Mehmet Altug is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the School of Business at George Mason University. 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’s 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 Management Science, 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.