SAMI DAKHLIA, FORMER ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
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(November 6, 2007) Special Report How Would You Like Your “A”? A Look at What the Sawyer-Carter P&T Evaluations Say As the 2007-08 P&T season’s dossiers circulate further into the corridors of the CoB, word is spreading about what former EFIB economist, Charles Sawyer, and current EFIB Chair, George Carter, are saying about the research credentials of two of the EFIB’s P&T candidates – Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti. In both sets of evaluations – Sawyer’s “external review” of Marvasti, and Carter’s “independent, professional judgments” of both Dakhlia and Marvasti – the duo of Sawyer and Carter attempt to make the case that most academics in economics never publish in an “A” journal. As such, Sawyer and Carter claim that by having 3 “As” and 2 “As,” respectively, Dakhlia and Marvasti are truly unique characters on the academic landscape, at least among academic economists.
(November 15, 2007) Dear usmnews.net, I have seen that Jon Carr's recent publication in The Academy of Management Journal is prominently displayed now in the Greene Hall publication case. That is an outstanding accomplishment for Jon and for the College. What I would like know, and I am sure something other business faculty want to know, is why such a distinction earned Jon only the sixth biggest merit raise (2007) in the whole College. Not one of the people in front of Jon (Mike Wittmann, Sami Dakhlia, Akbar Marvasti, Alvin Williams and John Clark) deserve anything close to the raise that Jon should have gotten this year. The fact that they all got more than he did is terrible.
(November 19, 2007) 31st & Pearl On the Folly of Rewarding Dakhlia for Osmonbekov's Successes The recent letter to the editor of usmnews.net about Jon Carr's raise highlights the problematic structure of the CoB's 2007 "merit" raises. Carr's recent publication in The Academy of Management Journal brought "merit" in buckets, only his fifth-largest raise fell short of what was expected by all. These days it seems that being either John Clark, Michael Wittmann, Sami Dakhlia, Akbar Marvasti, or Mary Anderson is a necessary, and perhaps sufficient, condition for success, at least of the financial sort, in the CoB.
(November 19, 2007) How the EFIB's "Quick-Strike Promotion & Raise" Program Works Much has been written about the EFIB's so-called "Quick-Strike Promotion and Raise" program. It is perhaps best explained by the following anecdote. According to sources, in his 2007 P&T support letters for Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti, EFIB Chairman George Carter stated that Dakhlia and Marvasti were hired at lower ranks because the salary lines lacked the funding necessary to bring them in at more appropriate ranks, such as associate and full professor. (Carter's pointed his finger at various USM administrators for the employment line shortfall.) Thus, these two new hires were brought in at lower ranks and put into "the . . . program."