ARTICLES CONCERNING
NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS
(July 28, 2006) 31st & Pearl: Dude, where's my Kaetsu Prof? "A Distinguished Professorship held in secret. Where
else but "Mississippi's Business School" is there so much PRIDE in who they are and what they do that they want to
keep it all hidden? That's the question we have after reading the Special Report here at usmpride.com on the
"missing" Kaetsu Distinguished Professorship in International Business...".
(April 3, 2008) 31st & Pearl The Kaetsu Chair Goes Round and Round, Round and Round, . . . With Interim CoB Dean
Alvin Williams' departure for South Alabama looming, it's not too early to begin speculation about the fate of the
CoB's Kaetsu Distinguished Chair of International Business, a goodie Williams now holds despite being a marketing
professor (i.e., not IB) and the Dean (i.e., not a regular'line faculty). Conventional wisdom would say that three
individuals are front runners, and, by "CoB wisdom" only, the CoB's sole IB professor, John Lambert, is not among
them.
(May 7, 2008) The 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award: A Look Ahead Part 1 With the 2009 Louis K. Brandt
Research Award less than one year away, USMNEWS reporters have decided to take a look at the top contenders for
the award, on a unit-by-unit basis. Each unit will be covered in this multi-part series, and the final installment in this
series will aggregate all of the information from each issue in order to present an overall ranking of contenders
(May 7, 2008) Glancing Back Two years ago, here was how the Harold Doty administration handed out the booty.
How did they do?