L. Beril Toktay
Brady Family Chair in Management;Professor;Faculty Director, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business at The Scheller College of Business
Biography
The Scheller College of Business
Research
- Sustainable Operations
- Closed-Loop Supply Chains
- Supply Chain Management
Education
- PhD, Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
- MS, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1994
- BS, Industrial Engineering and Mathematics, Boğaziçi University, 1992
Biography
Beril Toktay is Professor of Operations Management, Brady Family Chairholder. Her primary research areas are sustainable operations and supply chain management. Professor Toktay's research has been funded by several National Science Foundation grants and has received distinctions such as the 2010 Brady Family Award for Faculty Research Excellence and the MSOM Society's 2015 Management Science Best Paper in Operations Management Award. Her research articles have appeared in Management Science, M&SOM, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management and Industrial Ecology. She became a Distinguished Fellow of the MSOM Society in 2017.
Professor Toktay has taught Supply Chain Management courses at the PhD, MBA, and Executive Education levels as well as Operations Management and Operations Research courses at the PhD level. She has developed cases and pedagogical material for MBA and Executive Education audiences and co-curricular educational initiatives at the undergraduate level. She currently teaches Business Strategies for Sustainability in MBA and Executive Education programs. She's a recipient of the 2016 Ernest Scheller Jr. Award for Service Excellence and the Georgia Tech 2015 Women of Distinction Award.
Professor Toktay served as Associate Editor for M&SOM (2007-2018), POM (2009-2013), and Management Science (2011-2017), and Area Editor (Environment, Energy and Sustainability) for Operations Research (2012-2018). She co-edited the M&SOM Special Issue on the Environment. She was the President of the MSOM Society and VP of Finance of the POM Society. At Georgia Tech, she serves as the Scheller College of Business ADVANCE Professor, a role that is focused on supporting the advancement of women and underrepresented minorities in academia. She is the founding Faculty Director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business and the co-architect and Executive Co-Director of Georgia Tech's Serve.Learn.Sustain Quality Enhancement Plan.
Videos
Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business Short Overview 2016
Earth911 Podcast, Dec. 17, 2018: Georgia Tech's Sustainability Leadership
Creating a Sustainable Community at Georgia Tech - Beril Toktay
Jul 1 Office Hours - CRC Summer 2020
SUSTAINABILITY AT SCHELLER 1080p HD
Drawdown Georgia: Bringing Climate Solutions Home, with Professor Beril Toktay
Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, at the Scheller College of Business
2019 - Beril Toktay - Energy Affordability in Atlanta
Beril Toktay Path Forward - Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Ray Anderson's Legacy at Scheller College of Business
Making the Business Case - CRC Summer 2020
GT Scheller Sustainability Legacy
Serve-Learn-Sustain: How It's Different
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