Applications Opening for 2022 Hakan Orbay Research Award

Applications for the 2022 Hakan Orbay Research Award, which has been presented since 2013 by Sabancı Business School to keep the memory of Hakan Orbay alive, will be open on Monday, March 28.

The aim of this annual award is to encourage young researchers to undertake original research in finance and microeconomics.

Awards in 2 different categories as “Young Researcher” and “PhD Student” will be presented this year.

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About Hakan Orbay

After graduating from Ankara Science High School in 1979, Hakan Orbay received his undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University in 1983. He obtained his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Calgary University and subsequently returned to Turkey to work in the Information Technology area of the banking sector between1988-1991. He kept close links with academia during those years and eventually went to the U.S. for his doctoral studies in 1991. After obtaining a PhD in Economics from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, he worked as a faculty member at Koc University until 1999. Next, he joined the Sabancı School of Management during its establishment years and worked there as a faculty member until his untimely death in 2011. Hakan Orbay produced original research in microeconomics and finance and made important contributions to the establishment and development of the Sabancı School of Management, Istanbul, Turkey.