on both what companies offer and how they sell their products — whether through retailers or directly to consumers.
Dr. Parlaktürk also examines how customer behavior affects operations. His work on customer decision-making reveals how practices like offering frequent discounts can encourage customer bargain-hunting behavior can affect supply chains.
He also explores how companies design their supply chains, particularly in relation to partnerships and vertical integration, where a company controls multiple parts of its supply chain, instead of depending on outside suppliers or retailers.
He teaches the Business Analytics and Statistics core course and Service Operations and Revenue Analytics elective in the MBA Program. He is the PhD Program coordinator for the operations area.
Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management (POMS) have published his research.
He is associate editor for Management Science Journal and senior editor for POMS.
He received his PhD in operations, information and technology from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, his MS in statistics from Stanford University and his BS in industrial engineering from Bilkent University in Turkey.
