Faculty Media Mentions

Two years after becoming the first major crypto company to go public, San Francisco-based Coinbase is waging a battle that could determine its future as a U.S.-based company. Jiasun Li, assistant professor of finance, tells the San Francisco Examiner that it's not surprising that Coinbase is hitting back.

Does market timing hurt portfolios most during up years or down years? What about when things are volatile? Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer ran the numbers in this column for the Wall Street Journal.

Dean Ajay Vinzé talks to the Washington Business Journal about the recent $50 million bequest from the trust of Donald G. Costello to provide business school scholarships largely focused on entrepreneurship.

Donald Costello from Leesburg has left a $50 million gift to George Mason University’s School of Business program, which will rename the school in his honor as the Donald G. Costello School of Business. School of Business Dean Ajay Vinzé talks about the gift in a Louden Times-Mirror article.

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer is quoted in a U.S. News & World Report article about interest-rate-sensitive stocks.

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer talked tax efficiency and trading tips with ETFs on a podcast for Zacks. 

Steve Pilloff, associate professor of finance, was quoted in a U.S. News & World Report article about the best Fidelity bond funds to buy for steady income.

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer is quoted in this U.S. News & World Report article on high dividend ETFs that investors can use for increased income potential.

Business Foundations Instructor and former Washington Football Team Vice President of Strategic Marketing George Perry talked about his time with the franchise under Dan Snyder in an interview with 106.7 The Fan.

In an article for CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor blog, Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer, Mason alumni Ruben Devia, and finance student Xiaozhu Zhang investigate whether the best equity fund managers follow the bond market.

Business Foundations Instructor and former Washington Football Team Vice President of Strategic Marketing George Perry gives insight on next steps once new ownership arrives in an interview with DC News Now.

In an op-ed for AACSB Insights, Rich Klimoski, associate dean of research, writes about why it’s so important that business schools make grant-funded research the norm in their faculty’s scholarly activities, not the exception.