Costello College of Business News

When Alicia Herrera was selecting her business concentration at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, she chose management because it felt broad, giving her more flexibility to explore different career options.

A pair of accounting professors at George Mason University’s Songdo (South Korea) campus discovered that CEOs with formative Korean War memories reacted differently to perceptions of downside risk.

With a lifelong love of baking and dual majors in marketing and business analytics from the Costello College of Business, Musa is tackling small business ownership and her education with a cup of creativity, a dash of determination, and a whole helping of heart.

“It just started with me experiencing a problem in our own household,” says Roxie Alsruhe, BS Finance and Marketing ’09.

The inescapable “negotiator’s dilemma”—i.e., whether to take a competitive or cooperative stance—is less vexing if one remembers that the long-term relationship between the counterparties is often more valuable than the stakes of any one negotiation, says George Mason University management professor Einav Hart.

George Mason University management professor David Lucas finds that the rising generation of entrepreneurs are far more likely to build mission-driven businesses than their over-30 counterparts. But the differences don’t end there.

A fully student-led team from the Costello College of Business at George Mason University has advanced to the next round of the Financial Planning Challenge, earning a place among the top eight undergraduate teams in the nation.

In 2020, the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting received its naming gift, two years after the government contracting initiative at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University had officially become a center.

Zhechao Yang, assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Costello College of Business at George Mason University, has helped develop a machine learning framework that can sift through the online buzz to identify the social media posts most likely to drive product purchases.

George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) alumni Matt Hayes, BS Sport Management ’15, MBA ’23, and Mark McCracken, BS ’12, work as members of the Washington Commanders team.

When she saw Northrop Grumman's table at the George Mason University Career Fair, Neha Bandaru figured that any opportunity the company had to offer would be catered to engineering students. However, when she spoke with a Costello College of Business alum about what the aerospace and defense company had on the business side, it opened her eyes to the exciting opportunities available to her.

After his father, Jim, passed away in 2025, Patrick Tierney, BS Management ’01, JD ‘05, gave serious consideration to the best way to honor his memory while also processing his own grief.