LSU was his choice. He had visited Louisiana and like it. I had traveled here and when I moved to Louisiana for the doctorate, the program had a very good support group. His dissertation, A Multi-Criterion Transactional Model , was af finalist for the prestigous Distinguished Dissertation Award for 1992. During his relative short teaching career, to date he has had thirty articles published in scholarly journals and books as well as in regional and national proceedings.
Additional articles are underway.
He has done considerable research about trade shows and most recently in marketing to immigrant groups. Each group has its own psychology that we have to be aware of. Native-born Americans may expect more from service industries. Immigrants, however, don't know what to expect when they arrive. In addition to Dr. O'Hara's prolific research record, he thoroughly enjoys teaching.