Whether he's looking at the impact of hurricanes on Florida orange growers or how foreign exchange rates can strangle a global supply chain, Associate Professor Burak Kazaz's aim as a researcher is to bring to the business community new perspectives on managing uncertainty. With research interests include pricing, production, and distribution planning under uncertainty, particularly supply, demand, and exchange-rate uncertainty, Kazaz is motivated by a desire to help companies plan for uncertainty in periods of supply and demand risk.

Kazaz is a member of INFORMS and POMS and is an associate/area editor for IIE Transactions and Flexible Services & Manufacturing. Two of his most recent publications include, "Production Policies Under Deteriorating Process Conditions," co-authored with T. Sloan in the March 2008 issue of IIE Transactions, and "Global Production Planning Under Exchange-Rate Uncertainty," co-authored with M. Dada and H. Moskowitz in Management Science.