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(December 1, 2008) Lucky Seven? A Look at CoB Google Scholar Cites by Seventh-Best Source
(December 3, 2008) Behind the Eight Ball A Look at CoB Google Scholar Cites by Eighth-Best Source
(December 4, 2008) Nine (Google Scholar) Lives A Look at CoB Google Scholar Cites by Ninth-Best Source
(December 3, 2008) Perks for Buds XXII Accounting for The Who In a famous song by The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” is the line “meet the new boss, the same as the old boss.” That is what the CoB’s Accounting faculty has been trying to accomplish: to make the new hire be the old hire. Not Steve Jackson, Stan Lewis, Rod Posey, or Bob Smith, but the true old school boss, Jim Crockett. The collective “us” in Accounting wants the new director to be just like them. That is understandable. Status quo ante is safe for the “us”. It is not, however, where Dean Lance Nail wants the Accounting School to be. The lack of leadership, lack of quality publications, and the lack of most things good in favor of wanting – no, demanding – to be left alone in their separate accreditation mindset.
(December 10, 2008) Been 10 A Look at CoB Google Scholar Cites by Tenth-Best SourceA Look at CoB Google Scholar Cites by Tenth-Best Source
(December 11, 2008) CoB News, 11 December 2008 Sawyer and the Birds of a Feather There are four former CoB economists who departed the CoB for other institutions since former CoB dean Harold Doty’s arrival in July of 2003. These are Melody Lo, Franklin Mixon, Charles Sawyer, and Sunny Wong, and these four are now with the University of Texas – San Antonio, Auburn University, Texas Christian University, and the University of San Francisco, respectively. Three of these institutions are Tier II universities (AU, TCU and USF). Of these four, Sawyer landed what is arguably the most prestigious appointment, as he is now the Hal Wright Professor of Latin American Economics at the Tier II TCU.
(December 17, 2008 ) Special Report Away Goes Carr An Investigative Report on CoB Faculty Research Credentials With the close of fall semester 2008 comes the end of CoB associate professor of management Jon Carr’s career at USM. In Jan-09 Carr will become an assistant professor of management at Texas Christian University. With Carr will go the research portfolio he has put together since coming to USM several years ago. That portfolio is presented in Table 1 below:
(January 5, 2009) CoB News, 7 January 2009 Letter to the Editor The following anonymous e-mail was recently sent to the editor of USMNEWS.net. It concerns part of the "Sawyer and the Birds of a Feather" portion of CoB News, 11 December 2008, which compares the research portfolios of former CoB economists Melody Lo and Sunny Wong to those of their replacements, Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti.