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(April 22, 2008) CoB News, 22 April 2008 "Is Niroomand Out as Editor of the JCRGB? Many reports here at USMNEWS.NET have focused on former CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand's editorship of the Journal of Current Research in Global Business, a journal of dubious quality that is part of the Association for Global Business...".
(April 28, 2008) 31st & Pearl What is MISsing Here? "So, MIS professor, Donna Davis, wants to bring former CoB assistant professor of MIS, Dale Lunsford, now at High Point University, back. I get that...".
(April 25, 2008) From the Ghost of Christmas Future "SMU business. Dean's Message...".
(May 8, 2008) Too Busy To Blog? "...The President’s calendar must be frightfully full to starve her reading public on news of teas, alumni news, and other social gatherings...".
(May 9, 2008) Once Upon a Time A Look at the Shadow Race for the 2009 "Louis K. Brandt Award by Duane Cobb USMNEWS.NET’s new series about the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award contest has me thinking about what could’ve been....".
(May 8, 2008) 31st & Pearl, CoB - Bushardt = CoB "If you’ve been following reports here at USMNEWS.NET then you know by now that long-time CoB management professor, Stephen Bushardt, will be leaving USM after 30-June-08...".
(May 19, 2008) Is Glascoff Bolting for Spring Hill College? "Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have been told that CoB visiting professor of marketing, David Glascoff, is leaving USM...".
(May 19, 2008) CoB News, 19 May 2008 "Nail 'In-House' According to Jana Bryant's 16-May-08 presser announcing USM's hiring of Lance Nail as the CoB's choice to succeed Harold Doty as the College's fifth permanent dean, Nail is currently the managing editor of the International Review of Financial Analysis...".
(May 20, 2008) Home Sweet Home for CoB Dean's Seat: How Lance Nail's Addition to the CoB Alters the FIN Research Portfolio "Long-time EFIBers George Carter (chair), Farhang Niroomand (former associate dean), William Gunther (former dean), and ...".
(May 21, 2008) Williams Introduced at USA Before CoB Retirement Galas "It seems that Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams' 9-May-08 retirement reception at USM was upstaged by a 23-April-08 presser put out by the University of South Alabama...".
(May 14, 2008) Lost & Found by Duane Cobb "Without a doubt, the CoB's faculty turnover rate since former CoB Dean Harold Doty's arrival in 2003 has risen to historically high levels...".
(May 13, 2008) "Dear USM News, I appreciate in advance your willingness to post a concern about the recent push to "outsource" USM's physical plant operations. ...".
(May 22, 2008) Do CoB Faculty Need Shoulders? "The new USMNEWS.NET series, "Carrying HoDo . . .," has been a popular one among our readers. This report follows the lead of that series by analyzing the quality of the solo-authored research of CoB's 47 faculty...".
(May 30, 2008) Back to pickaprof-Dom “As long-time readers are aware, from time to time USMNEWS.NET reporters visit the data available at pickaprof in order to gauge the quality of instruction across the faculty in the Southern Miss CoB…”.
(June 3, 2008) Back to RATEMYPROFESORS-Dom "As long-time readers are aware, from time to time USMNEWS.NET reporters visit the data available at RATEMYPROFESSORS in order to gauge the quality of instruction across the faculty in the Southern Miss CoB...".
(May 22, 2008) There's No Denying It, They Were All There by Duane Cobb "The opinion that the 2002-07 USM Presidency of Shelby F. Thames was an unmitigated disaster is one that is widely held...".
(May 23, 2008) Classic CoB Mismanagement: Why Carter's "Literature Presence" is Bad, Yet Once Allowed, How it Could've Been Beneficial "As far back as the summer of 2006 USMNEWS.NET (formerly USMPRIDE.COM) has been reporting on George Carter's nebulous "literature presence" faculty evaluation metric...".
(May 23, 2008) Witness Rolls Over on Possible Carter Plot to Sack Klinedinst "Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have just obtained a testimonial from a witness indicating that current EFIB Chair, George Carter, may have initiated a 2004-05 plot,...".
(May 29, 2008) Instructors "Instructors can serve many uses in academic departments. The CoB traditionally loved instructors...".
(May 27, 2008) It’s Goodbye Time Again "The summer semester is here again at USM. The first summer session collects all imminent retirees for one last boost to the retirement income...".
(May 30, 2008) CoB News, 30 May 2008 "Who Will Answer the Summer 2008 Preview Call?...".
(UPDATE May 29, 2008) Is TM's Research Quality Only Skin Deep? "A number of readers were surprised to learn how highly ranked Tourism Management faculty Cherylynn Becker and Catherin Price are in the various Google Scholar cites reports here at USMNEWS.NET...".
(May 29, 2008) 2007-2008 CoB Awards "Another academic year draws to a close, it is time to look back and salute some of the CoB faculty members would will not otherwise get their just rewards. The following is a list of the major awards:...".
(June 3, 2008) Consistently Good, Consistently Bad "In this Special Report, we integrate the results from the two separate recent reports...".
(June 4, 2008) CoB News, 4 June 2008 "Doty Gone Wild? According to a USMNEWS.NET source, CoB management professor Harold Doty recently e-mailed CoB students enrolled in a section of MGT 400 ...".
(May 30, 2008) Reader's Response: CoB Reorganization "Many CoB faculty expect new dean, Lance Nail, to complete a reorganization of the college during his first few months on the job. In that spirit, a USMNEWS.NET reader has sent in an interesting reorganization plan for the CoB:...".
(June 9, 2008) No More Worries: A 2008-09 Course Scheduling Guide for Floundering CoB Students "One only has to visit the first floor corridors of Joseph Greene Hall, home of USM's College of Business, just days prior to the beginning of a new semester to see...".
(June 11, 2008) CoB Admin Discovered, Made Use of New AACSB Provisions "Reporters at USMNEWS.NET have learned that during the CoB’s 2007 AACSB Maintenance of Accreditation process, CoB administrators exploited a new AACSB provision...".
(June 11, 2008) CoB News, 11 June 2008 "Martha, is that You? Valerie Wells' 8-June-08 story for The Hattiesburg American, entitled 'Saunders feels at home,' revealed...".
(June 4, 2008) CoB Flashback: May 7, 2003 "In May of 2003 USM's business school was known as the 'College of Business and Economic Development.'...".
(June 10, 2008) Slipstreaming Away: Another Look at John Clark's Marketing Research "Within-field slipstreaming, or drafting, is becoming more and more of a problem for CoB administrators with the 2003-present mass exodus of quality CoB faculty,..".
(June 3, 2008) CoB Reorganization - Another Reader Responds "In response to a reader’s suggestions for the believed to be coming reorganization, consider these alternatives:...".
(June 16, 2008) CoB News, 16 June 2008 Williams Takes it on the Chen "A number of reports here at USMNEWS.NET have stated that Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams joined Interim SAIS Director Steve Jackson and various SAIS faculty,...".
(June 17, 2008) CoB News, 17 June 2008 Are Gunther's THA Reports also Academic Publications? "CoB faculty must be wondering whether Bill Gunther's columns in The Hattiesburg American, such as the one on 15-June-08 about employment measures....".
(June 17, 2008) Dakhlia & Co. Rank MKT Journals "The work of untenured assistant professor of economics, Sami Dakhlia, the chair of the CoB's journal ranking committee, and company is now complete...".
(June 13, 2008) 31st & Pearl, Memo to Nail: Avoid Doty "Now that Lance Nail has accepted USM President Martha Saunders' invitation to succeed D. Harold Doty as USM's fifth business school dean, he should know ...".
(June 24, 2008) Don’t Worry, Be Happy "The surviving cast from the Doty deanship plague is hoping to be happy under new Dean Lance Nail. That would be a nice change...".
(July 9, 2008) Me First! "Old George must have the adrenaline and venom rushing through his veins. He has been working hard to be the first, and an all too regular, visitor of the new dean...".
(July 16, 2008) "egonomics" by David Marcum and Steven Smith (2007) Two Lessons for the CoB: Lesson 2 "Egonomics is an interesting book. Many of the quotes praising it suggest it as a book that should be required for all MBA students…". See also, Lesson 1
(July 22, 2008) "Dear USM News, I read the warning posed by one of your readers regarding course assignments, research interests, and faculty politics...".
(August 5, 2008) Could Tyrone Black Rebuild the CoB? "Long-time readers of USMNEWS.net probably think that my answer to the question posed by the title of this column is ...".
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