- January 7, 2025
One accounting standard to rule them all might be a less desirable state of affairs than the ‘managed divergence’ that currently exists between U.S.-GAAP and IFRS.
- November 26, 2024
New research suggests there’s at least one group of people applauding the collapse of local journalism in the United States: corrupt politicians.
- November 19, 2024
The 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 14, 2024
Xinyi Li comes to Costello College of Business with an academic publication under her belt, as well as published research in China.
- September 19, 2024
Post-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, 2024
Thanking 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 22, 2024
Artificial 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 9, 2024
As George Mason doctoral student Jericho McLeod reviewed literature on disease transmission as part of his PhD work, he and George Mason professor Eduardo López noticed a gap in the models and now seek to correct it.
- August 6, 2024
The economic data on climate and business outcomes paints a picture of profound disruption beneath a placid-seeming surface.
- July 16, 2024
If you’re nervous about negotiating a starting salary, that’s because your mind is playing not one, but two tricks on you. A George Mason management prof explains how to undo the mental spell.