Cryptocurrency’s surprising transparency advantage

Despite the fears of regulators and skittish investors, clear and accurate signals of cryptocurrency quality may be hidden in plain sight.

Politically conservative CEOs think differently about transparency

As a purely voluntary form of disclosure, management earnings forecasts may tell us as much about the managers themselves as about their company’s financial future.

Can non-partisan news survive in the online echo chamber?

Even famously neutral news organizations are not immune to the pressure to compete for clicks in the increasingly partisan online marketplace.

“Loss avoidance” is all the rage in private equity

Private equity is known as a “high-risk, high-return” asset class.

When expressing gratitude, it’s all in the timing

Thanks so much for reading this article all the way to the end! No, that wasn’t an editorial error.

Research Highlights

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:

Digital Transformation of Work

Preparing global organizations and professionals for the massive technological changes that are reshaping business. 

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Fostering the creative problem-solving skills needed for success in an increasingly unpredictable world. 

 

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Together, the top ten most-cited Costello College of Business scholars have more than 55,000 research citations.
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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

  • 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 16, 2024
    Fake 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, 2024
    In churchgoing counties, financial advisors are more likely to remember their ethical training and resist the temptation to misbehave.
  • August 6, 2024
    The economic data on climate and business outcomes paints a picture of profound disruption beneath a placid-seeming surface.
  • July 22, 2024
    You 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.
  • 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.
  • June 17, 2024
    George Mason senior associate dean and associate professor of accounting, JK Aier's prizewinning paper shows how firms can benefit from executive roles that strategically bridge the board and management.
  • June 4, 2024
    The controversy about biased policing seems to draw endless fuel from race-based differences in public perception. Simply put, the vast majority of White citizens in the United States believe the police are doing a good job, including on issues of racial equality, while a similar percentage of Black citizens hold the opposite opinion. Brad Greenwood, professor of information systems and operations management, researches how digital technologies are bringing unprecedented transparency to police practices.
  • May 30, 2024
    The Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting is working with the federal government to reform the military’s Cold War-era processes for tech development.
  • May 15, 2024
    The SEC’s unique treatment of companies that opt into public reporting shows that lighter-touch regulation can sometimes be just as effective. Associate professor of accounting Bret Johnson’s recent paper looks at how the SEC handles the added responsibility of reviewing voluntary filings.
  • May 10, 2024
    George Mason researchers Nirup Menon and Brian Ngac recently won a two-year award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to create unique experiential learning opportunities and workshops designed to enhance cybersecurity education and workforce development.
  • April 29, 2024
    The executive director of George Mason’s government contracting research center highlights “agile acquisition” as the key to beefing up national defense.

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