Zeynep Ton is a visiting assistant professor in the operations management group at MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously spent seven years on the faculty at Harvard Business School, where she was awarded the HBS Faculty Teaching Award for teaching excellence.
Since 2002, Zeynep has been teaching MBA and executive education courses in operations management, supply chain management, service operations, and operations strategy.
Zeynep’s research has been published in managerial and scholarly journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and Organization Science. She has written numerous Harvard Business School cases about retailers both in the U.S. (e.g., Borders, Home Depot, QuikTrip) and abroad (e.g., Zara, Metro, Mercadona).
Zeynep was recently named one of the World’s 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants. She was also featured by CNNMoney as one of eight young business school professors on the rise. She is a member of the Network of Executive Women in Consumer Products and Retail.
Zeynep lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and three children. A native of Turkey, she first came to the U.S. on a volleyball scholarship from the Pennsylvania State University. She received her B.S. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and her D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
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