Faculty Media Mentions

Some 29% of employees quit within a month of their first promotion. Victoria Grady, associate professor of management, talks to HR Brew about what HR can do to retain these employees.

RetailWire cited recent research from Lei Gao, associate professor of finance at George Mason University's School of Business, found that companies with a larger-than-average age difference between the CEO and other C-suite executives are more innovative on the whole.

Former director of the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship Eric Maribojoc wrote an op-ed for Higher Ed Dive on what colleges can do to address the affordable housing crisis.

Associate Professor of Management Heather Vough appeared on the Academic Minute podcast to discuss the growing field of entrepreneurship education and how it could play a critical role in helping entrepreneurs correctly identify themselves.

Associate Marketing Professor Laurie A. Meamber gives her expert opinion in WalletHub's Best Credit Cards for Restaurants feature.

The premise of isolating a particular investment trait to outperform the market may have seemed like a good idea, but the data say something else according to Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer and finance students John Walton and Ben Korhnak in an article for the Wall Street Journal.

"If an academic spends years preparing a paper and nobody reads it, does it make a difference in the world? No. That’s why we must change how we write," says Management Professor Kevin Rockmann in an article for AACSB Insights.

Passion is a state of mind that can’t be objectively measured, yet many bosses believe they can spot a passionate employee, writes Associate Professor of Management Heather Vough in an article for Fast Company.

Associate Professor of Finance Lei Gao was quoted in a Virginia Business article about top CEOs seeing flat pay growth in 2022.

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer and Kevin Li, CFA, explored how major performance metrics correlate and whether their correlations changed over time in an article for CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor blog.

Associate Professor of Management Heather Vough's research into how a focus on passion in creative professions poses risks for employees was covered in Great Place to Work.

Findings from Assistant Professor of Accounting Yi Cao's research paper "Executives vs. Chatbots: Unmasking Insights through Human-AI Differences in Earnings Conference Q&A" were covered in The Financial Times.