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(July 29, 2008) Special Report New Faces in the CoB, 2008-09 An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Credentials A few new faculty are joining the CoB at the beginning of the 2008-09 academic year, and this report takes a look at some of them. Those covered in this report are listed below in Table 1.

(August 1, 2008) CoB News, 1 August 2008 What Beef does Carter have with Laatsch? A recent installment in the Special Report series here at USMNEWS.net touched upon the fall 2008 teaching schedule that EFIB chair George Carter delivered to new finance professor Francis Laatsch. As that report indicated, Laatsch will be teaching one section of FIN 300, one section of FIN 310 and one section of REI 340 in his inaugural semester in the CoB. Sources indicate that this schedule seems "out of bounds," and it is in no way congruent to the treatment that Carter has extended to other new EFIB faculty. In particular, it does not match Carter's treatment of economist Akbar Marvasti, whose academic career began around 1985, and who joined the CoB in August of 2006, more than 20 years after beginning his academic career.

(August 7, 2008) MADMEN A Look Back at the Marketing Empire that Almost Was by Duane Cobb All of the discussion around USMNEWS.net about "the greatest ever" scholars in each of the CoB's units raised some interesting conclusions. One of these is that the CoB's marketing unit peaked higher than any other unit in CoB history, thanks largely to the leadership of former College of Business Administration dean, Tyrone Black. During the mid-1980s and into the mid- to late-1990s, Black put together a marketing faculty group with such powerhouses that the new award-winning AMC television series Mad Men, a drama about a group of high-powered ad executives, is almost more reminiscent of the CoB's marketing faculty team of the late 1980s and early 1990s than it is of the 1960s big city ad agency.

(August 7, 2008) A Taste of How the CoB Works: Journal Classification One of the things USMNEWS.net has done over the past few years is to show just how politics in the CoB shapes just about everything that is done there. There is no better venue for doing that than the CoB's recent effort to classifiy journals across the various business disciplines. Politics affected that 2007-08 process from the jump. First, the CoB was being administered by an interim dean, Alvin Williams. Williams is certainly not known as a top-notch researcher, even by CoB standards. Thus, 2007-08 was not the proper time to re-classify business journals at USM.

(August 7, 2008) Reporters Right On Ranking "the Greatest Ever" Scholars in the CoB by Duane Cobb When it comes to ranking "the greatest ever" scholars in CoB history, almost all of the work has already been done. The reporters who produced "the greatest ever" series for USMNEWS.net did a good job of making a case for the three top scholars who worked in USM's business school at one time or another. That case was so good that the only thing left for me to do was choose the "Close Call" recipient, whose name will appear later in this essay.