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Research News
- 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
- November 21, 2024We know from prior research that savvy investors respond to ESG data. But a pair of finance professors have discovered perhaps the most lucrative wrinkle in this strategy.
- November 19, 2024The 2008 financial crisis cast a pall of pessimism over veteran CEOs that took three years to lift. David Koo, assistant professor of accounting, has found that memories of past recessions, triggered by recent ones, can weigh on chief executives’ decisions, literally for years.
- October 22, 2024Under the supervision of Costello professor Derek Horstmeyer, student-driven research insights are raising eyebrows among employers—and readers of major newspapers.
- October 8, 2024Not only are retailers failing to retain and redirect business from shuttered physical locations, but their performance elsewhere also suffers as a result.
- October 1, 2024Not all organizations measure success in dollars and cents. There are also the purists, whose unswerving integrity may deliver outsized market benefits—if they aren’t fatally misunderstood first.
- September 19, 2024Post-Covid complaints about “Zoom fatigue,” work-life imbalance, etc. belie a deeper longing for what was lost in the transition to remote work.
- September 4, 2024Thanking someone in advance for something you’re asking them to do increases their motivation and commitment to the task. This savvy managerial technique also raises some tricky ethical questions.
Faculty Media Mentions
- January 4, 2026Research shows these funds can help in a downturn, but alternatives might be cheaper.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."