LEISA FLYNN, PROFESSOR AND CHAIR
MARKETING AND FASHION MERCHANDISING
(May 7, 2009) Breaking News Leisa Flynn to Chair Marketing & Fashion Merchandising HATTIESBURG – CoB dean Lance Nail has announced that Florida State University professor of marketing, Leisa Flynn (shown below), will become the new chair of the CoB’s new department of marketing and fashion merchandising. Oddly, however, Flynn’s tenure in the CoB does not begin until 1-Jan-10. Until that time, CoB management professor David Duhon will continue to serve as interim chair of all marketing and fashion merchandising faculty and programs.
(May 9, 2009) Just an Old Sweet Song In and Around USM’s College of Business The addition of Florida State University's Leisa Flynn (shown above) to CoB dean Lance Nail's management team – in this case as chair of marketing and fashion merchandising – continues to generate buzz in an around USM's b-school. A recent Internet search reveals that Flynn has compiled 617 Google Scholar citations. That total puts Flynn at the top of the current CoB. As one source put it, ". . . Flynn looks like a 'good get' for Lance Nail. It's a real shame she's going into administration, and not into a traditional, research-active faculty line."
(December 1, 2009) Top Stories of 2009 by Duane Cobb Long-time readers of USMNEWS.net are probably aware that I like to provide “Top __” type lists from time to time. The end of the year is a popular occasion for such a thing. In this three-part series, of which this is Part 1, I am providing my Top 10 news stories of 2009. Let’s get to the list.
8. FSU’s Leisa Flynn Hired to Chair MKT
(January 4, 2010) Flynn Arrives CoB's New Marketing Chair Arrives Mid-Year The long-awaited arrival of the CoB's new marketing chair, Leisa Flynn, from Florida State University is now reality. According to Van Arnold's 4-Jan-10 press report, Flynn (pictured below) is now safely ensconced in Joseph Greene Hall.
(January 12, 2010) GH Chatter More chatter about anxiety amongst the CoB’s fashion merchandisers and decision scientists. Both groups will possibly find themselves on the chopping block as future rounds of budget cuts come to fruition. Any anxiety from FMers may also be coming from reports that new marketing chair Leisa Flynn wants to de-emphasize “fashion merchandising,” and instead emphasize “retail merchandising.” Doing so would perhaps allow her to replace at least two of the FMers with one or more junior marketing professors.
(April 6, 2010) 31st & Pearl CoB Stimulus Package Something CoB dean Lance Nail perhaps failed to properly account for when ousting the CoB’s economics faculty is the combination of their low cost and wide applicability. Under previous b-school deans, the economists were covering undergraduate and graduate economics courses, undergraduate and graduate statistics courses, and undergraduate international business courses. In fact, this was also happening during the early (2008-10) portion of Nail’s current reign. To top this all off, the CoB could, and still can, acquire economists for only 70-something thousand dollars apiece.