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February 10, 2022Despite the software industry’s rapid growth and deep pockets, tech companies are still engaged in bare-knuckles battle with cybercriminals. Nirup Menon and Pallab Sanyal's recent research confirms the existence of a willingness-to-pay (WTP) dilemma.
February 8, 2022Managerial overconfidence is a serious risk that has drawn increasing attention from executives, investors, and researchers in recent years. Mindy (Hyo Jung) Kim, an assistant professor of accounting at Mason, has not only found that it’s possible to incorporate ability-adjusted overconfidence into real-world business assessments, but that it happens routinely.
February 2, 2022The combination of two unlikely bedfellows—cryptography, a subfield of computer science, and currency, a topic in economics—is at the heart of the transformative potential of its underlying blockchain technology. But the uniqueness of the pairing can make it very difficult for research professionals in either field to predict, let alone positively influence, blockchain’s future development. Jiasun Li, an assistant professor of finance at Mason, is among an elite group of academics who are bridging the divide by merging relevant concepts from computer science with game theory—a subfield of economics that studies the interactions of decisions made by interdependent economic actors.
January 26, 2022Siddharth Bhattacharya, a professor of information systems at Mason, recently co-conducted the first-ever empirical study on competitive poaching, the strategy of bidding on competitors' keywords.- January 14, 2022This paper aims to explore the current environment of business education, the role of liberal education and the school’s programs and their benefits.
January 12, 2022Cheryl Druehl, an operations management professor at Mason as well as the Mason's School of Business associate dean for faculty, has found that unblind contests can foster contestant behaviors that constrain overall innovativeness.
November 16, 2021Tarun Kushwaha, a professor of marketing at the George Mason University School of Business, recently ran an experiment that pitted the brainpower of actual human executives against trained algorithms.
November 16, 2021Kelly Wentland, an accounting professor at the George Mason University School of Business, recently published a paper in Management Science that further specifies and quantifies firm response to tax uncertainty.
November 15, 2021Information Systems and Operations Management Professor Brad Greenwood's forthcoming paper is by far the most extensive analysis of body-worn cameras' impact in a major American city.
November 12, 2021Lin Sun, an assistant professor of finance at the George Mason University School of Business, has uncovered that even top investors share a very human weakness– their professional acumen can be thrown off by inclement weather.
November 11, 2021Women who join tech companies must find a way to navigate a toxic workplace. Mandy O’Neill's forthcoming paper in Organization Science, written with Natalya M. Alonso of Haskayne School of Business, documents the “sexist culture of joviality” among trainees at a Latin American site run by a major U.S. tech company.
November 2, 2021Forming relationships with other accelerator participants and mentors from CAR and beyond, George Mason University is fostering a culture of entrepreneurship in the small African country.
Faculty Media Mentions
May 8, 2024Assistant professor of management Einav Hart describes her recent research paper for Harvard Business Review. In their research, Hart and her colleagues asked both candidates and managers to estimate the likelihood that a candidate who negotiates will have the offer rescinded.
May 6, 2024Victoria Grady, associate professor of management, writes in HR Dive about how collaborations between AI and human managers will permanently shift the way we work.
May 1, 2024Derek Horstmeyer, a professor of finance, recently had the article titled "‘Sell in May and Go Away’ Isn’t as Useful as It Once Was," published by The Wall Street Journal.
April 25, 2024Sean Spence, an adjunct finance professor, was interviewed by Money Geek about securing secured credit cards.
April 24, 2024Sarah Wittman, assistant professor of management, contributes to this article for Fast Company about how job interviews can be adjusted to accommodate the needs of neurodiverse individuals.
April 23, 2024Mandy O'Neill, associate professor of management, speaks to "The Academic Minute" about workplace cultures of anxiety.-
April 17, 2024Research by Sarah Wittman, assistant professor of management, was cited in the Harvard Business Review article "When Your Colleagues Have an Outdated Perception of You."
April 17, 2024In this article for AACSB Insights, Christine Landoll, professor of practice and director of business engagement, and Haley White, a senior studying business management at Costello College of Business, describe how Costello's pilot of the Mason Chooses Kindness initiative could inspire a "kindness revolution" within business schools.
April 15, 2024Associate Professor of Finance Steve Pilloff is quoted in a CNN Underscored article about high-yield savings accounts.
April 15, 2024Derek Horstmeyer, a professor of finance, is quoted in an article titled, "Trump Media stock price plummets Monday as company files to issue millions of shares" in USA Today.-
April 12, 2024Derek Horstmeyer, a professor of finance, recently had the article titled "Does a Stock’s Price Influence Its Risk Profile?" published by the CFA Institute.
April 8, 2024Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, weighs in on the current debate around large defense contractors engaging in share buybacks in this article for DefenseNews.