Alper Nakkas

Alper Nakkas is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Nova School of Business and Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

Before joining to Nova SBE, he worked as a research assistant professor at the operations management group of Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, as a visiting professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and as an assistant professor at the SKK Graduate School of Business, South Korea.

Professor Nakkas’ research focuses on retail supply chains with an emphasis on manufacturer-retailer collaboration practices (such as Category Captainship) in the consumer goods industry. He published in the leading journals of operations management, such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Retailing, and presented his research at conferences worldwide.

Professor Nakkas currently teaches Operations Management and Change/Process Management in the masters program at Nova SBE.

Current research interests include: Supply Chain Collaboration, Retailing, Category Management, Category Captainship, Assortment Planning, Game Theory, Network Theory