Costello College of Business Faculty Media Mentions

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.” 

“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.

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.

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.

MS in Accounting Director Kevin Jones was interviewed by Accountability Talks with AGA on how important it is to continue your education post college.

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. 

Victoria Grady wrote an article for RealLeaders on individual and organizational change, and the challenges of getting unstuck at work. 

Dean Maury Peiperl was interviewed by The Street on the unionization of Starbucks: he notes that Starbucks' customers are more progressive. 

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. 

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.