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(July 7, 2008) CoB News, 7 July 2008 Tang Hits JIBS; CoB Stuck with Lambert USMNEWS.net reporters have learned that former CoB international business prof, Linghui Tang, recently hit the top journal in international business -- the Journal of International Business Studies. Tang, now with the College of New Jersey, handled the CoB's IB duties until the end of the 2005-06 academic year. At that time the CoB hired John Lambert as a visiting assistant professor of IB. Before Tang joined the CoB, USM's IB program was in the hands of former associate professor of IB, Len Trevino, who is now at Washington State University. Trevino exited Hattiesburg after the 2003-04 academic year.

(July 11, 2008) CoB News, 11 July 2008 EFIB's Lesser Publicized Faculty Losses A recent check for updates to the recurring report, The CoB's Brain Drain, 2003-Present, revealed that the CoB's Economics, Finance & International Business Department has lost more (since 2003) than is usually publicized. Two relatively unmentioned faculty who exited the EFIB since 2003 -- Shahdad Naghshpour and Laurence Eisenberg -- now appear to be thriving in new environments. In Naghshpour's case, that new environment is USM's own economic/international development unit, which is housed in the College of Arts & Letters (CoAL). And, since leaving the CoB during the 2004-05 academic year, Naghshpour's research production has really taken off.

(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) 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.

(August 12, 2008) CoB News, 12 August 2008 CoB-GC Welcomes Lunsford, Wolf and Collins With the beginning of fall semester 2008 nearing, the CoB's Gulf Coast operation is welcoming a few new faculty. Three of these are Dale Lunsford (MIS), Marco Wolf (MKT) and Brian Collins (MGT).