{"id":5908,"date":"2012-03-22T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=5908"},"modified":"2012-03-22T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T16:56:34","slug":"economist-to-leave-bsus-economic-research-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/22\/economist-to-leave-bsus-economic-research-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist To Leave BSU&#8217;s Economic Research Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5911\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 160px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Brian Greber has been the director of COBE since 2009.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/Greber_Brian.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5911\" title=\"Greber_Brian\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/Greber_Brian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Boise State University<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Greber has been the director of COBE since 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Idaho Business Review<\/em> reports Economist Brian Greber is leaving Boise State University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cobe.boisestate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Business Research and Economic Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hoping for An Economic Turnaround? Five Idaho Industries to\u00a0Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/09\/14\/five-idaho-industries-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greber<\/a> has directed\u00a0<del><\/del>COBE, <del><\/del>part-time<del><\/del>, since December 2009.\u00a0 He told the <em>Idaho Business Review<\/em> he&#8217;s leaving the University to \u00a0do area consulting work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;I wasn\u2019t doing it for the money,\u201d he said March 21. \u201cIt was starting to become work instead of fun.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Greber\u2019s last day at the center is March 30. He and a work-study student were the sole employees of the center, which is part of Boise State\u2019s College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>It could be hard to find another director of Greber\u2019s caliber who is as inexpensive. Greber said he made about $600 a week for Boise State, with no benefits.&#8221; &#8211; Idaho Business Review<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Greber told <a href=\"http:\/\/idahobusinessreview.com\/2012\/03\/21\/economist-brian-greber-to-leave-boise-state-research-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">IBR.com<\/a> he&#8217;ll continue to teach two classes at Boise State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Business Review reports Economist Brian Greber is leaving Boise State University&#8217;s Center for Business Research and Economic Development. Greber has directed\u00a0COBE, part-time, since December 2009.\u00a0 He told the Idaho Business Review he&#8217;s leaving the University to \u00a0do area consulting work. &#8220;&#8216;I wasn\u2019t doing it for the money,\u201d he said March 21. \u201cIt was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":5911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[73,148],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}