Costello College of Business News

Meet Marianne Makhlouf, our MS in Management Program Student Ambassador at the Costello College of Business. A Mason alumna and bilingual in English and Arabic, Marianne loves the culture and diversity at George Mason University.

Meet Bo Galles, our MS in Real Estate Development Student Ambassador, who brings his experience as a retail broker at KLNB, specializing in pad sites and new construction projects. He encourages aspiring candidates to join industry organizations like NAIOP and attend networking events to build valuable connections.

One accounting standard to rule them all might be a less desirable state of affairs than the ‘managed divergence’ that currently exists between U.S.-GAAP and IFRS.

Burned-out auditors are getting dangerously distracted by job postings that offer a glimpse of more appealing professional pathways.

Cody Salenga has been making music since he was a teenager. So when it came time to look for a summer internship, Salenga knew he wanted something in the music industry.

Leaked payroll data may contradict everything you thought you knew about the economic impact of high-skilled legal immigration.

New research suggests there’s at least one group of people applauding the collapse of local journalism in the United States: corrupt politicians.

A George Mason marketing professor is using AI to help organizations gain deeper insights into consumers based on very little information

We know from prior research that savvy investors respond to ESG data. But a pair of finance professors have discovered perhaps the most lucrative wrinkle in this strategy.

The 2008 financial crisis cast a pall of pessimism over veteran CEOs that took three years to lift. David Koo, assistant professor of accounting, has found that memories of past recessions, triggered by recent ones, can weigh on chief executives’ decisions, literally for years.

Representing PricewaterhouseCoopers on Costello’s Accounting Advisory Council as vice council chair, Nicole Stroud has a particular interest in the pipeline of talent entering the profession to not only her firm, but also the profession at large.

During the week of October 28 to November 1, the Costello College of Business celebrated its first naming anniversary and began an annual tradition of providing service to the local community.