Faculty Profile

Onur BOYABATLI

Professor of Operations Management; Area Coordinator, Operations Management; Member, University Tribunal

LKCSBFull-time Faculty

Email
oboyabatli@smu.edu.sg

Phone
68280247

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Areas

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Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Asian & ASEAN Initiatives
- Communication Management
- - Crisis Communication & Management
  - Judgment and Decision- Making
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Digital Business
- Finance
- - Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
  - Financial Innovation and FinTech
  - Sustainable Finance
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- - Consumer Judgment and Decision-making
- Operations Management
- - Supply Chain Strategy and Risk Management
  - Business Analytics
  - Sustainable Operations and Investments (including Energy, Natural Resources, and Transportation)
  - Operations Strategy
  - E-Commerce and Marketplace Analytics
  - Purchasing and Sourcing Management
  - Operations Planning, Scheduling and Control
  - Inventory, Logistics and Transportation Management
- Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
- - Judgement and Decision-making, Negotiation
- Quantitative Finance
- - Risk Management and Quantitative Trading
- Social Inclusion
- Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- - Entrepreneurship
  - Digital transformation and platform strategies
  - Sustainable and socially responsible strategy
  - Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Management
  - Strategic Partnerships
  - Competitive Strategy
- Sustainable Business
School of Accountancy
- Corporate Governance, Auditing & Risk Management
- - Risk Management
- Corporate Reporting & Disclosure
- Financial Performance Analysis
- - Pricing of Credit Risk
School of Computing and Information Systems
- Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
- - Data Management & Mining
  - Decision Making & Optimization
- Learning & Work
- - Analytics & Decision Support
- Urban & Sustainability
- - Urban Logistics & Sustainability
School of Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- - Industrial Organisation
- International Economics
- - Foreign Direct Investment / Multinational Firms
- Microeconomic Theory
- - Decision Theory
  - Game Theory

Strategic Priorities

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Digital Transformation
Growth in Asia
Sustainable Living

Education

2007	Ph.D.in Management INSEAD
2003	M.S. in Management INSEAD
2001	M.S. in Industrial Engineering Bilkent University
1999	B.S. in Industrial Engineering Bilkent University

Current Position(s) Held

2023 - Now	Professor of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2024 - Now	Area Coordinator of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2015 - 2023	Associate Professor of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2019 - 2021	DBS Sustainability Fellow
2017 - 2020	Area Coordinator of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2017	Lee Kong Chian Fellow
2007 - 2015	Assistant Professor of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Research Interests

Manufacturing Flexibility and Capacity Management including Integration with Financial Decisions/Risks and New Business Models

Operational Decision Making in Agriculture with an Emphasis on Sustainability (podcast)(video)

Sustainable Operations (podcast)

Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains

Supply Chain Finance (roundtable discussion)

Awards, Recognition and Honors

Senior Editor, Production & Operations Management, August 2022 - present
Associate Editor (Guest), Manufacturing & Services Operations Management, January 2021 - present
Associate Editor, Decision Sciences, January 2026 - present
Member of The Environment and Resources Standards Committee, Singapore Standards Council, August 2023 - present
Keynote Speaker, "Sustainability in Global Value Chains," LBS Singapore Global Experience, February 2025, Singapore
Keynote Speaker, "Sustainability in Global Value Chains," LBS Singapore Global Experience, March 2024, Singapore
Dean's Teaching Honor List PG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2023
Chair for Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management (iFORM) Special Interest Group (SIG), MSOM Society, INFORMS, 2020 - 2022
Dean's Teaching Honor List PG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2022
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2022
Dean's Teaching Honor List PG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2021
Dean's Teaching Honor List PG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2020
DBS Sustainability Fellowship, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2020
DBS Sustainability Fellowship, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2019
MBA Teaching Excellence Award, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2019
(Inaugural) Dean's Teaching Honor List PG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2019
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2019
Associate Editor for Manufacturing & Services Operations Management journal, January 2019 - December 2020
Meritorious Service Award from Manufacturing & Services Operations Management journal, 2018
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2018
Meritorious Service Award from Manufacturing & Services Operations Management journal, 2017
Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2017
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2017
Selected for Singapore Business Review's "Influential Business Professors", 2016
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2016
Associate Editor for Manufacturing & Services Operations Management journal, Special issue on Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management (iFORM), 2016
Meritorious Service Award from Manufacturing & Services Operations Management journal, 2016
Meritorious Service Award from Management Science journal, 2015
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2015
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2014
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2013
Distinguished Service Award from Management Science journal, 2012
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2012
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2011
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2010
Dean's Teaching Honor List UG, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, 2009
Fellowship awarded by INSEAD, 2001 - 2005
Best Session Paper Award in SCI 2003 (7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics) with "Simulation-Optimization with Genetic Algorithms; Analysis of Numerical Parameters.", 2003
Bilkent University Fellowship for Graduate Students (Highest Grade) , 1999 - 2001
Bilkent University Fellowship for Undergraduate Students, 1995 - 1999
All Turkey rank-153 (among 500,000 candidates) in the joint university entrance examination, 1995

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

Bin L. O. Boyabatli, B.Avci. 2023. "Economic and Environmental Implications of Biomass Commercialization in Agricultural Processing," Management Science, 69 (6), 3561-3577.
Boyabatli, O., J. Nasiry, Y. Zhou. 2019. “Crop Planning in Sustainable Agriculture: Dynamic Farmland Allocation in the Presence of Crop Rotation Benefits,” Management Science, 65 (5), 2060-2076.
Boyabatlı, O., Q. D. Nguyen, T. Wang. 2017. “Capacity Management in Agricultural Commodity Processing and Its Application in the Palm Industry,” Manufacturing & Services Operations Management, 19 (4), 551-567 (lead article).
Boyabatlı, O., T. Leng, L.B. Toktay. 2016. “The Impact of Budget Constraints on Flexible versus Dedicated Technology Choice,” Management Science, 62 (1), 225-244.
Boyabatlı, O. 2015. “Supply Management in Multi Product Firms with Fixed Proportions Technology,” Management Science, 61 (12), 3013-3031.
Boyabatlı, O., P. Kleindorfer, S. Koontz, 2011. “Integrating Long-term and Short-term Contracting in Beef Supply Chains,” Management Science, 57 (10), 1771-1787.
Boyabatlı, O., L.B. Toktay, 2011. “Stochastic Capacity Investment and Flexible versus Dedicated Technology Choice in Imperfect Capital Markets,” Management Science, 57 (12), 2163-2179.

Book Publication

"Agricultural Supply Chain Management Research: Operations and Analytics in Planting, Selling, and Government Interventions", by Onur Boyabatli, B. Kazaz, C. Tang (Eds.), 2022, Springer Series in Supply Chain Management
"Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains", by Kouvelis P, L Dong, Onur Boyabatli, L Rong (Eds.), 2011, John Wiley & Sons Inc

Former Graduate Students

LU Liling (co-supervisor), Graduated in June 2023.
Thesis: Essays on New Business Models in Operations
Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.
LUO Qian, Graduated in June 2021.
Thesis: Essays on Scarce Resource Management
Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Intelligent Operations and Marketing at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
LI Bin, Graduated in 2020.
Thesis: Essays on Agricultural Commodity Processing
Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, China.
YANG Boya, Graduated in 2020.
Thesis: Stochastic Capacity Management in the Presence of Production Resource Disruption
Placement: Operations Improvement Engineer, Micron Technologies, Singapore.