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(April 16, 2007) CoBsters Without Portfolio What the Doty-Niroomand “Resignations” will Ultimately Cost MS TaxpayersThe announcement on 10 April 2007 that the USM Human Resources Department had “confirmed” that CoB Dean D. Harold Doty and CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand “resigned” from their administrative duties sent a small tremor across the already battle-scarred USM campus.

(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.

(April 16, 2007) EFIB News, April 2007 A number of news items have been coming out of the EFIB Department in recent days. Of course, one of them is the "resignation" of Farhang Niroomand as Associate Dean of the CoB. Niroomand (see below), also a professor of economics, cited several reasons for leaving the AD post, such as health concerns, his desire to get back into the classroom full-time, and the lack of attention he has paid to his journal, the Journal of Current Research in Global Business, in recent weeks and months.

(April 22, 2007) Women, Race, and Class: Would Angela Davis Give Harold Doty a Passing Grade? During his now-infamous interview at the University of South Florida, Harold Doty bragged that he was successful in hiring the first African-American female faculty member in the history of the CoB. Doty’s statement was in response to an obviously “planted” question and was an even more obvious attempt to portray himself as the great leveler of playing fields and a rebel among rednecks here in Mississippi. Doty has no doubt trotted out the story of the hiring of Jennifer Sequeira at many of his numerous job interviews. The real question is: Has Doty ever mentioned the story of Phyllis Keys in those interviews?

(April 24, 2007) George Carter: CoB Dean Slayer Current EFIB Chair George Carter has served on the administrative teams of two deans: H. Tyrone Black and D. Harold Doty. Both of these business college administrations ended ignominiously.