Ozge Sahin is a Professor and the Area Chair of Operations Management and Business Analytics at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She serves as the Faculty Director of Innovation Field Projects in the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School MBA Program and is a member of the school’s Academic Board and the Curriculum Committee. Professor Sahin earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Operations Research from Columbia University. Her teaching portfolio includes Operations Management, Business Analytics, and Innovation Field Project in Master’s, MBA, and EMBA programs.
Her research explores pricing and marketplace analytics with a specific emphasis on consumer behavior, strategic capacity, and supply chain management. Her recent projects analyze pricing strategies involving search costs, promotions, and consumer returns, as well as biases in sequential decision problems, assortment optimization, and marketplace fairness. Ozge has published papers in academic journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. She serves as an Associate Editor for Operations Research and Naval Research Logistics, served as an Associate Editor for M&SOM, and as the President-Elect of the MSOM Society. She was the former chair of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section. She is also a Department Editor of the Revenue Management and Pricing Area of the Decision Sciences Journal. She contributed as chair and a member of various INFORMS paper and research award committees over the years. She has been an Amazon Scholar with a focus on Retail Pricing and Sourcing Research (SCOT) since 2019.
Education
- PhD, Operations Research, Columbia University
- MS, Operations Research, Columbia University
- BS, Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University
Research
Selected publications
- S. Leider, E. Kagan , O. Sahin “Sequential Decision Making: From Decision Elicitation to Strategy Identification”, Management Science, 2025.
- N. Mutlu, H. El-Amine, O.Sahin “Offering Memories to Sell Goods? Pricing and Welfare Implications of Experiential Retail, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management “, 2023.
- R. Wang, M. Dada, O. Sahin “Pricing Ancillary Service Subscriptions,'' Management Science, 65-10, October 2019, pp. 4451-4949
- Y. Cui*, I. Duenyas, O. Sahin “Pricing of Conditional Upgrades in the Presence of Strategic Consumers,'' Management Science, 64-7, July 2018, pp. 2973-3468.
- R. Wang, O. Sahin “The Impact of Search Cost on Assortment Design and Pricing,'' Management Science, 64-8, August 2018, pp. 3469-3970.
- S. Leider, O. Sahin “Contracts, Biases and Consumption of Access Services,'' Management Science, 60(9), 2014, 2198-2222.
- Y. Cui*, I. Duenyas, O. Sahin “Should Event Organizers Prevent Resale of Tickets?'' Management Science, 60(9), 2014, 2160-2179.
- G. Gallego, O. Sahin, "Revenue Management with Partially Refundable Fares," Operations Research, 58 (4, Part 1 of 2), 2010, 817-33.
Working papers
- Can Platforms Benefit from “Bad'” Recommendations? Impact on Prices, Participation, and Welfare, with N. Kaynar, and O. Saritac
- A Step Towards Fairer Assortments: Algorithms and Welfare Implications, with W. Lu and R. Wang
- Impact of Price Strategy on Returns: A Price Transparency and Valuation Uncertainty Story, with W. Elmaghraby, Jane Jiang
Teaching
Current
- Innovation Field Project (Full Time MBA)
- Business Analytics and Insights for Data Leadership (EMBA)
Honors and distinctions
- Amazon Scholar 2019-
- Full-time MBA Program Academic Program Director 2016-2019
- Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Dean's Award for Faculty Excellence, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Co-chair of 20th Informs Revenue Management and Pricing Conference at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, 2019
- Department Editor for Revenue Management and Pricing Department, Decision Sciences Journal, 2018-
- Co-chair, Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations 2016-
- Elected Board Member, Treasurer and Secretary, MSOM Society, 2015-16
- Elected Board Member, Treasurer and Secretary, RMP Section, 2018-19
- M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2014, 2015
- First Place Winner, INFORMS Service Science Section Best Student Paper Competition (co-advised Yao Cui), 2013
- 2013 Net Institute Summer Grant
- AGIFORS Anna Valicek Medal, October 2006
- AGIFORS Annual Symposium Most Innovative Research Award, Guaruja, Brazil, September 2005
In the media
- Research Universities Advance Knowledge of Business, Finance, University Research Corridor (November 5, 2012)
- How Ticket Resales Enrich Event Promoters, Futurity (August 7, 2012)
- Admit One: Promoters Oppose Ticket-Resale Industry but Could Benefit by It, Study Finds, PRWeb (August 7, 2012)
- Beating the Box Office Blues, Ross School of Business News \& Media (May 14, 2012)
- Johns Hopkins business study reveals ways to amp up promos, QSRweb (June 22, 2018)
- Johns Hopkins Research Examines Consumer Reaction to "Conditional" Discounts. PRWeb (June 22, 2018)