ARTICLES CONCERNING
DR. ROBERT SMITH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF
ACCOUNTING
(May 24, 2007) Money, Money, Money, Money Consulting and Paid Service in USM’s College of Business This report
examines the consulting and paid service that faculty in the CoB are performing, at least according their own
SEDONA files (as of May 2007). As you will see below, some of the CoB’s least research-active faculty are engaging in
significant amounts of consulting and paid service, all of which enhances their (in some cases bloated) USM salaries.
At the bottom of each consulting/paid service bio below, we provide salary data for 2006-07 along with a projected
salary for 2007-08. Enjoy.
(April 24, 2008) CoB News, 24 April 2008 Google Scholar Citations Sluggers The Google Scholars citations analyses
here at USMNEWS.NET usually make for some of our more popular reports. For those of you who have recently
ventured out into GS-land, you may have noticed that Google has been working on implementing an upgrade to that
engine. No group is more excited about that than USMNEWS.NET’s reporters. While we await that, there are some
additional elements of research quality in the CoB to consider.
(October 22, 2008) Carter's Mercenaries A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail Administration
Have no doubts about it, EFIB chairman George Carter is on a mission to bring down the new Lance Nail
administration of USM's College of Business. And, with the hiring and firing and "friendraising" efforts Carter has
made over the past two decades, he may indeed pull it off before it is all over. This column is Part 3 in a three-part
series of opinion pieces that will attempt to explain just how Carter may pull off the coup that some in the CoB are
hoping for and others are nervous about.