The Boston Globe has a wonderful article on Vladimir Ducasse, a UMass Amherst football lineman, who is trying out on the Gulf Coast for the Senior Bowl with dreams of being selected by the National Football League (NFL). The article traces the history of this star athlete and discusses his focus and discipline in light of the earthquake and devastation in his birthplace, Haiti.
The article notes that Ducasse selected UMass Amherst, first and foremost, for its academics, and, next, for its athletics -- football. It talks about the trust that he has earned and his love and respect for the coaches as well as his abilities to concentrate on the tasks before him, given the immense distractions of the events in his home country.
We wish Vladimir Ducasse as well as his countrymen all the best as they begin to rebuild and reconstruct Haiti.
About Me
- Dr. Anna Nagurney
- Dr. Anna Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was appointed to this chaired professorship on April 14, 2021. Prior to this chaired professorship, since 1998, she was the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management. She was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College at Oxford University for the 2016 Trinity term. She was a Visiting Professor at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden for 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Her latest book is: Labor and Supply Chain Networks, published by Springer in 2023. Her other recent book, co-edited with I. Kotsireas, P.M. Pardalos, and A. Tsokas, is: Dynamics of Disasters: Impact, Risk, Resilience, and Solutions, and was published by Springer in 2021. She is also the co-author of the book: Competing on Supply Chain Quality: A Network Economics Perspective, with D. Li, and published in 2016. She is the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, which she established in 2001.
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Competing on Supply Chain Quality
Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products
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Sustainable Transportation Networks
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