Özalp Özer is an American business professor specializing in pricing science and operations research. He is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Management Science at the

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and also currently serves as an affiliated faculty at the

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Career

Originally from Turkey, Özer attended

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, where he earned an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering in 1996. He then attended

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

where he received master's degrees in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in Operations Research. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2000, Özer worked as an assistant professor in the Management Science and Engineering Department at

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until 2007. During this time he was awarded the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishment Award by the

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Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) journal as well as the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford in 2004 and 2005. After working as an associate professor at Columbia University, he then took a position at the University of Texas at Dallas, at which time he was increasingly active in the M&SOM research community, receiving the M&SOM Meritorious Services Award in both 2011 and 2012. While at the Naveen Jindal School of Management his research interest began to focus on behavioral factors and influences in supply chains. In 2013 his work was recognized as Runner-Up for the Behavioral Operations Management Society Best Working Paper Award. In 2014, Özer was awarded the Best Paper Award by

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for his research in Trust in Forecast Information Sharing. Özer is currently one of the associate editors for the journals Management Science and

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. Özer is also co-editor, along with Robert Phillips, of ''The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management''.

References

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