GEORGE C. CARTER, FORMER CHAIRMAN, FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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(April 16, 2007) The CoB Dopplegänger Matrix How Proximity and Influence are Intertwined in USM’s College of
BusinessWith the “resignations” of CoB Dean D. Harold Doty and his Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand, CoB
sycophants and “dopplegängers” (Bedeian, 2002) were scrambling around Joseph Greene Hall like Christmas
shoppers at 8:00am on Black Friday. From professor of management David Duhon to visiting assistant professor of
international business John Lambert, the “yes men” were in self-preservation overdrive, feverishly working the
water cooler conversations trying to ascertain where their future fortunes rested.
(April 16, 2007) EFIB News, April 2007 A number of news items have been coming out of the EFIB Department in
recent days. Of course, one of them is the "resignation" of Farhang Niroomand as Associate Dean of the CoB.
Niroomand (see below), also a professor of economics, cited several reasons for leaving the AD post, such as health
concerns, his desire to get back into the classroom full-time, and the lack of attention he has paid to his journal, the
Journal of Current Research in Global Business, in recent weeks and months.
(April 22, 2007) Was George Carter Disingenuous with the Media? An Examination of Carter’s 12 April 2007
Comments to The Student Printz It’s been quite some time, if ever, since the CoB has experienced a week like that
of April 9-13, 2007. On 9 April 2007, CoB faculty and staff received an afternoon e-mail informing them that USM
Provost Jay Grimes would be meeting with all CoB faculty and staff at 12:30pm on 10 April 2007. The e-mail did not
even hint at the official agenda of the meeting. Then, on the morning of 10 April, CoB Public Relations Manager Jan
May e-mailed all CoB faculty and staff with the news that the USM Human Resources Department had confirmed
that CoB Dean Harold Doty and CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand had resigned their administrative
positions in the CoB and they would be going to full-time instruction duties beginning fall 2007.
(April 24, 2007) On Nissan's Back Another week, another faculty is leaving the EFIB. This one comes in the form of
Stephen Haggard, assistant professor of finance, who is departing for Missouri State University. With every
departure that goes by, more and more of the maintenance of the EFIB's research reputation falls in the hands of
George Carter, Farhang Niroomand, and Edward Nissan. Of course, given the workload assignments associated
with co-authorships among this group-of-three, more and more of that maintenance will fall on Nissan's back.