Meet the master program faculty

Country of origin: Turkey/USA 
School where PhD/training was completed: INSEAD 
Current research area/focus: entrepreneurship, gender gaps in leadership and entrepreneurship, healthcare finance, mergers and acquisitions 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE: Financial Management and Entrepreneurial Finance 
Fun fact: (not really a fun fact, but kind of interesting fact). Studied, lived and worked in 5 countries in the last 20 years (England, France, USA, Italy and Germany).  

"It lays the foundations of modern finance theory based on Nobel Prize winning theories in financial economics. Using finance theory to understand the creation and growth of entrepreneurial startups"

Country of origin: UK 
School where PhD/training was completed: PhD University of Warwick; post-doc University of Oxford. 
Current research area/focus: Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE: Business Economics 
 

"We will explore business-relevant economic concepts and results, bringing them to life through applications and interactive exercises. The questions we will address range from the fundamental, e.g., 'What are the benefits of a free market?' to the practical, e.g., 'How should you price a product line?'

Country of origin: United States 
School where PhD/training was completed: Columbia University 
Current research area/focus: semantic network analysis; status measured through eigenvector centrality 
Classes taught in the MGM: Status and Organizations: Approaches to Leading with Agility  
Fun fact: I played basketball in the junior Olympics  
 

“Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers 

Country of origin: Turkey 
School where PhD/training was completed: London Business School 
Current research area/focus: Operational Innovation in Healthcare 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Operations and Global Supply Chain Management 
Fun fact: I was the co-founder of Bilkent University Baking Club during my college years. 
 

"You can't manage or improve what you can't measure." 

Country of origin: France
School where PhD/training was completed: The University of Melbourne, Australia
Current research area/focus: Social Network Analysis
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Managing Organizations and Organizational Analytics
Fun fact: I convinced my family to spend a night with me in a treehouse in the middle of the Amazon forest.

“No one can effectively implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations run by first-generation managers.”   -  Bartlett and Ghoshal (1990)

Country of origin: UK/Spain 
School where PhD/training was completed: London Business School 
Current research area/focus: How we judge unethical behavior, moral lay theories, moral messaging around disability, and negotiations. 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Negotiations 
Fun fact: I once walked from Bordeaux to Valencia. 
 

Country of origin: Sweden 
School where PhD/training was completed: PhD from Chalmers University of Technology and post doc from Stanford University. 
Current research area/focus: Innovation, entrepreneurship, new technologies 
Fun fact: I once broke my arm while arm wrestling with a childhood friend. We are still friends even though he won. 
 

"AI is changing how we innovate by opening new ways to solve problems and think creatively. But many people still don’t understand how to leverage it to the fullest potential." 

Country of origin: South Korea 
School where PhD/training was completed: INSEAD 
Current research area/focus: Entrepreneurial strategy, social networks, machine learning 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Foundations of Strategic Management 
Fun fact: I’ve lived across four continents and seven cities in the past ten years. 
 

“The principles of strategic management will be a compass guiding you through the complexities of business, illuminating paths to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage, and empowering you to shape the future of organizations.” 

Country of origin: Germany
School where PhD/training was completed: Duke University
Current research area/focus: Valuation
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE: Financial Accounting
Fun fact: Lived in 7 countries 

"A = L + E"

Country of origin: Greece 
School where PhD/training was completed: University of Warwick, Warwick Business School   
Current research area/focus: Strategy & Innovation 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE: Foundations of Entrepreneurship (MIE), Organizing for Innovation (MIE), Ambidextrous Leadership (MGM) 
Fun fact: So far I have travelled to 29 Greek islands, there are approximately only 198 to go! 
 

“There is nothing more practical than a good theory” - Kurt Lewin 

Country of origin: Turkey 
School where PhD/training was completed: Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business
Current research area/focus: Decision Sciences/Incentive Management  
Classes taught in the MGM/MAAI : Advanced Decision Analysis (MAAI), and Statistics in (MGM)
Fun fact: I have never tried doner kebap in Berlin. 

