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Research News
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
April 3, 2024Mason accounting professor, David Koo, goes back through history to trace how financial reporting requirements affect investors’ long- vs. short-term thinking.
March 28, 2024The college that now bears Donald G. Costello’s name is a fitting testament to his entrepreneurial legacy. This extends not only to coursework and outreach programs, which have long stressed entrepreneurship, but also to the faculty’s research expertise. Indeed, a number of Costello College of Business professors were key contributors to Mason’s being named the #2 university for entrepreneurship research in North America by independent ratings agency EduRank.
March 11, 2024Sarah Wittman, an assistant professor of management at Mason's Costello College of Business, unpacks this complex problem and proposes some potential research-based solutions.
February 22, 2024Jiasun Li, an associate professor of finance at the Costello College of Business, has received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. According to the NSF website, the CAREER award is given to “early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”
February 15, 2024Why the legal framework currently in play to protect our online data isn’t working—and how it might be improved. Brad Greenwood, an information systems professor at the Costello College of Business, researches breach notification laws.
February 13, 2024Deciding whether to reveal someone else’s secrets isn’t just a moral dilemma. It can also have a serious impact on your reputation. Costello College of Business assistant professor of management, Einav Hart, explores this issue in a series of studies.
February 6, 2024Mason finance professor Lei Gao, finds a “precautionary effect” at work in the minds of Republican-supporting CEOs, leading to more frequent and accurate earnings forecasts.
January 22, 2024To stay competitive in the war for talent, tech companies must weigh secrecy against specificity when crafting job ads. Are they disclosing too much?
January 8, 2024A Mason professor unpacks the complex, nuanced impact of the “revolving door” between industry and regulators in the accounting world.
January 5, 2024Even famously neutral news organizations are not immune to the pressure to compete for clicks in the increasingly partisan online marketplace.
Faculty Media Mentions
September 10, 2025Marketing professor Russell Abratt speaks to WalletHub about increasing car insurance premiums and how consumers can respond, in an article titled, "Average Car Insurance Cost."
September 5, 2025Brad Greenwood, Dean's Distinguished Professor at George Mason University, co-authors an article for The Conversation about his recently published research in the American Journal of Public Health.
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.
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.