Costello College of Business Faculty Media Mentions

What types of bonds deliver the best returns? Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer and his students looked at the performance of fixed-income securities over the past 50 years to find the answer. Read more from The Wall Street Journal.

The economy has gotten a bad taste of supply chain disruptions caused by the end of the pandemic lockdowns and cannot afford another one that a rail strike would cause. Cheryl Druehl, associate dean and professor of information systems and operations management, also sees the strike as having a broad impact. Read her interview in International Business Times.

New research from management professor Einav Hart and Eric VanEpps shows that the way you ask a question determines whether you'll get a straight answer. This article in Psychology Today provides a summary. 

Getting rid of the “Commanders” and starting fresh with a new name for Washington’s NFL team would help wipe the slate clean after years of controversy and scandal, sports marketing experts say - including Business Foundations Instructor George Perry - in this article for The Washington Examiner.

In light of the Miami Heat and Miami-Dade County terminating their partnerships with FTX after its bankruptcy announcement, Business Foundations Instructor George Perry explains why some smaller sports organizations who bet big on crypto brand partnerships may want to look elsewhere for the next big team-up in this interview with Market Scale.

In this op-ed for the Association for Talent Development, Business Foundations professors Leila Austin, Jackie Brown, and Cameron J. Harris write that the organizational focus on structural change from above, while an important step to meet immediate diversity and equity goals, also needs to address interventions at the individual level to create a truly transformative culture of trust and belonging.

“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.