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July 22, 2024You can tell a lot about a hedge fund’s quality—and long-term performance—from the market climate in which it was launched. Lin Sun, assistant professor of finance, recently published a paper in Review of Finance that compares hedge funds formed in high-demand, or “hot,” markets to those produced in a “cold” market climate.
July 16, 2024If you’re nervous about negotiating a starting salary, that’s because your mind is playing not one, but two tricks on you. A George Mason management prof explains how to undo the mental spell.
June 17, 2024George Mason senior associate dean and associate professor of accounting, JK Aier's prizewinning paper shows how firms can benefit from executive roles that strategically bridge the board and management.
June 4, 2024The controversy about biased policing seems to draw endless fuel from race-based differences in public perception. Simply put, the vast majority of White citizens in the United States believe the police are doing a good job, including on issues of racial equality, while a similar percentage of Black citizens hold the opposite opinion. Brad Greenwood, professor of information systems and operations management, researches how digital technologies are bringing unprecedented transparency to police practices.
May 30, 2024The Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting is working with the federal government to reform the military’s Cold War-era processes for tech development.
May 15, 2024The SEC’s unique treatment of companies that opt into public reporting shows that lighter-touch regulation can sometimes be just as effective. Associate professor of accounting Bret Johnson’s recent paper looks at how the SEC handles the added responsibility of reviewing voluntary filings.
May 10, 2024George Mason researchers Nirup Menon and Brian Ngac recently won a two-year award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to create unique experiential learning opportunities and workshops designed to enhance cybersecurity education and workforce development.
April 29, 2024The executive director of George Mason’s government contracting research center highlights “agile acquisition” as the key to beefing up national defense.
April 18, 2024Bo Hu, an assistant professor of finance at Mason, is developing new research methods to better capture the intricate, interlinked dynamics of financial markets.
April 16, 2024Like financial markets, the creative industries are driven to seek equilibrium, which may be good news for both human content creators and their algorithmic adversaries. Jiasun Li, an associate professor of finance, is researching this in a new working paper.
April 10, 2024Measuring risk in private equity is notoriously difficult. New research by Mason assistant professor of accounting, Mariia Nykyforovych, suggests that metric-based myopia, and the distorted incentives it creates, are partly responsible.
April 5, 2024You can spend millions to buy a company for its employees, but how do you know they’ll stay put? Now, AI can predict post-deal turnover with a startling degree of accuracy. In a recently working paper, Jingyuan Yang, an information systems and operations management professor at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, discovers how to efficiently predict employee turnover using an innovative AI-driven approach
Faculty Media Mentions
July 9, 2025Cheryl Druehl, senior associate dean for faculty affairs and research, speaks to Virginia Business about the probability of a manufacturing renaissance in the U.S.
July 3, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer recently published a piece titled, "The Best Way to Take RMDs From Your Retirement Accounts" in the Wall Street Journal.-
June 29, 2025If the central bank takes its baseline interest rate down to 0% again, regional banks will be competing more directly with the digital token.
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June 26, 2025Not that American investors need a guide—a booming industry is doing the job for them
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June 25, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer contributed an op-ed piece titled "Is the Fed Ready for an AI Economy?" to The Wall Street Journal, urging the Federal Reserve to pay attention to AI's imminent involvement in money creation.
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June 17, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer is interviewed on the Wall Street Journal podcast Your Money Briefing in an episode titled "How the Strength of the U.S. Dollar Impacts Your Investment Portfolio."
June 13, 2025Spanish-language website Trendencias covers Long Chen and June Woo Park's research on the creative advantages of left-handed CEOs.
June 13, 2025Shun Ye, associate professor of information systems and operations management, describes his research on AI and consumer decision-making for The Academic Minute.-
June 13, 2025Brad Greenwood, Dean's Distinguished Professor in the information systems and operations management area, writes for Columbia Journalism Review about his research on the collapse of local journalism in the U.S.
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June 6, 2025Finance professor Derek Horstmeyer writes for The Wall Street Journal about how the fate of the dollar may impact investment decisions.
May 27, 2025Sarah Wittman, assistant professor of management, speaks to Forbes about AI's potential impact upon the professional talent pipeline.
May 9, 2025The Times of India covers research by accounting professors Long Chen and June Woo Park, finding that left-handed CEOs achieve higher innovative output. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/study-finds-co… The paper has been covered elsewhere in the Indian media, including: Live India (https://liveindia.tv/lifestyle/the-left-handed-edge-why-steve-jobs-zuck…), NDTV (https://www.ndtv.com/feature/scientists-uncover-secret-to-success-of-st…) and The Economic Times (https://www.ndtv.com/feature/scientists-uncover-secret-to-success-of-st…).