Curriculum Vitae

Profile | Curriculum Vitae

Gülru Özkan-Seely

EDUCATION

2009 Ph.D. in Operations Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
2003 MBA, General Management, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
2001 B.S., Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey.

AREAS OF INTEREST

New Product Development, Knowledge Management, Technology Management, Operations Strategy, Organizational and Behavioral Issues in Operations Management, Dynamic Systems, Competition, Design of Cooperation and Coordination Contracts, Signaling games.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2021 Dean’s Undergraduate Full-Time Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Runner Up Recognition, June 2021.

2021 Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award, University of Washington Bothell

Finalist, Best Paper Award, INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES), October 2020.​

2019-2020 MBA Teaching Award, School of Business, University of Washington Bothell (Bellevue location).

Finalist, Junior Faculty Best Paper Award, the 10th International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management, Guangzhou, China, December 2018.

POSITIONS HELD

2022-Present Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA.
2015-2022 Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA.
2014-2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Scheller School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
2009-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
2000-2000 Environmental Engineer, Ucer Engineering, Ankara, Turkey.
1999-1999 Environmental Engineer, Bank of Provinces, Ankara, Turkey.

SELECTED PEER REVIEWER JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

“Knowledge-based view of the use of an intermediary in new product manufacturing outsourcing” with Q. Chen, S. Wang, and A. V. Roth. Forthcoming. Decision Sciences Journal.

“Signaling Product Quality Through a Trial Period” with S. Wang. 2018. Operations Research [Lead article] 66(2) 301-312.

“The Role of Direct Outsourcing in New Product Manufacturing Strategy” with Q. Chen and A. V. Roth. 2017. Journal of Enterprise Transformation for the Special Issue on Innovation as a Catalyst for Enterprise Transformation.

“Dynamic Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Development for Product and Process Design Teams” with C. Gaimon and S. Kavadias. 2015. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) 17 (2) 177-190.

“Strategies for Environmental and Traditional Quality Efforts During New Product Development: Balancing Complementarity and Conflict.” 2014. Quality Management Journal. 21 (4) 23-35.

“Dynamic Resource Capabilities: Managing Workforce Knowledge with a Technology Upgrade” with C. Gaimon and K. Napoleon. 2011. Organization Science 22 (6) 1560-1578.

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS

“Search for the Best Alternative: An Experimental Approach,” with D. Hall and J. Hutchison-Krupat. Under second round review.

“Managing New Product Development Knowledge Between Competing Firms,” with C. Gaimon.

“A Behavioral Analysis on the Use of an Intermediary in Manufacturing Outsourcing” with Q. Chen, A. Roth and F. Switzer.

SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS

Adapting to Unknown Unknowns: Shepherding Radical Innovations to Market with S. Pathak, M. Tatikonda and P. Nye.

Managing Knowledge for Joint New Product Development with C. Gaimon.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Requirements Engineering in Business Analytics for Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management” with C. Rohleder, J. Lin, and I. Kusuma. 2014. In Advances in Conceptual Modeling, 8697 51-58, Springer International Publishing.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

“A Behavioral Analysis on the Use of an Intermediary in Manufacturing Outsourcing” with Q. Chen, A. Roth and F. Switzer. 2019. Extended abstract, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) Conference, Singapore July 2019.

“Sell A Pig in a Poke or Let the Cat out of the Bag: Signaling, Learning and Screening Quality of a New Experience Good through Trial Period” with S. Wang. 2013. Extended abstract, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Conference, Fontainebleau, France, July 2013.

“Requirements Engineering in Business Analytics for Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management” with C. Rohleder, J. Lin, and I. Kusuma. 2013. Proceedings of the RIGiM’13 Workshop, Hong Kong, November 2013.

“Business Analytics in Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management” with C. Rohleder, J. Lin, and I. Kusuma. 2013. Proceedings of the seventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Paris, France, May 2013.

“Knowledge Management in New Product Development” with C. Gaimon and S. Kavadias. Proceedings of the EUROMA Conference, (European Operations Management Association), Amsterdam, NL, July 2012.

