The summer is more than half over and, before we know it, it will be September, and students will be converging from different parts of the globe to institutions of higher education in the United States
It has been a very intense summer, since I spent all of June at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and have been working on some big writing projects.
Various campuses in Amherst, Massachusetts from UMass Amherst to Amherst College and Hampshire College are different in the summer than during the academic year, with special programs and activities, and relative peace and quiet.
It is always great to hear from former students and this summer has been no exception.
I have had the pleasure of a visit from a former MBA student of mine, who is now an executive in the automobile industry, who even treated my family to dinner but, most importantly, the face-to face conversations and the laughter, I will long remember.
Plus, I have received many emails from former undergrad students asking whether I could get together for coffee with them (they will do the traveling) since they are seeking some advice as to graduate school options and/or just want to share their experiences in industry with me.
Others have simply reconnected and updated me as to their professional successes.
Prospective students have also been in touch so I enjoy discussing the strengths of and opportunities at the Isenberg School of Management and, of course, the programs that are especially dear to me -- from our undergraduate Operations Management program, which has recently been renamed "Operations and Information Management," to the doctoral program in Management Science.
A former doctoral student, who is now a "Dr.", having received her PhD, has, in turn, flown off to the West Coast to assume her new position as an Assistant Professor and it is great to hear from her as she settles in to her new life in a great location.
Nothing gives a professor greater satisfaction than seeing her former students achieve and do so well!
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
Fragile Networks: Identifying Vunerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World
Supply Chain Network Economics
Sustainable Transportation Networks
Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age
Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks
Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision Making and Policy Analysis
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Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach
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