The Costello College of Business at George Mason University is an acknowledged center for global business research.
Faculty take a multidisciplinary approach, with the goal of ensuring that business can be a force for the greater good.
Faculty publish in leading business journals on wide-ranging global business issues, are cited by the press, and are actively engaged in making discoveries to address a wide set of societal and institutional challenges.
Impactful Scholarship
Three pillars define the real-world impact of Costello College of Business thought leadership:
Ensuring Global Futures
Safeguarding our planet and societies from the crises identified in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recent highlights include:
- Are Electric Cars Really Green? mic.com
- CPG Can No Longer Afford to Harm the Planet AdWeek.com
- Supporting the Honey Bee to Make the World a Better Place School of Business News
- Embedding the SDGs into Business Education The PRME Blog
Digital Transformation of Work
Preparing global organizations and professionals for the massive technological changes that are reshaping business.
- Facilitating a Paradigm Shift: An Acquisition Playbook for the Information Age School of Business News
- As Offices Reopen, Hybrid Onsite and Remote Work Becomes Routine SHRM.org
- How to Manage Performance Evaluations in the Work-From-Home Era New York Times
- Employees Are Working An Extra Day In Unpaid Overtime Each Week Forbes.com
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Fostering the creative problem-solving skills needed for success in an increasingly unpredictable world.
- Using Geospatial Technology to Promote Economic Development of Africa School of Business News
- Prince Harry isn't the first famous name in tech, but his role at S.F. startup is rare San Francisco Chronicle
- For $40/Month, Equinox's Variis App Is Now Accessible to All Well+Good
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55,000
Together, the top ten most-cited Costello College of Business scholars have more than 55,000 research citations.
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#81
The Costello College of Business' spot in the UT-Dallas North American Business School Research Rankings.
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17 Costello College of Business professors currently hold editorial positions at academic journals.
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In 2022-2023, Costello College of Business faculty published 20 papers in premier journals.
Costello College of Business Faculty Research
November 19, 2024The 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.
October 22, 2024Under the supervision of Costello professor Derek Horstmeyer, student-driven research insights are raising eyebrows among employers—and readers of major newspapers.
October 8, 2024Not only are retailers failing to retain and redirect business from shuttered physical locations, but their performance elsewhere also suffers as a result.
October 1, 2024Not all organizations measure success in dollars and cents. There are also the purists, whose unswerving integrity may deliver outsized market benefits—if they aren’t fatally misunderstood first.
September 19, 2024Post-Covid complaints about “Zoom fatigue,” work-life imbalance, etc. belie a deeper longing for what was lost in the transition to remote work.
September 4, 2024Thanking someone in advance for something you’re asking them to do increases their motivation and commitment to the task. This savvy managerial technique also raises some tricky ethical questions.
August 27, 2024With the right operational strategy, transitioning from selling products to delivering services can be the right move for profits, people and the planet. Ioannis Bellos, associate professor of information systems and operations management (OM) and MBA Program Director at the Donald G. Costello College of Business, and Hang Ren, associate professor of OM at Costello, have published research exploring how servicization can live up to its massive potential.
August 22, 2024Artificial intelligence can perform peer firm selection—a key task for investors—at least as accurately as well-established alternative algorithms and human experts, according to research by Costello profs Long Chen and Yi Cao.
August 16, 2024Fake trades engineered to juice an exchange’s numbers have been a part of bitcoin exchanges since the beginning, finds a George Mason finance prof.
August 8, 2024In churchgoing counties, financial advisors are more likely to remember their ethical training and resist the temptation to misbehave.
August 6, 2024The economic data on climate and business outcomes paints a picture of profound disruption beneath a placid-seeming surface.
July 22, 2024You can tell a lot about a hedge fund’s quality—and long-term performance—from the market climate in which it was launched. Lin Sun, assistant professor of finance, recently published a paper in Review of Finance that compares hedge funds formed in high-demand, or “hot,” markets to those produced in a “cold” market climate.