Faculty Media Mentions

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Our faculty are sought out by the media for their expertise on a variety of topics. 

Here's the latest:

  • May 2, 2022
    “We worked to identify the practices that acquisition professionals and their industry counterparts can use now to innovate, iterate, scale, and field effective military capabilities for United States forces,” notes Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting, in an interview with ExecutiveGov on the Center’s new playbook on the defense acquisition system.
  • May 2, 2022
    On addressing how to deal with your colleagues’ annoying habits or quirks Suzanne de Janasz, professor of management, says to “use phrases like, ‘Have you noticed?’ or ‘What’s your take?’” so the dialogue can be reframed as a “a joint problem-solving exercise,” in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
  • April 28, 2022
    When acquiring a new company, it can be tricky removing members of the current board. In an interview with Business Insider, Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, “Let's say there's nine board members on the board. Only three come up for election every year. So if you want to take over the whole board, it's going to take you three years.” 
  • April 27, 2022
    Steve Pilloff, associate professor of finance, was interviewed by WalletHub on what to look for from a car insurance company compared to its competitors.
  • April 25, 2022
    “I think Amazon is pretty constructive at a lot of what it does, including how it tries to support its employees,” Dean Maury Peiperl says on Amazon's labor union movement in an interview with The Verge.
  • April 25, 2022
    Jason Howell, an adjunct finance and accounting professor, was interviewed by Government Executive on Financial Literacy Month and how increase your financial literacy in Government Executive.
  • April 21, 2022
    Building more homes won’t solve the housing crisis, and Executive Director of the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship Eric Maribojoc says “If a lot of the new supply is priced beyond the reach of the average person that's trying to buy a house, the problem lingers even though there's more supply in the market,” in an interview with The Street.
  • April 18, 2022
    If you utilize something without paying it for it, like a park, it makes you a free rider. And finding solutions to sustain these resources is harder than you think. Professor of marketing Tarun Kushwaha says "you can never have a completely free public good that is sustainable in the future forever. It eventually will fail" in an interview with Business Insider. 
  • April 15, 2022
    Dean Maury Peiperl was interviewed by The Street on the unionization of Starbucks: he notes that Starbucks' customers are more progressive. 
  • April 14, 2022
    Shopping for car insurance can often be difficult, Tarun Kushwaha, professor of marketing, says that "customers need to examine their willingness to pay (monthly premium), risk averseness (probability of tickets/accidents), and sensitivity to service..." in an interview with WalletHub. 
  • April 12, 2022
    Rebecca Howick, interim director for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, was interviewed by Connection in an article titled, What Goes into Being an Entrepreneur? Howick shared information about The Depot, the Center's pop-up retail farm stand that introduces students to the ins and outs of business. 
  • April 11, 2022
    Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer, along with finance students Patrick McManus and Alex Oliver, wrote an article for the CFA Institute, highlighting their research that despite retail investors having greater access to diversification tools (i.e. emerging market and frontier market ETFs), diversification in a global sense has actually gotten more difficult (or less beneficial) over the past 40 years.