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May 10, 2024George Mason researchers Nirup Menon and Brian Ngac recently won a two-year award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to create unique experiential learning opportunities and workshops designed to enhance cybersecurity education and workforce development.
April 29, 2024The executive director of George Mason’s government contracting research center highlights “agile acquisition” as the key to beefing up national defense.
April 18, 2024Bo Hu, an assistant professor of finance at Mason, is developing new research methods to better capture the intricate, interlinked dynamics of financial markets.
April 16, 2024Like financial markets, the creative industries are driven to seek equilibrium, which may be good news for both human content creators and their algorithmic adversaries. Jiasun Li, an associate professor of finance, is researching this in a new working paper.
April 10, 2024Measuring risk in private equity is notoriously difficult. New research by Mason assistant professor of accounting, Mariia Nykyforovych, suggests that metric-based myopia, and the distorted incentives it creates, are partly responsible.
April 5, 2024You can spend millions to buy a company for its employees, but how do you know they’ll stay put? Now, AI can predict post-deal turnover with a startling degree of accuracy. In a recently working paper, Jingyuan Yang, an information systems and operations management professor at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, discovers how to efficiently predict employee turnover using an innovative AI-driven approach
April 3, 2024Mason accounting professor, David Koo, goes back through history to trace how financial reporting requirements affect investors’ long- vs. short-term thinking.
March 28, 2024The college that now bears Donald G. Costello’s name is a fitting testament to his entrepreneurial legacy. This extends not only to coursework and outreach programs, which have long stressed entrepreneurship, but also to the faculty’s research expertise. Indeed, a number of Costello College of Business professors were key contributors to Mason’s being named the #2 university for entrepreneurship research in North America by independent ratings agency EduRank.
March 11, 2024Sarah Wittman, an assistant professor of management at Mason's Costello College of Business, unpacks this complex problem and proposes some potential research-based solutions.-
February 22, 2024Jiasun Li, an associate professor of finance at the Costello College of Business, has received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. According to the NSF website, the CAREER award is given to “early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”
February 15, 2024Why the legal framework currently in play to protect our online data isn’t working—and how it might be improved. Brad Greenwood, an information systems professor at the Costello College of Business, researches breach notification laws.
February 13, 2024Deciding whether to reveal someone else’s secrets isn’t just a moral dilemma. It can also have a serious impact on your reputation. Costello College of Business assistant professor of management, Einav Hart, explores this issue in a series of studies.
Faculty Media Mentions
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June 13, 2025Brad Greenwood, Dean's Distinguished Professor in the information systems and operations management area, writes for Columbia Journalism Review about his research on the collapse of local journalism in the U.S.
June 6, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer writes for The Wall Street Journal about how the fate of the dollar may impact investment decisions.
May 27, 2025Sarah Wittman, assistant professor of management, speaks to Forbes about AI's potential impact upon the professional talent pipeline.
May 9, 2025The Times of India covers research by accounting professors Long Chen and June Woo Park, finding that left-handed CEOs achieve higher innovative output. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/study-finds-co… The paper has been covered elsewhere in the Indian media, including: Live India (https://liveindia.tv/lifestyle/the-left-handed-edge-why-steve-jobs-zuck…), NDTV (https://www.ndtv.com/feature/scientists-uncover-secret-to-success-of-st…) and The Economic Times (https://www.ndtv.com/feature/scientists-uncover-secret-to-success-of-st…).
May 6, 2025Patrick Soleymani, associate dean for outreach and strategic engagement, is quoted in U.S. News and World Report about companies' responses to changes in tariff policy.-
May 2, 2025Daily Mail Online covers research by accounting professors Long Chen and June Woo Park, suggesting that left-handed CEOs exhibit higher innovation performance.
April 30, 2025Mehmet Altug, associate professor in the information systems and operations management area, speaks to Modern Retail about the challenges involved in setting prices for consumer goods.-
April 29, 2025Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, recently published an article titled, "Should You Buy a Stock Targeted by an Activist Investor?" in The Wall Street Journal.
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April 27, 2025Psychology Today's blog covers research on the relative innovativeness of right- and left-handed business leaders, co-authored by accounting professors Long Chen and June Woo Park.
April 21, 2025In Harvard Business Review, Siddharth Bhattacharya, assistant professor of information systems and operations management, offers tips for marketers looking to maximize mobile advertising opportunities.
April 17, 2025Research co-authored by Sabari Rajan Karmegam, assistant professor in the information systems and operations management area, is covered by the Book Riot blog.
April 8, 2025P. David Tarter, executive director of the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship, is quoted on efficiency-seeking changes to the federal government's real estate portfolio.