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FBA News
June
2007,
Why Turkey can become the economic engine of the new
Europe by Klaus Jurgens
June
2007,
Dr. Örsan Örge received the all-conference Best Paper Award at ICSB 2007 World Conference (International Council for Small Business)
more
June
2007,
Four FBA Faculty Members promoted to Associate Professor
more
June
2007,
Dr. Aslıhan Altay-Salih wins a 2007 Bilkent University Teaching Award.
more
June 2007, Prof. Dr.
Orhan Karacadağ Awards for Scientific Achievement
have been established through a generous donation
from Türkan Karacadağ and Şükran Karacadağ, loving
sisters of Prof. Orhan Karacadağ, in his memory. Dr.
Ayşe Kocabıyıkoğlu and Ms. Gülbanu Güvenç are the
first recipients of this new award.
more
June
2007,
The June 15, 2007, issue of the Economist mentioned the recent paper by Dr. Ayşe Kocabıyıkoğlu in their "What's in the Journals" column which looks at noteworthy articles from business journals.
more
May
2007,
Three FBA members recognized for 10 years of service
more
International MBA Summer Session
2007
Intensive electives offered via
prominent visiting and Bilkent faculty will be
completed in 2 weeks at a rate of 12 hours/week or
in 4 weeks at a rate of 6 hours/week.
more
New Graduate Program for 2007
We are proud to announce the launch of a new
graduate program. Bilkent and Tilburg Universities
are joining forces for an MBA/MSc dual degree
program. Applications are accepted for September
2007.
more
Significantly larger and stronger FBA for 2007-08
We are adding 8 full-time continuing faculty members and two visiting faculty members for 2007-08.
more
July 2007, FBA in
the media:
Hurriyet
June
2007, EurOMA
2007
The 14th International Annual Conference of the
European Operations Management Association will be
held at Bilkent Hotel on June 17-20.
more
June 2007, Ph.D.
Seminar on Consumption Theory
7-day intensive Ph.D. seminar to be held at the Bilkent
University, Ankara, Turkey. The seminar aims to provide
participants with a thorough knowledge of cultural approaches to
consumption research through discussions of consumption theory.
more
June 2007, FBA in
the media:
Sabah
May 2007, Bilkent MBA Students Apply Book Knowledge in Mardin
After returning from a three-day trip to Mardin, March 24th-26th, a group of Bilkent MBA students has decided to get out of the classroom and get their hands dirty in the rich Mesopotamian soil.
more
May 2007, Finance PhD recruited by top French school
Eser Arısoy, who is about to complete our PhD
program in Finance, will join the IÉSEG School of Management in Lille as an Assistant Professor
in September 2007. Dr. Aslıhan Salih-Altay served as Eser’s doctoral supervisor. We congratulate Eser for this excellent placement and wish him well in his new job.
more
The March
2007 issue of the Bilkent Business Research
Newsletter is available for download
here
May 2007, FBA becomes a STEP partner
STEP (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurial
Practices) is a global applied research project aimed at exploring corporate entrepreneurship practices within the context of family businesses.
Bilkent FBA has been invited to be the Turkish partner.
more
Case
Competition 2007
The first
Annual McKinsey & Company and Bilkent University
case competition finals took place on March 4, 2007.
more
FBA in
the media (March 2007):
Hürriyet,
Sabah
Università
Bocconi in Milan, Italy, Invites a FBA student to EconoMIX
Workshop
Tolga Uluocak, our senior year undergraduate student, took on
the challenge of Università Bocconi's online strategy game open
to 1000 students from all over the world. The online competition
consisted of four decision-making rounds, each corresponding to
one virtual year, in mobile communication device sector.
more
Best Poster
Award
Gülbanu Güvenç, our OM/DS PhD student won the best poster award
in "Affect, Motivation and Decision Making International
Conference," organized by the "Decision Making and Economic
Psychology Center" in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and
"Interdisciplinary Group in Behavioral Decision Making" in UCLA
Anderson School of Management.
more
Our academic
staff visiting prestigious universities
Four members of our academic staff have been invited by the most
prominent universities of the world to carry out research during
the 2006-2007 academic year. more
We continue
to expand
7 new faculty members have joined our faculty for the 2006-2007
academic year.
more
FBA Students
in the Finals of Unilever IdeaTrophy
The team consisting of our students Öykü Ertepınar, Caner Şenol
and Ömür Aydın made it to the finals
of the Sixth Annual
Unilever
IdeaTrophy, a marketing plan competition. more
Impact analysis on EU accession; myths and reality (Article
by Bilkent faculty member Klaus Jurgens published in the Turkish
Daily News on August 5, 2006)
Marketing
Ph.D. Student lands academic job in UK
Baskın Yenicioğlu, our second graduate from the Marketing Ph.D.
program, has also secured a position in the
UK
at the prestigious
Henley
Management
College
as a
full-time Academic Fellow. He will become a member of The School
of Reputation and Relationships, and will teach in their MBA and
MSc. programs. more
April 2006:
Bilkent receives AACSB accreditation
Our faculty received initial accreditation from AACSB
International in April 2006. This accreditation
represents the
highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide.
We are proud to be first Turkish business school to receive
AACSB accreditation.
more
April 2006: New MBA Program is launched
One of the
oldest and most prominent MBA programs in Turkey has been
transformed into the ultimate "Flex-MBA." One of our
thousands of combinations will be the right one for you.
more
April 2006: Second
Vestel Exec Ed program starts
"Vestel Yönetim Gücü" 2 Aralık 2005'te başlayan ve çok başarılı
olan "Vestel İnsan Gücü" programının devamında geliyor. Her
ikisi de Bilkent öğretim üyeleri tarafından Vestel
Yöneticilerine İzmir ve Manisa�da verilen 60 günlük yönetici
programlarıdır.
more
May 2006: Prof.
Dilek Önkal wins the Bilkent Teaching Award
Bilkent Teaching Awards Committee recognized that Prof. Önkal
has excelled in three different areas of teaching with various
class sizes and various levels of students. She regularly
taught our forecasting and decision analysis courses and
received some of the highest instructor evaluations in our
faculty over the years. Last term she added the required
second-year probability and statistics course to her list of
challenging courses delivered with great success. This course
provides further evidence of her ability to convey complex
concepts to students.
Click here for student comments.
This is the third Bilkent Award for
Excellence in Teaching won by a member of our faculty. Past
winners are Prof. Guliz Ger (1997) and Dr. Levent Akdeniz
(2005).
May 2006: Marketing Mardin
Güliz Ger, on 28 May 2006 has instructed voluntarily a group of
25 people consisting of high school boys and girls of Syriac,
Kurdish, Arabic and Turkish origin on marketing
more
May 2006:
MBA student to join the doctoral program at Harvard
Taylan Yalçın,
a second year MBA student, was recruited heavily by several
doctoral programs in the US, and he chose Harvard.
more
May 2006: Marketing Ph.D. lands academic position at Exceter
Eminegül Karababa, the first graduate of our Marketing Ph.D.
program will start as a lecturer at the
School
of
Business
and Economics in the
University of
Exeter
in September, 2006.
more
(Hürriyet, 29 July 2006) Bilkent Business Administration
only target to be among the top 100
(Sabah, 31 July 2006) Bilkent Business Administration in
the World League
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