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 23, 2007) Special Report Shared Governance, Carter Style An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain It what sources tell usmnews.net came out of nowhere, the following e-mail was distributed to EFIB faculty by EFIB Chair George Carter on 17 April 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.