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Ozge Islegen
Ozge Islegen

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS & DECISION SCIENCES; OPERATIONS
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar
Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Print Overview
Ozge Islegen is an Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences. After receiving her PhD in Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford University, she joined Kellogg in 2011. Professor Islegen’s research interests include supply chain management, capacity management and environmental sustainability; specifically, clean energy supply chains, and capacity investment strategies under a carbon-constrained environment.

Areas of Expertise
Capacity Management
Environmental Sustainability
Supply Chain Management and Logistics
Print Vita
Education
Ph.D., 2011, Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA
B.S., 2005, Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Academic Positions
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar/Assistant Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2011-present

 
Print Research
Research Interests
Supply Chain Management, Environmental Sustainability, Capacity Management; Clean Energy Supply Chains, Capacity Investment Strategies under a Carbon Constrained Environment

Articles
Islegen, Ozge and S. J. Reichelstein. 2011. Carbon Capture by Fossil Fuel Power Plants: An Economic Analysis. Management Science. 57(1): 21-39.
Link
Islegen, Ozge and S. J. Reichelstein. 2009. The Economics of Carbon Capture. The Economists' Voice. 6(12): Article 5.
Link
Working Papers
Islegen, Ozge and Erica L. Plambeck. 2011. Capacity Leadership. Under revision.
Read
Islegen, Ozge, Erica L. Plambeck and Terry A. Taylor. 2011. Variability in Emissions-Cost: Implications for Facility Location, Production and Trade.

 
Print Teaching
Teaching Interests
Operations Management
Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Operations Management (OPNS-430-0)

This course counts toward the following majors:Operations.

Operations management is the management of business processes--that is, the management of the recurring activities of a firm. This course aims to familiarize students with the problems and issues confronting operations managers, and to provide the language, concepts, insights and tools to deal with these issues to gain competitive advantage through operations. We examine how different business strategies require different business processes and how different operational capabilities allow and support different strategies to gain competitive advantage. A process view of operations is used to analyze different key operational dimensions such as capacity management, cycle time management, supply chain and logistics management, and quality management. Finally, we connect to recent developments such as lean or world-class manufacturing, just-in-time operations, time-based competition and business re-engineering.

Operations Management (Turbo) (OPNS-438-B)
This accelerated course serves as an introduction to Operations Management. The course approaches the discipline from the perspective of the general manager, rather than from that of the operations specialist. The coverage is very selective: Students concentrate on a small list of powerful themes that have emerged recently as the central building blocks of world-class operations. The course also presents a sample of operations management tools and techniques that have proved extremely useful through the years. The topics discussed are equally relevant in the manufacturing and service sectors.