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Artificial IntelligencePoliticsStrategyTechnology

What Should Türkiye Do in AI?

Under what conditions will Türkiye use AI, in which layers will it remain externally dependent, and who will retain control in critical domains? Türkiye’s primary objective should be to establish a sovereign usage regime, especially for priority and regulated sectors and for state institutions. Türkiye is […]
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on Mar 16
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What Is Russia Doing in the AI Race?

How is Russia trying to build a domestic GenAI order under sanctions, supply vulnerability, and limited external access? The picture that has emerged suggests that Russia is constructing an AI system clustered around a few national champions, prioritizing the Russian language, and deeply intertwined with the […]
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on Mar 16
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What Will Europe Do in the AI Race?

It does not seem very likely that Europe will follow a path in the AI race that directly imitates the United States. The reason is not only the difference in scale in capital and cloud infrastructure. Europe’s institutional structure, regulatory tradition, and industrial base will also […]
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on Mar 16
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How Is China Affecting the AI Race?

At the most basic level, large language models are probabilistic systems trained on massive text corpora. They learn the patterns among words and symbols, and then generate the sequence of words that is most appropriate for a given context. This is, broadly speaking, how systems such […]
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on Mar 15
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Lower Training Costs Break the AI Monopoly?

One of the main causes of concentration in large language model training is access to advanced GPUs. Recently, however, especially through DeepSeek, Chinese companies have drawn attention with claims that they can train capable models at lower cost. So how real is China’s low-cost AI claim? […]
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on Mar 15
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What Lies at the Heart of the AI Monopoly?

To understand the concentration forming around large language models, it is not enough to look only at model quality. What produces monopoly power is who has access to the computational infrastructure needed to train these models. At the most basic level, the ability to train large […]
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on Mar 15
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Teaching Cases

I have written a number of case studies with my colleagues. I am also planning to develop more multimedia cases about startups. You can find them here. If you think your case is interesting and includes learning objectives , please contact me.

iGaranti: Expanding the frontiers of mobile banking innovation

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TazeDirekt.com: Branding charm or operational basics?

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Diageo in Turkey: The Lion’s Milk vs. global spirits 

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Arçelik developing a digital twin with Simularge

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Graduate Alum

I am proud of my graduate alum. You can find and follow them here with the title of
their dissertations or theses.

Ph.D. Dissertations

Merve Güngördü-Arıoğlu

Lecturer, Istanbul Bilgi University

Ph.D. (2025)

Hybrids in making: Developing a processual perspective on hybridization of organizations

Yunis İsmayil

Director, İTÜ ARI Teknokent

Ph.D. (2023)

New ventures’ nonmarket strategies in nascent and mature industries

Uğur Yetkin

Lecturer, Kadir Has University

Ph.D. (2022)

Refugee entrepreneurship and the limits of inclusion: A study of Syrian refugee entrepreneurs’ embeddedness in Turkey

Berker Köktener

Director, KPMG Global 

Ph.D. (2022)

Professional service conglomerates and jurisdictional competition: Influences of digital technologies and regulations

Kutay Güneştepe

Assistant Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University

Ph.D. (2019)

Materiality in doing: Sociomaterial practices and power mechanisms in institutional change

Masters Theses

Tuğçe Gültekin Atlı

Product Leader, Getir

M.A. Business Administration (2025)

Unintended consequences of generative AI in product ideation: A product management perspective

Shadi Rashvand

Expert

M.A. Business Administration (2025)

Sustainability reporting and operational excellence: waste management in global apparel companies originated from three countries

Furkan Eravcı

Coordinator, Siemens Healthineers

M.A. Business Administration (2021)

Unicorns of the same feather: Developing a typology of very high-valued private companies and their origin countries

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