Costello College of Business Faculty Research

How employees respond to being under surveillance depends on a number of factors, including how good they are at their jobs.

Long Chen, accounting area chair, and Yi Cao, assistant professor of accounting, contribute an article to Harvard Business Review about how managers need to "twice-groom" their public information as AI models generate meaningful insights at surprising scale and speed, in an article titled, "Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI."

How does the PCAOB, which oversees corporate audits, select targets for inspection? A George Mason University accounting professor built a model to help capture the process.

To please both the planet and shareholders at the same time, firms must travel a triangular path.

A pair of George Mason University marketing professors have unpacked the surprisingly intense and complicated emotional consequences of brand inauthenticity.

Rising rivalry between the U.S. and China is reshaping corporate decisions on sourcing, production, and investment.

Air quality standards do more than reduce pollution for noncompliant counties; they increase the cost of funding public infrastructure like schools, hospitals, and roads.

It’s no surprise that short-selling carries heavy weight on Wall Street. But next to nothing has been known about the agent lenders from whom short-sellers borrow their shares—until now.

Jessica Hoppner, associate professor of marketing at the Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason University, has been named a recipient of Academy of Marketing Research Funding for 2025. 

Managers’ attempts to distract investors from bad news have serious implications for market efficiency.