Country of origin: Greece 
School where PhD/training was completed: University of Warwick, Warwick Business School   
Current research area/focus: Strategy & Innovation 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE: Foundations of Entrepreneurship (MIE), Organizing for Innovation (MIE), Ambidextrous Leadership (MGM) 
Fun fact: So far I have travelled to 29 Greek islands, there are approximately only 198 to go! 
 

“There is nothing more practical than a good theory” - Kurt Lewin 

Country of origin: Turkey/USA 
School where PhD/training was completed: INSEAD 
Current research area/focus: entrepreneurship, gender gaps in leadership and entrepreneurship, healthcare finance, mergers and acquisitions 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE: Financial Management and Entrepreneurial Finance 
Fun fact: (not really a fun fact, but kind of interesting fact). Studied, lived and worked in 5 countries in the last 20 years (England, France, USA, Italy and Germany).  

"It lays the foundations of modern finance theory based on Nobel Prize winning theories in financial economics. Using finance theory to understand the creation and growth of entrepreneurial startups"

Country of origin: UK 
School where PhD/training was completed: PhD University of Warwick; post-doc University of Oxford. 
Current research area/focus: Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE: Business Economics 
 

"We will explore business-relevant economic concepts and results, bringing them to life through applications and interactive exercises. The questions we will address range from the fundamental, e.g., 'What are the benefits of a free market?' to the practical, e.g., 'How should you price a product line?'

Country of origin: Turkey 
School where PhD/training was completed: London Business School 
Current research area/focus: Operational Innovation in Healthcare 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Operations and Global Supply Chain Management 
Fun fact: I was the co-founder of Bilkent University Baking Club during my college years. 
 

"You can't manage or improve what you can't measure." 

Country of origin: France
School where PhD/training was completed: The University of Melbourne, Australia
Current research area/focus: Social Network Analysis
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Managing Organizations and Organizational Analytics
Fun fact: I convinced my family to spend a night with me in a treehouse in the middle of the Amazon forest.

“No one can effectively implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations run by first-generation managers.”   -  Bartlett and Ghoshal (1990)

Country of origin: Sweden 
School where PhD/training was completed: PhD from Chalmers University of Technology and post doc from Stanford University. 
Current research area/focus: Innovation, entrepreneurship, new technologies 
Fun fact: I once broke my arm while arm wrestling with a childhood friend. We are still friends even though he won. 
 

"AI is changing how we innovate by opening new ways to solve problems and think creatively. But many people still don’t understand how to leverage it to the fullest potential." 

Country of origin: Germany
School where PhD/training was completed: Duke University
Current research area/focus: Valuation
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE: Financial Accounting
Fun fact: Lived in 7 countries 

"A = L + E"

Country of origin: Germany
School where PhD/training was completed: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Current research area/focus: Innovation, Hidden Champions and Family Firms, Sales
Classes taught in the MIE: Design Thinking
Fun fact: Being a “Kölsch Mädche” I love the Cologne Carnival.

"Design thinking isn't just a methodology; it's a mindset that transforms human-centered challenges into opportunities for innovation."

Country of origin: Germany
School where PhD/training was completed: London Business School
Current research area/focus: Innovation, digital transformation, Design Thinking, energy transformation, sustainability
Classes taught in the MIE: Design Thinking, Sustainable Energy Future
Fun fact: Tried to become rich with producing NFTs and publishing them on web3 marketplaces (failed, at the least the part of becoming rich)

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.” - Bill Gates

Country of origin: South Korea 
School where PhD/training was completed: INSEAD 
Current research area/focus: Entrepreneurial strategy, social networks, machine learning 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Foundations of Strategic Management 
Fun fact: I’ve lived across four continents and seven cities in the past ten years. 
 

“The principles of strategic management will be a compass guiding you through the complexities of business, illuminating paths to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage, and empowering you to shape the future of organizations.” 

