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April 3, 2025Organizational coherence and trust begin with the stories that individual employees tell themselves about their complex identities.
March 18, 2025A pair of George Mason University professors are helping needy nonprofits refine their messaging strategies with the help of customized chatbots.
March 14, 2025While book bans are not new to the American electorate, the rise in these bans since 2021 has sparked contentious media debates. Paradoxically, this has increased the readership of banned books and given politicians on both sides a platform to exploit controversy.
March 11, 2025Information systems professor Nirup Menon has been researching IT and health care for decades. Now, with the help of the newest tech, he’s helping hospitals translate digital transformation into better outcomes for patients.
March 4, 2025China’s complicated and colorful e-commerce landscape gives us a sense of how livestream shopping is transforming retail. Si Xie, assistant professor of information systems and operations management, researches this new trend.
February 27, 2025Since 2008, the meteoric rise of index funds has produced extreme consolidation of corporate ownership. So far, the outcomes for firms are a mixed bag.
January 14, 2025In her off hours, Mariia Petryk, assistant professor of information systems and operations management, is using her data science expertise to help bring decentralized medicine to conflict zones—starting with her birth country, Ukraine.
January 7, 2025One accounting standard to rule them all might be a less desirable state of affairs than the ‘managed divergence’ that currently exists between U.S.-GAAP and IFRS.
December 11, 2024Burned-out auditors are getting dangerously distracted by job postings that offer a glimpse of more appealing professional pathways.
December 4, 2024Leaked payroll data may contradict everything you thought you knew about the economic impact of high-skilled legal immigration.
November 26, 2024New research suggests there’s at least one group of people applauding the collapse of local journalism in the United States: corrupt politicians.
November 25, 2024A George Mason marketing professor is using AI to help organizations gain deeper insights into consumers based on very little information
Faculty Media Mentions
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September 3, 2025Sarah Wittman, assistant professor of management, speaks to Great Place to Work about the advantages of being authentically human in the workplace.
September 3, 2025Municipal bonds (munis) typically offer lower yields than taxable bonds, but their tax-exempt status—especially from federal and often state taxes—can result in higher effective returns for investors in higher tax brackets.
August 25, 2025Management professor Kevin Rockmann discusses his latest research about the power of storytelling in the workplace for Charter.-
August 22, 2025The article argues that the rise of stablecoins and a less independent Federal Reserve could disrupt global central bank cooperation, potentially weaponizing U.S. dollar dominance and threatening international monetary stability.
August 21, 2025Lisa Gring-Pemble, associate professor in the Business Foundations area, is interviewed in Authority Magazine on her ideas about bridging the leadership gender gap.-
August 6, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer writes for The Wall Street Journal about how the maturity timeline of bonds affects investment risk.
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August 2, 2025Forbes interviews management professor Kevin Rockmann about his latest research on using near-death experiences as fodder for workplace storytelling.
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July 23, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer, together with Costello alumni Stephano Sanahuja and Yuge Pang, recently published the piece titled, "Volatility Signals: Do Equities Forecast Bonds?" in Enterprising Investor.
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July 14, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer writes about the possible downsides of the Genius Act, the first-ever piece of stablecoin legislation, for Barron's.
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July 10, 2025Accounting Today covers a research paper by Young Hoon Kim, assistant professor of accounting, about the surprising connections between auditor names and comparability in financial reporting.
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July 9, 2025Accounting professor Young Hoon Kim's paper on the individualistic work habits of accountants with uncommon names is covered at the Going Concern blog.
July 9, 2025Russell Abratt, instructional professor of marketing, garners international coverage (Germany and South Africa) for his recent academic paper about socially responsible branding.