Ahmet Colak

Ahmet is a Clinical Associate Professor of Supply Management at Arizona State University's W.P Carey School of Business. At ASU, he mainly teaches applied supply chain management courses relating to logistics, sourcing, and negotiation. His teaching interests cover a rich domain of operational strategies across supply chain industries. His teaching has an applied emphasis on better understanding operational communication, coordination, scaling, and transformation. He enjoys teaching and developing practice-driven course materials using interactive case studies and simulations. Prior to ASU, he worked as an assistant professor of Supply Chain Management at Clemson University and the University of North Carolina. During his graduate studies, he obtained his doctoral degree in Operations Management from Kellogg School of Management and his master’s degree in economics from Northwestern University. 

Ahmet has extensive research experiences relating to his academic career. His research studies service and supply chain operations from a strategic view and addresses decision making from unstructured data. Methodologically, he uses empirical frameworks such as structural econometrics and predictive analytics. Studying complex data sets from supply chain relationships, government agencies, online reviews, and labor work experiences, his research areas focus on improving decision making and policy design across major auto, manufacturing, retail, and service industries. 

Ahmet has held more than 60 research presentations at prestigious business schools, companies, and conferences, including INFORMS, MSOM, POMS, and DSI. Ahmet has also served more than 50 times as a reviewer for multiple prestigious academic journals including Management Science, MSOM, JOM, POM, Decision Sciences, Service Science, IISE Transactions, NBR and NSF. Previously, he has served in and advised 6 doctoral dissertation committees at Clemson, Kellogg, and the USC, achieving a 100% academic placement record. In his free times, Ahmet likes to spend time on his hobbies including photography, archeology, and diving.