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December 4, 2025To please both the planet and shareholders at the same time, firms must travel a triangular path.
December 1, 2025How does the PCAOB, which oversees corporate audits, select targets for inspection? A George Mason University accounting professor built a model to help capture the process.
November 7, 2025A pair of George Mason University marketing professors have unpacked the surprisingly intense and complicated emotional consequences of brand inauthenticity.
November 3, 2025Rising rivalry between the U.S. and China is reshaping corporate decisions on sourcing, production, and investment.
October 24, 2025Air quality standards do more than reduce pollution for noncompliant counties; they increase the cost of funding public infrastructure like schools, hospitals, and roads.
October 22, 2025It’s no surprise that short-selling carries heavy weight on Wall Street. But next to nothing has been known about the agent lenders from whom short-sellers borrow their shares—until now.
October 10, 2025Jessica Hoppner, associate professor of marketing at the Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason University, has been named a recipient of Academy of Marketing Research Funding for 2025.-
October 8, 2025Managers’ attempts to distract investors from bad news have serious implications for market efficiency.
October 1, 2025Meet the newest Costello researchers, and become acquainted with their scholarly profiles.
September 29, 2025Illicit massage businesses (IMBs) run by human trafficking rings are rampant in the United States. A George Mason professor has helped build what may be the best AI-driven tool to root them out.
September 11, 2025Pharmaceutical website design can determine whether patients grasp critical risks, recall benefits, and take meaningful next steps.
September 3, 2025Taxing “book” income may result in worse information for shareholders and creditors.
Faculty Media Mentions
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December 19, 2025Siddharth Bhattacharya, assistant professor in the information systems and operations management area at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, takes an in-depth look at how advertisers can win attention.
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December 15, 2025Long Chen, accounting area chair, and Yi Cao, assistant professor of accounting, contribute an article to Harvard Business Review about how managers need to "twice-groom" their public information as AI models generate meaningful insights at surprising scale and speed, in an article titled, "Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI."
December 9, 2025The David Ellison-run company is promising Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders a deal it says is more lucrative and easier for the Trump administration to approve.-
December 5, 2025Stock-and-bond portfolios suffer when inflation spikes, but a commodities stake would cut risk and boost returns, research finds.
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November 16, 2025Derek Horstmeyer, finance professor at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, writes for The Wall Street Journal exploring whether and how to do a Roth conversion, in an article titled, "The Best Way to Do a Roth IRA Conversion Before Retirement."
November 13, 2025Instructional associate professor of management Victoria Grady co-authors an article giving advice on change management during M&A for INSIDE Public Accounting, in an article titled, "Perspectives from the Profession: When Firms Merge Change Management Determines the Outcome."
November 12, 2025The Horizons Tracker summarizes accounting professor Han Stice's research on the economic effects of local newspaper closure, in an article titled, "Why Losing Local Newspapers Costs More Than We Think."-
November 11, 2025Pharma & Health Insider spotlights research by professors Siddharth Bhattacharya and Nirup Menon in the information systems and operations management area, focusing on the optimal design of pharmaceutical websites.
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November 6, 2025TIPS perform best if you get in when inflation is low, research finds.
October 21, 2025Victoria Grady, instructional associate professor of management, spoke with TEDx Talks on how individuals can transform how they navigate personal and professional transitions.-
October 20, 2025Accounting professor Han Stice talks to Business Insider about his research on how H-1B visas affected wages for expatriates and U.S. citizens at Deloitte, in an article titled, "After the H-1B visa fee hike, global teams are looking like the future of work."
October 17, 2025Patrick Soleymani, associate dean of outreach and strategic management, speaks to Spectrum News about the potential economic impact of new tariffs within the state of Texas, in an article titled, "North Texas business owners feeling impact of tariffs in tech and auto industry."