Retail operations, supply
chain management, and airline operations
Operations Management & Quantitative Methods
Professor Alan’s research focuses on understanding the impact of firms’ operational decisions on their external stakeholders, including customers, investors, suppliers, competitors, and regulators. For example, some of his studies in the retail operations domain examine the role of retailers’ category management practices in their strategic interactions with manufacturers and consumers. Additionally, his airline industry studies analyze the interplay between airlines, investors, passengers, and regulators. Professor Alan has an interdisciplinary research agenda, bringing theories and methods from several fields, including operations management, economics, engineering, quantitative marketing, and finance. His work has been published in top operations and marketing journals. Professor Alan teaches the managerial statistics core course and a supply chain management elective in the MBA program. He received numerous research, teaching, and service awards, including the Dean’s Teaching and Research Productivity awards at the Owen School.
Professor Alan earned the Meritorious and Distinguished Service Awards from Management Science and the Meritorious Service Award from M&SOM. He was also named one of "The 40 Best Business Professors Under 40" by Poets & Quants in 2018.
Professor Alan's research has appeared in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and the Journal of Marketing.
Professor Alan teaches Operations Management and Supply Chain Management in the MBA program.
In the retail operations
domain, Professor Alan explores the operational and financial implications of
retailers' category and inventory management practices. Professor Alan also
conducts research in airline operations, where he studies the operational
determinants of financial success.
Ph.D., Production and Operations Management, Cornell University, 2012
M.Sc., Management, Cornell University, 2012
M.Sc., Operations Research, Cornell University, 2008
B.Sc., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006
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Alan, Y., M. Kurtulus, C.
Wang. 2019. The role of store brand spillover in a retailer's category
management strategy. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 21(3)
620--635.
Alan, Y., V. Gaur. 2018.
Operational investment and capital structure under asset-based lending. Manufacturing
& Service Operations Management. 20(4), 637--654.
Alan, Y., M.A. Lapre. 2018.
Investigating operational predictors of future financial distress in the U.S.
airline industry. Production and Operations Management. 27(4) 734-755.
Alan, Y., J.P. Dotson, M. Kurtulus. 2017. On the
competitive and collaborative implications of category captainship. Journal
of Marketing. 81(4) 127-143.
Alan, Y., G.P. Gao, V.
Gaur. 2014. Does inventory productivity predict future stock returns? A
retailing industry perspective. Management Science. 60(10)
2416-2434.