Profile
M. Serkan Akturk is an Associate Professor of Management Science in the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business at Clemson University. He received his Ph.D. in Information and Operations Management from Texas A&M University, an MBA in Financial Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the Turkish Military Academy. At Clemson, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in operations management, business analytics, statistics, and decision modeling.
Dr. Akturk's research interests include retail and sustainable operations, supply chain management, the marketing–operations interface, business analytics, and logistics. His research focuses on empirically grounded problems motivated by managerial practice, with particular emphasis on how firms can use data to better understand operational decisions and customer behavior. His work has appeared in leading journals and outlets, including Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Harvard Business Review, IISE Transactions, and Omega – The International Journal of Management Science.
Dr. Akturk currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Operations Management and Decision Sciences Journal, and as an Editorial Review Board Member for Production and Operations Management. He also regularly reviews for other leading journals in operations and supply chain management. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and Decision Sciences Institute (DSI).
