Professor Haksöz is a faculty member of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Sabancı School of Management, Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey. He is an affiliate member of the Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies, Regent’s College, London, UK. He is also the co-director of the MIT-Sabancı University Energy Security Initiative (MSESI).
His current research focuses on supply chain risk management, risk intelligence, supply chain and energy contract management, product recall risk management, managing supply chain networks on the Silk Road, and climate change/weather risk.
His scholarly publications appeared in Operations Research, MIT Sloan Management Review, Mathematics of Operations Research, The Journal of Operational Risk, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, and International Journal of Production Research among others. He also contributed to business journals/magazines and international newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Infomag, and DergiL=Tedarik Zinciri Yonetimi ve Lojistik. He serves as the Associate Editor of Transnational Marketing Journal and the Area Editor (Operations and Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets) for the International Journal of Emerging Markets (IJoEM).
His first book (with Sridhar Seshadri and Ananth V. Iyer) titled as ”Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk” has been published by Taylor and Francis Group, CRC Press in December 2011. He has also written an e-book (with Metin Çakanyıldırım) titled as “Global Perspectives: Turkey“, which has been published by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) in March 2012.
Professor Haksöz taught operations management, decision models, supply chain management, management science, managerial statistics, supply chain risk management, and risk management for undergraduate, MSc, MBA, EMBA, and executive programs on three regions of the globe (USA, UK, Turkey). He also held visiting lectures on operations and supply chain strategy at Poznań School of Logistics, Poznań, Poland. Professor Haksöz, acting as the academic coordinator, taught at the executive education program Myglobe- Managing Your Global Enterprises (co-developed by INSEAD) and TURQUALITY® among others. He also consults national and international firms as well as government organizations.
Before joining Sabancı University, Professor Haksöz taught at New York University, Stern School of Business, Cass Business School, City University of London, UK, and New York University in London. Between 2008-2011, he was an honorary visiting fellow at Cass Business School, City University of London, UK. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Operations Management from New York University, Stern School of Business and BSc in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey.