Costello College of Business News

Before he began studying accounting at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, Khaled Alkurd had spent years on the operations side of a small business.

Companies’ cost of capital rises in tandem with their supply chain risk, to the tune of $300,000 per year on average, according to new research co-authored by Lei Gao, Costello finance professor.

Imagine if just being kinder could bring your company greater profits. Seems simple enough. But can it be measured? Forbes recently published America’s Kindest Companies List. Created by Brett Josephson, associate professor of marketing at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, the list rates public companies in the United States on employee experience, structural inclusion, and customer treatment.

The imperative to read circumstances for what they are and to adapt and innovate appropriately is a key contributor to success. This is the case for people who do business with the U.S. government. Businesses succeed in federal government contracting by outperforming their competition in alignment with the customer. The customer has changed meaningfully over the past two years, and the trajectory exists for the direction of this change to continue.

Research by the Costello College of Business at George Mason University Ranks 50 Public Companies

On the evening of Thursday, October 29, the Costello College of Business at George Mason University formally celebrated the naming of the Anil and Anupama Sharma Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Each month, the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting highlights federal acquisition policy signals GovCon practitioners should not miss. This is a practical readout on how policy movement may affect the way agencies buy, how contractors compete, and where acquisition judgment matters.

In our digitally distracted world, carefully crafted marketing messages could easily be drowned out by all the noise. Siddharth Bhattacharya, professor of information systems and operations management at Costello, partnered with a peer-to-peer lending platform to discover which kinds of messages encouraged investors to risk their capital, and which fell flat.

Shaped by acquisition reform, fiscal instability, and numerous other forces, the federal acquisition market is changing at an increasingly rapid pace, making conditions more dynamic and less predictable for contractors, who are being forced to reexamine and evolve their organizational structures, practices, and operating models or risk becoming ineffective. 

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.