“Knowledge Management in the New Product Development Project” with C. Gaimon, Proceedings of the EUROMA Conference, Ankara, Turkey, June 2007.

“Knowledge Management for Technology Acquisition and Implementation” with C. Gaimon and K. Napoleon, Proceedings of the EUROMA Conference, Ankara, Turkey, June 2007.

MEDIA MENTIONS

“2021 Community Engagement Award winners,” University of Washington Bothell News, March 10, 2021.

‘Stories of Impact: ‘MBA students improve food bank “flow”,’ University of Washington Bothell 2019-20 Community Engagement Annual Report, December 9, 2020.

“Business students place in Boeing competition,” University of Washington Bothell News, December 3, 2020.

“MBA students improve food bank ‘flow’,” University of Washington Bothell News, January 15, 2020.

“Stanwood Camano Food Bank Transitions to a Grocery Model,” 2019 Community Impact Report, Food Lifeline, December 31, 2019.

“Longer trial period signals product quality as does price-New research from the University of Washington-Bothell School of Business”, Newswise, April 23, 2018.

“Three ways to get ahead of technology at work,” Seattle Times, February 9, 2018.

“Managing Product and Process Design Teams for Successful New Product Development,” M&SOM Review, June 12, 2015.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

School of Business, University of Washington Bothell

  • Operations Management (Graduate level and Undergraduate level core courses)
  • Introduction to Supply Chain Management (Undergraduate level emphasis course)

Scheller College Of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Operations Management (Undergraduate level core course)
  • Management of Technology (Undergraduate level emphasis course)
  • Managing Resources of the Technological Firm (Graduate level emphasis course)
  • Management Science (Sophomore level core course)

Department of Management, Clemson University

  • Operations Management (Graduate level core course)
  • Supply Chain Management (Graduate level emphasis course)
  • Operations Management (Junior level core course)

USAC, Imperial College, London, UK

  • Comparative Economic Systems (Undergraduate/Graduate level elective course)

RESEARCH GRANTS

2013 Summer Research Grant, Clemson University $15,000.

2012 Summer Research Grant, Clemson University $15,000.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

February 2019-October 2019. Member of the INFORMS 2019 ORMS Teaching of Practice Award Committee

August 2017-Current Editorial Review Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

2013-2019, Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES), INFORMS.

2014-2017, 2021 Session Chair, College of Product Innovation and Technology Management, POMS.

Reviewer, Management Science (MS), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Journal (MSOM), Production and Operations Management Society Journal (POMS), Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), National Science Foundation (NSF), Naval Research Logistics (NRL), Journal of Business Research (JBR), International Journal of Operations Management (IJOM), International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM), International Journal of Production Research (IJPR).

2015-2016 Cluster Chair, Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Track, INFORMS Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

2008-2019 Session Chair, Technology Management and New Product Development Tracks, INFORMS Conferences.

2010-2011, 2015 Session Chair, Product Innovation and Technology Management Track, POMS Conferences.

2007 Session Chair, EUROMA Conference.

DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

Jaeseok Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology (Graduation: 2018-Expected, Placement upon graduation: University of Auckland, New Zealand).

Qiong Chen, Clemson University (Graduation: 2015, Placement upon graduation: University of Science and Technology of China).

David C. Hall, Clemson University (Graduation: 2012, Placement upon graduation: Wright State University, Dayton, OH).

Tracy Johnson-Hall, Clemson University (Graduation: 2012, Placement upon graduation: The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA).

Enrico Secchi, Clemson University (Graduation: 2012, Placement upon graduation: University of Victoria, BC, Canada).

HONORS AND AWARDS

2018 Beta Gamma Sigma The International Business Honor Society

2012 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) New Faculty Development Consortium.

2006 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Doctoral Consortium.

2001-2002 Member of Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars.

2001 Georgia State University Honor Student.

2001-2002 Georgia Rotary Student Program Scholarship.