Country of origin: Germany 
School where PhD/training was completed: University of Oxford 
Current research area/focus: AI and Entrepreneurship 
Classes taught in the MIE/MAAI: Econometrics, Large language models 
Fun fact: Publications can take a long time. My PhD thesis, a project started in 2013, will be published in 2024, eleven years later. 
 

 "Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom." 

Country of origin: Romania 
School where PhD/training was completed: Cornell University 
Current research area/focus: Credit risk, customer analytics 
Classes taught in the MAAI: Analytics leadership 

“All models are wrong. Some are useful. (G.E.P. Box)” 

Country of origin: Turkey 
School where PhD/training was completed: London Business School 
Current research area/focus: Operational Innovation in Healthcare 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Operations and Global Supply Chain Management 
Fun fact: I was the co-founder of Bilkent University Baking Club during my college years. 
 

"You can't manage or improve what you can't measure." 

Country of origin: Germany/Switzerland 
School where PhD/training was completed: University of Goettingen 
Current research area/focus: Business ethics 
Classes taught in the MAAI: Analytics and Society
Fun fact: I collect selfies in front of McDonald’s and sort literature, art, and philosophy books by date of birth of the author.

“Analytics and AI will shape our future – for the better or worse. I am rather optimistic, but business will need to contribute to turn them into drivers of societal benefit.”
 

Country of origin: Russia
School where PhD/training was completed: Humboldt University Berlin
Current research area/focus:  Leveraging advanced analytics to understand consumer behavior and devise environmentally sustainable strategies
Classes taught in the MAAI: Value Chain Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Advanced Marketing Modeling, Consumer Preference Modeling

"The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight." - Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard 

Country of origin: Germany 
School where PhD/training was completed: University of Mannheim, Germany 
Current research area/focus: Labour Markets and Immigration 
Classes taught in the MAAI: Machine Learning and Causality 
 

" In this class we connect the predictive power of machine learning with the quest for answers to causal questions that help us make thorough decisions."

Country of origin: Turkey, Canada 
School where PhD/training was completed: Columbia University, New York, USA 
Current research area/focus: Human-AI collaboration, sustainable operations
Classes taught in the MAAI: Modeling and AI for Sustainability  
 

"My course will not focus on predictions and predictive analytics, but rather prescriptive models and strategies for improving sustainability of business operations."

Country of origin: Germany 
School where PhD/training was completed: University of Oxford 
Current research area/focus: AI and Entrepreneurship 
Classes taught in the MIE/MAAI: Econometrics, Large language models 
Fun fact: Publications can take a long time. My PhD thesis, a project started in 2013, will be published in 2024, eleven years later. 
 

 "Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom." 

Country of origin: South Korea 
School where PhD/training was completed: INSEAD 
Current research area/focus: Entrepreneurial strategy, social networks, machine learning 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Foundations of Strategic Management 
Fun fact: I’ve lived across four continents and seven cities in the past ten years. 
 

“The principles of strategic management will be a compass guiding you through the complexities of business, illuminating paths to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage, and empowering you to shape the future of organizations.” 

Country of origin: France
School where PhD/training was completed: The University of Melbourne, Australia
Current research area/focus: Social Network Analysis
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Managing Organizations and Organizational Analytics
Fun fact: I convinced my family to spend a night with me in a treehouse in the middle of the Amazon forest.

“No one can effectively implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations run by first-generation managers.”   -  Bartlett and Ghoshal (1990)

Country of origin: UK/Spain 
School where PhD/training was completed: London Business School 
Current research area/focus: How we judge unethical behavior, moral lay theories, moral messaging around disability, and negotiations. 
Classes taught in the MGM/MIE/MAAI: Negotiations 
Fun fact: I once walked from Bordeaux to Valencia. 
 

Country of origin: Turkey 
School where PhD/training was completed: Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business
Current research area/focus: Decision Sciences/Incentive Management  
Classes taught in the MGM/MAAI : Advanced Decision Analysis (MAAI), and Statistics in (MGM)
Fun fact: I have never tried doner kebap in Berlin.