Feryal Erhun

Professor of Operations & Technology Management

BS, MS (Bilkent University), MS, PhD (Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University)

My research interests include strategic interactions between stakeholders in supply chains and socially responsible operations. I’m a strong proponent of practice-based research and through collaborations with Intel Corporation, Stanford University Medical Center and others, I’ve combined my academic interests with firms’ needs to deliver insights for both communities.

I’m a member of the Operations and Technology Management subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School, which focuses on practice-based research through partner organisations to address a wide spectrum of management challenges.

Professional experience

Feryal is a strong proponent of practice-based research. Through collaborations with Intel Corporation, Cisco, Stanford University Medical Center and others, she has been able to combine her academic interests with firms’ needs to deliver insights for both communities. At Stanford, her research group designed a decision-support system for optimising capital investment decisions for firms in capital-intensive industries in collaboration with Intel Corporation, which was selected as one of the finalists in the 2012 Franz Edelman Award. The Award recognises outstanding examples of innovative operations research that improves organisations; Feryal was also inducted as an Edelman Laureate.

Feryal is an editorial board member of the Production and Operations Management Society and the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Previous appointments

Feryal Erhun was previously an Instructor in Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. She was a faculty member in the Management Science and Engineering Department of Stanford University from 2002 until 2013.

Awards and honours

  • Edelman Laureate, INFORMS, 2012
  • Finalist, Edelman Award Competition, INFORMS, 2012
  • Moving Spirit Award for Fora, INFORMS, 2011
  • Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2010
  • First Prize, INFORMS Case Competition, 2010
  • Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2006
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2006
  • Licensing Research Incentive Award, Stanford Office of Technology, 2003-2004
  • Gabilan Award, Stanford University, 2002-2003
  • First Prize, Student Paper Competition, YA/EM, 1995

News and insights

When COVID-19 travel restrictions were introduced, it sparked a trend towards remote participation in clinical assessments of new medicines’ safety and efficacy. A new study co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School outlines a framework to assess when decentralised drug trials provide the greatest value to the system.

World Case Teaching Day 2023 provides an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the ways in which Cambridge Judge Business School engages with the case teaching method.

Studies on COVID-19 modelling by Paul Kattuman and marginalisation by Shahzad Ansari are named runners-up in the annual Responsible Business Education Awards of the Financial Times.

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