Sinan Erzurumlu is Professor of Innovation and Operations Management at Babson College. Professor Erzurumlu's research, teaching and consulting interests are in the areas of strategic innovation management, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and technology & operations management. He was named a Most Favorite MBA Professor" and "The Best 40 B-School Profs Under the Age of 40 in the Poets & Quants rankings of Business School professors. He also received Kaplan Award for Sustainability in Academics and Research at Babson College.
Professor Erzurumlu concentrates his work on helping startups and large organizations to evaluate business uncertainties and manage their innovation strategy for sustainable growth and transformation. He investigates how businesses can compete on sustainability and environmental/social impact and scale up with new business models. His research has been published in leading journals including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Production and Operations Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Resources Policy, Decision Sciences Journal of Education, and Omega.
Professor Erzurumlu develops and teaches innovation, systems and design thinking, sustainability, and operations management related courses and executive education programs at Babson College. In addition, he has co-founded FutureLab on Mobility at Babson College, a design-led innovation lab with emphasis on complex problem solving for social impact. He designed and delivered an experiential project-based course at FutureLab that focuses on how students can learn and apply innovation and human-centered design principles to complex social problems for the industry and government partners. Since 2015, he has served as the Faculty Director of Babson's Full Time MBA programs. He also works with and consults for industrial clients and partners in manufacturing, healthcare, mining, and high tech.
Prior to joining Babson, Sinan has worked as a project-based consultant for Dell on service operations and as a research engineer for Center for Space Research at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned an M.S. in Operations Research/Industrial Engineering from Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Systems from McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with distinction from Bogazici University, Turkey.