Costello College of Business Faculty Media Mentions

 Brad Swanson, adjunct faculty member of finance, wrote an op-ed for Impact Alpha on Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business and a key member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, was officially presented with his 2022 Wash100 Award.

Gautham Vadakkepatt, executive director of the Center for Retail Transformation, was interviewed by Rethink Retail to share his 4 essential approaches to sustainability demands.

After the tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, firearm stock prices have increased says Brad Greenwood, associate professor of ISOM, in an op-ed for The Conversation. “As of the close of trading on May 31, 2022, the stock price of weapons-maker Sturm Ruger was up more than 6.6% since May 23, the day before the shooting.”

Dean Maury Peiperl discusses the seven principles for making responsible business leadership effective in EFMD GlobalFocus. “Looking forward – and indeed, looking at history – the best societal business leaders will be masters of coalition-building and the contradictions of “coopetition” (i.e. cooperation with rivals),” says Peiperl.

Lisa Gring-Pemble, co-executive director of the Business for a Better World Center, was interviewed by Connection on The Honey Bee Initiative adding a new apiary to Laurel Hill Park. 

Defense News Commentary authors Daniel Fata and Jerry McGinn detail how "maintaining robust foreign suppliers through a 'Buy Allied' approach is essential for the American economy to remain strong and will help reduce dependencies on Chinese sources."

Having a team where more than one gender is represented is always something that companies should strive for. “In business, you need diverse points of view, you need the benefit of different ways of looking at the world, and I will say I have had better learnings,” Dean Maury Peiperl says an interview with SHESKILLZGLOBAL.

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on how negative real interests encourage risk taking by investors for the first half of a negative interest rate cycle, and how this reverses in the latter half of the cycle.

Sometimes businesses will hijack a competitor’s ad keywords to gain new customers. Siddharth Bhattacharya, assistant professor of information systems and operations management, has written an article for Harvard Business Review on a study he has done, along with coauthors Jing Gong and Sunil Wattal, on competitive poaching.