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(September 23, 2008) "I Want My Daddy's Professorship!" "One can almost always tell when something untoward is about to occur in USM's College of Business...".

(October 2, 2008) Niroomand on the Move . . . in Miles "Farhang Niroomand’s travel exploits continue to reverberate throughout the halls of USM’s College of Business. That he amassed $75,000 in travel expenses over the 59 months...".

(October 14, 2008) “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” "Reports on the summer 2008 United States District Court depositions of various CoB accountants, including Mary Morgan Anderson, revealed quite a bit about the psyche of the CoB and JAG’s first-floor inhabitants...".

(October 16, 2008) Still Going? A Look at New Journal Publications in the CoB "There is little argument with the notion that much of the CoB's former research talent departed since former CoB dean Harold Doty took the reins of the organization back in July of 2003...".

(October 16, 2008) The Face of CoB-GC Continues to Change: More New Faculty Sign Up for Duty The faculty roster down at the CoB’s Gulf Coast operation continues to twist and turn, as more new faculty are set to join in the coming weeks. The list now includes Greg Bradley,..".

(October 20, 2008) Next Comes Hansen "The new year (2009) will usher in yet another change to the CoB’s human resources portfolio. In about 10 weeks the CoB will be welcoming another new assistant professor of marketing in John Hansen,

(October 21, 2008) "Gappy" "This installment in the Special Report series makes use of two of EFIB chairman George Carter's famous phrases. These are 'gappy' and 'in print.',..".

(October 21, 2008) Is Nail Still Sprucing Up Dakhlia’s Seminar Series? A Look Ahead to Future Participants "Various reports here at USMNEWS.net have indicated that EFIB economist Sami Dakhlia’s weekly seminar series is struggling...".

(September 10, 2008) "And the Yankees Trade Jay Buhner for Seattle’s Ken Phelps" "Mention of the July 1988 trade between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners, like in the title of this new series above, is enough to send many New Yorkers over the edge...".

(October 28, 2008) Lucas Ascends to Position Once Held by Carter "Former USM president, Aubrey K. Lucas, was recently appointed to the post of Interim Commissioner of Higher Education, a move that fills the void created after the resignation of former IHL Commissioner Thomas Meredith...".

(October 31, 2008) "Ask not what the CoB can do for you - ask what you can do for the CoB" FINANCE "This report examines the contribution to the CoB’s bottom line of each of the CoB’s finance faculty...".

(September 30, 2008) "What Can You Do?" "Bad trades of one sort or another have seemed to characterize USM’s College of Business since 2003, the year that D. Harold Doty became the organization’s fourth permanent dean...".

(October 15, 2008) Professionalism "Dean Lance Nail said at his faculty meeting that “the College of Business is open for business.” The specific reference was aimed at departments not shutting their doors between 12:00 and 1:00 for lunch;...".

(October 16, 2008) More Lipstick, Same Pig "Dedicated readers will remember some of the cosmetic changes (lipstick) put on the College of Business (the “pig” in question); these have included vanities in the bathrooms in JAG (when it was JGH) and new paper towel dispensers,..".

(October 20, 2008) George Carter & Religion: Another Controversial Decision from the EFIB Chair Rears its Head "Sources tell USMNEWS.net that it has not been that long since EFIB chairman, George Carter, significantly interfered with, via a teaching assignment, ...".

(October 22, 2008) 31st & Pearl Friends Win Benefits The recent story about new CoB Professor of Practice Michael J. Gade highlights a disturbing trend in the CoB’s hiring practices in recent years...".

(October 22, 2008) Carter's Mercenaries: A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail Administration "… This column is Part 3 in a three-part series of opinion pieces that will attempt to explain just how Carter may pull off the coup that some in the CoB are hoping for and others are nervous about. Part 3 is entitled "Carter's Mercenaries" for a reason…". Click here for part 1 and part 2.

(October 27, 2008) Trouble in Paradise? "Here are the teaching schedules for two of George Carter’s favorite economists in EFIB:..".

(October 30, 2008) Doty Now Official Resident of Schlockburg "A recent discovery made by reporters at USMNEWS.net sheds some light on former CoB dean and current CoB management professor D. Harold Doty's current research endeavors...".

(October 30, 2008) A Political Message from Hal Greene "Harold Doty would have you think..."

(October 31, 2008) "Ask not what the CoB can do for you - ask what you can do for the CoB" FINANCE "This report examines the contribution to the CoB’s bottom line of each of the CoB’s economics/international business faculty. The data used for doing so are (1) each faculty’s tuition contribution via his or her fall 2008 SCH production, and (2) each faculty’s fall 2008 salary. ...".

(November 11, 2008) "Shut Up and Drive! ... Again" "With budget freezes and human resource strains at USM only beginning, it seems appropriate to examine which non-administration faculty members at CoB-H are being told by CoB chairs to make the drive to one of the CoB’s Gulf Coast locales...".

