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(August 29, 2006) Black to Fade "When he’s not telling faculty and administrators at other universities that he’s done more to establish a research culture in the CoB than any prior Dean, current Dean Harold Doty is ripping through the last vestiges of Black’s hard work like a man on a mission. Since Doty’s arrival in 2003, the CoB has experienced a “letter of agreement” promotion to full, a fourth year review, and a number of other untoward movements that have detracted from the base Black built throughout the 1990s.

(November 3, 2006) You Say You've Got Two? Then You're AQ! "The CoB is still a few days away from defining what makes one Academically or Professionally Qualified. From what we hear, two publications over five years will make one AQ for 2007 AACSB reaffirmation. Things have come along way over the past decade - AQ is down 33% from the mid-1990s. So much for Dean Harold Doty's plan to ramp up scholarly activity in the CoB. "Black to Fade" is now complete...".

(December 7, 2006) Plagiarism in the CoB? On November 10, 2006, a document entitled “Guidelines for Participating and Supporting Faculty” was circulated throughout the CoB via email. The following screenshot displays that email that was sent to all CoB faculty by Melia Hartsfield:

(January 8, 2007) 31st & Pearl Doty’s Legacy, and Gall CoB Dean Harold Doty has gall. He has the gall to stand in front of CoB faculty, as he did in December of 2006, and critically remark that former CBA Dean Joseph Greene’s standard for raises was “who had the children last.” It takes gall to make such a statement when one’s own standard seems to be “who has the biggest mortgage” or “who has the most expensive lifestyle.” Doty’s CoB is far from a meritocracy. In fact, Greene’s college may have been more like a meritocracy than Doty’s, now that USM has ushered in the research focus that was not part of Greene’s world.

(March 26, 2007) Operation: Research Rewind Part 1 It’s the mid- to late-1980s in the College of Business Administration at the University of Southern Mississippi. With former Dean Joseph Greene’s retirement and subsequent replacement by Ty Black, the vision for the CBA was one filled with research and an improved regional and national image.

(April 16, 2007) The CoB Dopplegänger Matrix How Proximity and Influence are Intertwined in USM’s College of Business With 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.