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Our faculty are sought out by the media for their expertise on a variety of topics.
Here's the latest:
- January 30, 2022"To promote a well-functioning financial market, policymakers need to encourage short interest to come back through relaxing short sale restrictions...” says Derek Horstmeyer, finance professor, in an op-ed for the International Business Times.
- January 27, 2022George Perry, business foundations instructor, was interviewed by Reese Waters last week on the Washington Football Team's impending renaming.
- January 25, 2022“As online sales increase, the return rate has also increased significantly, and I don’t think it’s a secondary problem anymore,” says Mehmet Altug, associate professor of ISOM, in an interview with CNBC.
- January 24, 2022Social skills have taken a hit during COVID-19, and Heather Vough, associate professor of management, says “After so much social distancing, mask-wearing and isolation from colleagues, it's natural to be a little rusty on the interpersonal niceties,” in an article she wrote for HR Dive.
- January 20, 2022Sean Spence, adjunct professor of finance, offers his advice on bundling auto and home insurance together.
- January 20, 2022Sean Spence, adjunct professor of finance, states there are several factors that go into why auto insurance prices are going up.
- January 19, 2022With technology changing how we shop, Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation, notes that companies should utilize automation “and use our talented workforce in a context that actually adds value to the company.”
- January 18, 2022Our Honey Bee Initiative and Mason’s new Forensic Science Research and Training Laboratory are partnering together “to see if the honey produced by bees after feeding on flowers can help them better locate missing persons.”
- January 10, 2022Senior finance students Ying Liu and Amber Wilkins, along with finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer wrote an article for the CFA Institute on the validity of the Fama-French 5 factors over time.
- January 10, 2022Alumnus John Sabo, an associate broker at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty recently closed the sale of a building off of Jermantown Road in Fairfax, Virginia.
- January 10, 2022Working for a smaller company allows you to make “decisions with the company management on business strategy.
- January 8, 2022Kevin Mocknick, who is the student vice president of the Risk Committee for the Montano Student Investment Fund, and Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on how the January effect has completely reversed in stock markets, but is still present in the bond market.