(November 13, 2008) CoB Human Resources Update, November 2008 "Former CoB MGT & MKT chair, Barry Babin (shown below), is back on the academic research trail...".

(November 25, 2008) Happy Thanksgiving "Even with the bad national news all around us, CoBers and USMers alike have lots to be thankful for this year. First, in such harsh economic times we are fortunate to have such a budget-conscious president in Martha Saunders. The decision to lease a $2 million airplane is a stroke of genius, especially now...".

(November 18, 2008) Response to Letter to Editor "Dear Dr. _______________,We are planning to request publication information (vitae) from the faculty via usmnews.net to follow up on your suggestion. We were in the process of updating your information and realized ...".

(December 3, 2008) As the Cabal Schemes "As the plotting, planning, scheming, shuffling, and obfuscating continues at a rapid pace in the Economics area in the College of Business,...".

(November 21, 2008 -- Update) "Happy day, Dean Nail. I am going to need $2,200 out of your budget." "... Word has found its way to USMNEWS.net indicating that one of Akbar Marvasti’s two recent submissions to Applied Economics, the recently elevated (from B-level status) A-level journal...".

(November 25, 2008) Letters to the Editor "As expected, USMNEWS.net has received a bit of correspondence about USM's leasing of a Beechcraft twin engine prop plane....".

(December 1, 2008) Jackson Hole: How Ill-Advised Administration Staffing is Stifling the CoB "The recent decision of USM president Martha Saunders to have political scientist Tom Lansford serve as the new dean of academics down at USM-GC is yet another indication of how USM has lost its way...".

(December 8, 2008) Change? "While the world wonders what the promised “Change” really will mean, one of the - presumably - strongest supporters of this change as a liberal Democrat should be Mark Klinedinst...".

(December 12, 2008) Akbeezie - Straight Trippin’ "CoB economics professor Akbar Marvasti has a fan club, and it has set up a page on the popular website facebook for others to view, and perhaps join...".

(December 5, 2008) Seven Questions: Interviews with Current/Former CoB Faculty about Life in and Outside the CoB "This is [part 6] in a series here at USMNEWS.net where current and former CoB profs are interviewed by USMNEWS.net...". Click for more of the Seven Questions Series

(December 11, 2008) The facebook CoB "There is no doubt that the CoB is experiencing a changing of the guard. A new generation of CoB faculty is taking over,...".

(December 2, 2008) 1 Month: An Update to the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Predictions "With only about 30 days remaining in the eligibility period for the 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award, associate professor of MIS Fujun Lai looks to be destined to win the award...".

(December 2, 2008) Henderson Replacement Found . . . Anderson Flying North "It looks as though the CoB has found a replacement for associate professor of accounting, James Henderson, the long-time CoB faculty who is retiring this month (Dec-08)...".

(December 4, 2008 UPDATE) CoB Pathfinders: How Residency Decisions are making the CoB Bush League "The fact that various CoB faculty are living outside the borders of Mississippi is now well known...".

(January 8, 2009) The 2008 USMNEWS.net CoB Person of the Year by Duane Cobb "Although 2008 didn’t bring anywhere near the drama brought by 2007, there were still some interesting stories that developed. ..".

(December 12, 2008) Wittmann’s Nest Getting Bigger "The recent Special Report entitled Dakhlia & Co. Rank MKT Journals pointed out that associate professor of economics Sami Dakhlia and the 2007-08 Journal Ranking Committee (JRC) moved 11 marketing journals ...".

(December 17, 2008) Away Goes Carr "With the close of the fall semester 2008 comes the end of CoB associate professor of management Jon Carr's career at USM. In Jan-09 Carr will become an assistant professor of management at Texas Christian University...".

(January 6, 2009) Is Former CoB TM Chair Tony Henthorne Dean Material? " ... Recently, new evidence was found supporting the claim that Henthorne has indeed been appointed to chair the TCA department at UNLV...".

(January 13, 2009) Has Ed Lost That Lovin’ Feeling? "Ed Nissan was present for the start of classes this semester. It is a wonder that was not picked up by news services...".

(January 12, 2009) How to Improve the CoB in 2009 "Here are some ways to improve the College of Business (CoB) at USM this year without having to spend much money...".

(January 12, 2009) Cost Savings from Closing the Center for Financial Services "Redistribution or elimination of several graduate assistants who do little if anything other than sit in the dead zone known as “The Center” to have the lights on and bodies in it for a few hours a week...".

(January 9, 2009) Coast Cabal Monday Meetings? "There are not many accounting course offerings on the Coast campus. Isn’t it strange that there would be three offered at the same time on the same day?...".

