Faculty Media Mentions

“Macroeconomic factors like waning consumer demand and absorbed spending pullback is probably going to have an impact on all of retail, and amongst the retail sectors, I think apparel is going to be one of the sectors that is going to get hit the hardest,” said Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation and associate professor of marketing, in an interview with Bisnow.

How Kroger and Albertson's will mesh their approaches to automation is just one of many technology-related questions the grocery chains will need to resolve as they look to merge, according to Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation, in an interview with Grocery Dive.

Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship Director Eric Maribojoc comments on the pros and cons of rent control in a story for Florida's Spectrum News 13.

Business Foundations Professor George Perry told DC News Now the NFL group “is small because they’ve got to be billionaires, basically,” and that they will be checking whether to vet the financial security of any potential owner or owners.

Lack of “fit” is often cited as a key reason why new hires fail in their roles. But Management Professor Sarah Wittman argues in the Harvard Business Review that “fit” doesn’t always stem from incompatibility, but rather can come from a failure to complete the psychological transition from one identity to another.

“Not everybody has the luxury or the ability to take school groups to see the hives and to learn about them,” says Business for a Better World co-director Lisa Gring-Pemble. This was the driving force behind the Hive Alive project, which uses virtual reality to teach local students about bees in an immersive manner.

A number of retail mergers and acquisitions went awry in 2022. So what’s in store for 2023? "If this holiday season doesn’t go well, then you’re probably going to see more talks of mergers and acquisitions,” said Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation, in an interview with Retail Dive.

“Potential homebuyers face a difficult predicament,” said Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer in an interview with ABC News, “since mortgage rates will likely remain elevated for at least a year and a dearth of housing supply will take as many as 10 years to address.” 

While the bill allocates billions in incentives to encourage chip manufacturers to build or expand fabrication plants across the country, it also includes an 'and science' opportunity in the form of small business innovation research and technology grants, which “will play a large role in the university setting and create more funding for R&D, scientific research and innovation,” says Rebecca Howick, Director of Operations for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

For most drivers in the United States, obeying a stop sign upon approaching an intersection is an unavoidable annoyance. But for Finance Professor Jiasun Li, it's a problem waiting to be solved.

An article in the Fairfax County Times explains the Honey Bee Initiative’s Hive Alive project.

“Northern Virginia has been No. 1 for economic mobility in the past four decades,” said Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship Director Eric Maribojoc. But the market is not producing enough housing for 60,000 new residents expected next decade.