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November 26, 2024New research suggests there’s at least one group of people applauding the collapse of local journalism in the United States: corrupt politicians.
November 25, 2024A George Mason marketing professor is using AI to help organizations gain deeper insights into consumers based on very little information
November 21, 2024We know from prior research that savvy investors respond to ESG data. But a pair of finance professors have discovered perhaps the most lucrative wrinkle in this strategy.
November 19, 2024The 2008 financial crisis cast a pall of pessimism over veteran CEOs that took three years to lift. David Koo, assistant professor of accounting, has found that memories of past recessions, triggered by recent ones, can weigh on chief executives’ decisions, literally for years.
October 22, 2024Under the supervision of Costello professor Derek Horstmeyer, student-driven research insights are raising eyebrows among employers—and readers of major newspapers.
October 8, 2024Not only are retailers failing to retain and redirect business from shuttered physical locations, but their performance elsewhere also suffers as a result.
October 1, 2024Not all organizations measure success in dollars and cents. There are also the purists, whose unswerving integrity may deliver outsized market benefits—if they aren’t fatally misunderstood first.
September 19, 2024Post-Covid complaints about “Zoom fatigue,” work-life imbalance, etc. belie a deeper longing for what was lost in the transition to remote work.
September 4, 2024Thanking someone in advance for something you’re asking them to do increases their motivation and commitment to the task. This savvy managerial technique also raises some tricky ethical questions.
August 27, 2024With the right operational strategy, transitioning from selling products to delivering services can be the right move for profits, people and the planet. Ioannis Bellos, associate professor of information systems and operations management (OM) and MBA Program Director at the Donald G. Costello College of Business, and Hang Ren, associate professor of OM at Costello, have published research exploring how servicization can live up to its massive potential.
August 22, 2024Artificial intelligence can perform peer firm selection—a key task for investors—at least as accurately as well-established alternative algorithms and human experts, according to research by Costello profs Long Chen and Yi Cao.
August 16, 2024Fake trades engineered to juice an exchange’s numbers have been a part of bitcoin exchanges since the beginning, finds a George Mason finance prof.
Faculty Media Mentions
August 6, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer writes for The Wall Street Journal about how the maturity timeline of bonds affects investment risk.-
August 2, 2025Forbes interviews management professor Kevin Rockmann about his latest research on using near-death experiences as fodder for workplace storytelling.
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July 23, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer, together with Costello alumni Stephano Sanahuja and Yuge Pang, recently published the piece titled, "Volatility Signals: Do Equities Forecast Bonds?" in Enterprising Investor.
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July 14, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer writes about the possible downsides of the Genius Act, the first-ever piece of stablecoin legislation, for Barron's.
July 10, 2025Accounting Today covers a research paper by Young Hoon Kim, assistant professor of accounting, about the surprising connections between auditor names and comparability in financial reporting.-
July 9, 2025Accounting professor Young Hoon Kim's paper on the individualistic work habits of accountants with uncommon names is covered at the Going Concern blog.
July 9, 2025Russell Abratt, instructional professor of marketing, garners international coverage (Germany and South Africa) for his recent academic paper about socially responsible branding.
July 9, 2025Cheryl Druehl, senior associate dean for faculty affairs and research, speaks to Virginia Business about the probability of a manufacturing renaissance in the U.S.-
July 3, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer recently published a piece titled, "The Best Way to Take RMDs From Your Retirement Accounts" in the Wall Street Journal.
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June 29, 2025If the central bank takes its baseline interest rate down to 0% again, regional banks will be competing more directly with the digital token.
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June 26, 2025Not that American investors need a guide—a booming industry is doing the job for them
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June 25, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer contributed an op-ed piece titled "Is the Fed Ready for an AI Economy?" to The Wall Street Journal, urging the Federal Reserve to pay attention to AI's imminent involvement in money creation.