When it comes to learning and education there is nothing like hearing from front-line expert practitioners. When the topics to be covere...

Last night I flew back to Gothenburg, Sweden from Vienna, Austria (through Munich). In Vienna, I had the distinct pleasure of teaching an in...

In my previous post, I wrote about how to construct a great model with insights from Dr. Hal Varian , the Chief Economist of Google, who ha...

I do like it when a journals and publishers are proactive and innovative. It also feels good, as a researcher, that the papers that you wr...

Our paper, Supply Chain Network Operations Management of a Blood Banking System with Cost and Risk Minimization , Anna Nagurney, Amir H. Mas...

In my previous post, I pointed to a guest lecture on Disaster Communications , given in my Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare class at th...

For many months now, we have been researching health care supply chains, with a focus on perishable products ranging from blood supply chain...

I was struck by the recent death of Dr. Bernadine P. Healy, who not only was the first female head of the National Institutes of Health (NI...

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has issued a nice press release on our research on blood supply chains. It is really exciting whe...

Problems to research are all around us -- now more than ever. All that one has to do to identify the important and interesting problems in...

My doctoral student, Amir Masoumi, and I have been deeply researching blood supply chains, a supply chain of a highly perishable product, wi...

Interestingly, health care facilities in the United States are second only to the food industry in producing waste, generating more than 6,...

Blood is a life-saving "product" and, at the same time, it is highly perishable. Its delivery is also time-sensitive. In addition,...

Freight as the Weakest Link in the Chain was the title of my blogpost the other day and I see that today's New York Times has an arti...