(January 15, 2009) CoB Human Resources Update January, 2009 "This month's issue of CoB Human Resources Update begins with the CoB's accountants, whose research dereliction almost cost the SAIS, and the CoB, accreditation (by the AACSB) in 2007...".

(January 26, 2009) "Former CoBers Lopez & Kozar Breaking Out Again -- From the recent update to the CoB's Brain Drain, Part 2, former CoB marketing faculty Tara Lopez, now an assistant professor of marketing at Southeastern Louisiana University, is back on the research march...".

(January 19, 2009) Stultz Joins CoB's MGT Faculty "According to the USM's Registrar's Office, Forrest General Hospital Vice-President Rob Stultz has joined the CoB's MGT faculty, though this move represents what sources say is a stop-gap measure...".

(January 15, 2009) Steve? "Has Steve Jackson called it a career as Director of SAIS? Instead of teaching any classes in Hattiesburg, he is only teaching on the Coast. ...".

(January 27, 2009) Jackson Lets It All Hang Out - CoB's Current Budget Situation Bad, Very Bad "In a 26-Jan-09 e-mail to SAIS faculty, SAIS director Steven Jackson uncovered what was discussed at a day-long CoB management team meeting from the previous Friday, 23-Jan-09...".

(January 28, 2009) Lake Forgetful's 11, A Look at CoB Google Scholar Cites by Eleventh Best Source

February 2, 2009) Winning the Brandt Award - A Boon or a Curse? "A number of reports have popped up at USMNEWS.net of late setting the stage for the CoB's 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award...".

(December 9, 2008) Among the documents Dr. Anderson tore off a colleague's door (see report below) because she didn't want to answer students' questions was a bill for a month of lobbying services from Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Inc. Our local news media has been asking questions about this issue, too. How is Dr. Anderson handling those questions?

(February 9, 2009) CoB Human Resources Update February, 2009 "A study of more than 2,500 top business scholars worldwide is circulating that indicates that former CoB associate professor of international business Len Trevino sits at...".

(February 10, 2009) Things Stay the Same, Things Stay the Same "Though SAIS director Steven Jackson and accounting professor Roderick Posey may now be touting their Spring/Summer 2008 publication in the Journal of Business & Economic Perspectives, USMNEWS.net has learned that the accomplishment is weakened by factors other than the relative obscurity of the journal itself...".

(February 11, 2009) Name that Former CoBer "The 6-Feb-09 update to the Special Report 'Name-worthy' reminds USMNEWS.net readers that former CoB associate professor of international business Len Trevino is now affiliated with Loyola University in New Orleans...".

(February 11, 2009) CoB UG Programs Committee, Start Your Engines! "With the dire budget/economic situation facing USM, many are now saying that the CoB’s economics major is destined for the chopping block...".

(January 22, 2009) Gettin’ JIBSy with It: A Look at How Bad Management is Hurting the CoB "'Oh, I see you have a JIBS publication. What’s that, a ‘B’? A ‘good B’?' -- Harold Doty, Fall 2003 The epigraph above is truly amazing...".

(January 26, 2009) Time for a Center Swap "The College of Business (CoB) has two Centers: The Center for Financial Services (CFS) and the Center for Economic Education (CEE)....".

(February 3, 2009) 31st & Pearl, A Spoonful of Budget Cuts Helps ECO Go Down "There are '. . . no sacred cows' when it comes to cutting USM's budget, or at least that's what USM provost Robert Lyman told the USM Faculty Senate in late Jan-09...".

(February 12, 2009) EFIB Bites "Pascalau to the 'Great White North' According to information sent to USMNEWS.net, former CoB visiting assistant professor of economics Razvan Pascalau departed USM for what former CoB Harold Doty refers to as the great white north...".

(February 11, 2009) "With all due respect Mr. Gunther . . .," WILLIAM GUNTHER, the BBER, & ECONOMIC STIMULUS "CoB economics professor, and Bureau of Business & Economic Research director William Gunther was interviewed by WDAM-TV, Hattiesburg’s NBC affiliate...".

(February 12, 2009) The Former Dean’s Teaching Load "The CoB has 2 former deans: Bill Gunther and Harold Doty. Both teach only 2 classes per semester...".

(February 12, 2009) Unloaded "Recent reports at USMNEWS.net have examined the number of former CoB faculty who have landed in named colleges of business (and other disciplines) since there departures in or after 2003...".

(February 13, 2009) Is the CoB Becoming the U of Phoenix? A Look at the Mother of All Detrimental Residency Decisions "Revelations over the past few months that more and more CoB faculty are choosing to live outside of Mississippi leave little reason to believe that CoB dean Lance Nail will ever turn the tide in USM's business school...".

(February 16, 2009) Daniel Monchuk 20009, A Look at the New "Commuter Faculty" Trend in the CoB "People often apply the term “commuter school” to institutions whose student populations who not only do not maintain on-campus residencies, in many cases they commute on a daily basis ...".

