Costello College of Business News

Amit Dutta, information systems and operations management professor, and LeRoy Eakin endowed chair at the School of Business, together with international colleagues Biju Paul Abraham, Rahul Roy, and Priya Seetharaman from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India, conducted research that identified structural mechanisms underlying these performance problems and suggested constructive managerial interventions to alleviate them.

Jenelle K. Conaway, assistant professor of accounting, has conducted research to determine the impact of female directors on boards’ commitment to socially responsible business practices.

C. Kat Grimsley, former director of the MS in Real Estate Development program, has made international engagement a central part of her professional career.

Raea Jean Leinster, BA Russian Area Studies ’92, launched Yuck Old Paint, LLC in 2014 in response to an unmet need she heard repeatedly from her design clients – what to do with gallons and gallons of leftover, unused and unwanted cans of paint, plaster and other toxic materials.

The concept of establishing development state models in Africa is not new, but it has seen great discussion since the 1980s. The idea is to have the government become involved in businesses and production to enhance all its people’s development.

In a world dominated by money, Bhutan weighs the nation’s happiness above their economic growth as a measure of a healthy country. One lucky group of Mason students received a firsthand view of Bhutan (prior to the pandemic), led by now retired Jeff Kulick, instructor of marketing and teaching faculty fellow.

New research by Serdar Aldatmaz, assistant professor of finance, benefits organizations that are seeking to move operations overseas.

There is so much more to honey bees than producing honey, and at George Mason University, nobody knows that better than the team at the Honey Bee Initiative.

J.P. Auffret, director of research partnerships, is the co-founder and current president of the International Academy of CIO (IAC). The IAC was founded in 2006 in Japan by co-founders from Japan, the United States, Indonesia, Philippines, Switzerland and Thailand.

A two-time School of Business alumnus (he received his undergraduate degree from the school in 1979, and his MBA in 1985), Pete Farrell came to sailing in a special way. “When my wife and I got married, we agreed that every five years we’d do something we'd never done before. Skiing was one of those things, whitewater rafting was another, and sailing was one,” he says.

The path for Misheel Ganbat, BS Information Systems and Operations Management ’19, has been filled with peaks and valleys amid a range of adventures.

Mason Korea, established in 2014 as part of the university’s initiative to expand and establish a global footprint, offers international students an opportunity to gain an undergraduate degree from George Mason University while studying abroad.