JOHN CLARK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF FINANCE

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(November 4, 2008) Clark to Chair FRELS? A Look at What “Yes” Might Mean for Other Parts of the CoB It is an understatement to say that the prospect of having to spend $900,000 per year using external personnel to staff the chairperson’s office of each of the six new CoB departments in new CoB dean Lance Nail’s 2008 reorganization plan is daunting. Because of the financial strains faced by Mississippi, such a plan is DOA to say the least. That means that Nail and his associate dean Joseph Peyrefitte are going to have look inside the CoB to find leaders for these divisions, and that possibility has a number of CoBers concerned, and possibly rightly so given the recent report indicating that MIS professor Donna Davis will likely become the inaugural chair of Business, Economics and Management Information Systems (BEMIS).
(December 9, 2008) CoB News, 9 December 2008 Clark's Role? One has to wonder just how involved CoB associate professor of finance John Clark is with the scandals involving the USM Foundation that have plagued USM in recent months, particularly the planegate episode. As Director of the CoB’s Center for Financial Services, Clark often works closely with officials at the Foundation. As such, Clark may well have played a role in the Foundation’s purchase of the Beechcraft King Air 200 airplane that the Foundation will be leasing to USM.
(December 26, 2008) New Year's Resolutions
(January 8, 2009) Cost Savings from Closing the Center for Financial Services
(January 8, 2009) A 31st & Pearl Special Series The Clark Standard A Look at How the CoB is Governed by Exceptions, not Rules CoB associate professor of finance John Clark was hired by the CoB in 2003, after a tenure-track run at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He was hired as an assistant professor, and as part of his duties Clark was to direct the CoB's Center for Financial Services, an empire built by Clark's predecessor Michael Melton.
(March 2, 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 that he has earned over the course of the 2008-09 basketball season.
(March 10, 2009) Will John Clark Go as Far as Paris this Year? On “Senior Night” in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma women’s basketball star Courtney Paris told the home crowd (see below) that the OU Sooners would win the 2009 NCAA Championship. She didn’t stop there. Paris said that if the 3rd-ranked Sooners failed to bring home the title she would repay OU the cost of her basketball scholarship, which is estimated to be $64,000.
(March 25, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues Unique A-Level Hits of Current & Former CoB Faculty – Finance