(February 18, 2009) ECO 336 Moved to File 13 "Reporters at USMNEWS.net have learned that the CoB has voted to replace the requirement that CoB students complete ECO 336 (international economics) as part of the CoB core curriculum...".

(February 24, 2009) Human Resources Bulletin 1st Quarter 2009 "If CoB faculty are wondering just how much harm can be done to the organization's scholarship portfolio from all of the long-distance residency decisions being made by CoB faculty, one only has to look at the research dossiers...".

(February 25, 2009) Harrell Returns to N.O. "Former CoB visiting assistant professor of economics and statistics Adrine Harrell has returned to New Orleans as an assistant professor...".

(February 18, 2009) Tours and Travel - TM is All About Fun Now by Duane Cobb "The recent report on the demise of the CoB’s tourism management program under former CoB dean Harold Doty’s leadership hit the nail on the head...".

(February 23, 2009) Knee-roo-mand "The 14-Jan-09 University of Houston -- Victoria press release announcing the School of Business' new dean, former CoB associate dean Farhang Niroomand, came with a pronunciation guide to the soon-to-be-former-CoBer's surname...".

(February 26, 2009) Hsiao-Fen Yang Back on the Bayou: Former Cob Finance Faculty Now At Louisiana State University "Former CoB visiting assistant professor of finance Hsiao-Fen Yang has moved up to visiting assistant professor of finance at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge...".

(March 2, 2009) Former CoB Fish in Other Ponds: The Best Jobs Landed By Doty Era Former Cob Faculty

(March 3, 2009) Hook 'Em Home Add Deniz Gevrek to the Mix of Long Distance CoBers "The recent run of USMNEWS.net reports showing how more and more CoB faculty are choosing to maintain residences outside of Mississippi is not showing any signs of slowing at present...".

(March 4, 2009) LSU’s Hughes a Finalist to Head ACC "Reports have reached USMNEWS.net offices indicating that LSU accountant Kirby “Skip” E. Hughes II has been named a finalist to chair the CoB’s new ACC department, which will begin operations in July-09....".

(February 27, 2009) 31st & Pearl, Intellectual Vacuum, or Just Plain Vacuum? "In its leadoff to last night’s (24-Feb-09) State of the Union speech, ABC-TV cut to its two Georges - Stephanopoulos and Will - for a quick message...".

(March 6, 2009) Sorry Lot: An Investigative Report on CoB Attendance on the Council of Chairs "Our earlier Special Report entitled Too Cool for School focused on the administrative service dereliction of EFIB chairman George Carter...".

(March 9, 2009) “If We Believe It . . . They Will Come” Why Dean Lance Nail Needs to Get William Gunther Out of the Public Eye "USM constituents are all too familiar with professor William Gunther’s role in USM’s CoB...".

(March 10, 2009) Checking on the Harvest: A Look at the Latest Crop in the CoB Faculty Farm System "The practice of sending favored CoB undergraduate and graduate students off the get PhDs so that they can return to USM to serve as b-school faculty is an old one...".

(March 12, 2009)“Each Year . . .”? That’s What Elizabeth LaFleur Said "On 10-Mar-09 CoB-GC marketing professor Elizabeth LaFleur had an e-mail delivered to CoB ...".

(March 3, 2009) Evaluations and Standards "Will the first annual evaluations in the Lance Nail era be any different than in the past?...".

(March 4, 2009) Two Months On "Two months ago, Dean Nail named Gwen Pate and Ken Zantow to be new Assistant Deans in the CoB. From reports set to and gathered by usmnews.net, here is a status report:...".

(March 12, 2009) CoB Interviews Reidenbach for MKT Chair Opening "Reports have reached USMNEWS.net offices indicating that current CoB administrators and faculty have interviewed finalist Eric Reidenbach for the opening in the chair’s position of the CoB’s marketing department...".

(March 6, 2009) How far apart are John Clark and Larry Eustachy? How Coach E’s Decision to give $25,000 back to USM Puts a Gulf between the Two "Last week (the last week of Feb-09) USM men’s basketball coach Larry Eustachy decided to return to USM the $25,000 in bonus money...".

(March 13, 2009) Sweatin’ to the Oldies: More on CFO Joe Morgan’s Plan to Save on Utility Bills "As USM faculty and staff have known since last month’s Town Meeting, USM president Martha Saunders has called on USM’s administrative offices to be closed during the week of ...".

(August 20, 2010) Say Anything "The message from the Lance Nail administration about the new “national ranking” for the CoB shows the lengths that 21st Century university administrators will go to convince the public that something positive is being done with their tax dollars. The idea that U.S. News & World Report has the CoB ranked at 215th among 368 U.S. b-schools is more humorous than noteworthy. The reality is - and one had to read the marginal comments ...".