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(June 24, 2008) CoB News, 24 June 2008 Dakhlia Can Deliver, But He Needs Some Help From his perch atop the CoB's 2007-08 journal ranking committee, Sami Dakhlia brought home the goods for a number of EFIB faculty. Recent installments in USMNEWS.NET's Special Report series showed that George Carter (EFIB Chairman), Akbar Marvasti, Edward Nissan, Farhang Niroomand, John Clark, Matthew Hood, and Farooq Malik all had their research portfolios improved by upgrades that were applied to various economics, finance and other journals by the journal ranking team. The number of A- and B-level publications produced by this group, along with Dakhlia himself, rose dramatically from the work done by Dakhlia & Co.

(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 15, 2008) Syllabust! Dr. D, Neverland and the Case of the Missing Graduate Program "Reading it, it's as if [Sami] Dakhlia is telling his students that he thinks he's smart, and by the end of the semester they will think so as well." Anonymous For USMNEWS.net readers who have not had the fortune to peruse the course syllabus for CoB economist Sami Dakhlia.s fall 2008 section of ECO 340 (Intermediate Microeconomic Theory), it has been inserted at the end of this report. Sources describe it as a real piece of work, and they believe that USMNEWS.net readers will think so as well.

(September 10, 2008)“And the Yankees Trade Jay Buhner for Seattle’s Ken Phelps” A LOOK BACK AT BAD TRADES IN COB HISTORY Mention of the July 1988 trade between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners, like in the title of this new series above, is enough to send many New Yorkers over the edge. At the time of the trade, Phelps was in the autumn of his career while Buhner was a rising young star. Though the various CoB “constituencies” are not usually sent over the edge by much of anything, there have been similarly bad trades in the history of USM’s College of Business. This new series takes a look at some of those.