Costello College of Business News

George Mason University announced today that the University will work with Microsoft as a founding sponsor of thought leadership and event activity for the Center for Retail Transformation housed within the university’s School of Business.

The combination of two unlikely bedfellows—cryptography, a subfield of computer science, and currency, a topic in economics—is at the heart of the transformative potential of its underlying blockchain technology. But the uniqueness of the pairing can make it very difficult for research professionals in either field to predict, let alone positively influence, blockchain’s future development. Jiasun Li, an assistant professor of finance at Mason, is among an elite group of academics who are bridging the divide by merging relevant concepts from computer science with game theory—a subfield of economics that studies the interactions of decisions made by interdependent economic actors.

Jason Howell, BS Accounting ’97, has written a new book titled Joy of Financial Planning: 7 Strategies for Transforming Your Finances and Reclaiming Your American Dream.

Siddharth Bhattacharya, a professor of information systems at Mason, recently co-conducted the first-ever empirical study on competitive poaching, the strategy of bidding on competitors' keywords.

George Mason University School of Business online MBA Program jumped 25 spots in two years with a new ranking of #98 nationally for Best Online MBA (#70 among public universities) from U.S.

In fall 2021, Peggy Tsirigotis, accounting instructor at the School of Business, created an interactive game for her accounting students. Her inspiration? Her students playing games on their phone before class began.

As chief global officer of global operations at Marriott International, Erika Alexander often finds herself relying on the skills and knowledge she obtained while studying at the George Mason University School of Business.

At Mason, Student Ambassadors create a link from prospective students to new freshman, answering questions, calming nerves, and sharing lots of advice.

George Mason University men’s basketball players D’Shawn Schwartz and Blake Buchanan, both School of Business graduate students, say their friendship helps keep them focused on their studies.

Cheryl Druehl, an operations management professor at Mason as well as the Mason's School of Business associate dean for faculty, has found that unblind contests can foster contestant behaviors that constrain overall innovativeness.

School of Business professor David J. Miller's forthcoming book, Sweating Together: How Peloton Built a Billion-Dollar Venture and Created a Community in a Digital World, combines Miller’s personal story of falling in love with the Peloton brand with strategic lessons taken from the company’s meteoric rise.

Since starting Mason's MBA program this fall, Guillermo Palencia has been working with the Business for a Better World center on its Honey Bee Initiative (HBI), focusing on a pilot project in rural Colombia and developing a self-sustainable social enterprise model for future funding and expansion in South America and beyond.