Faculty Media Mentions

Getting rid of the “Commanders” and starting fresh with a new name for Washington’s NFL team would help wipe the slate clean after years of controversy and scandal, sports marketing experts say - including Business Foundations Instructor George Perry - in this article for The Washington Examiner.

In light of the Miami Heat and Miami-Dade County terminating their partnerships with FTX after its bankruptcy announcement, Business Foundations Instructor George Perry explains why some smaller sports organizations who bet big on crypto brand partnerships may want to look elsewhere for the next big team-up in this interview with Market Scale.

In this op-ed for the Association for Talent Development, Business Foundations professors Leila Austin, Jackie Brown, and Cameron J. Harris write that the organizational focus on structural change from above, while an important step to meet immediate diversity and equity goals, also needs to address interventions at the individual level to create a truly transformative culture of trust and belonging.

Security Management, a trade publication of the corporate security industry, asked Business Foundations Assistant Professor Jeremy Plotnik to comment on recent issues related to brand reputation stemming from changes at Twitter.

Gap insurance is an optional type of car insurance that covers the “gap” between what a car is worth and what the driver owes on their auto loan or lease if the car is totaled or stolen. Laurie A. Meamber, associate professor of marketing, is quoted as an expert in WalletHub's Gap Insurance Guide.

“Macroeconomic factors like waning consumer demand and absorbed spending pullback is probably going to have an impact on all of retail, and amongst the retail sectors, I think apparel is going to be one of the sectors that is going to get hit the hardest,” said Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation and associate professor of marketing, in an interview with Bisnow.

How Kroger and Albertson's will mesh their approaches to automation is just one of many technology-related questions the grocery chains will need to resolve as they look to merge, according to Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation, in an interview with Grocery Dive.

Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship Director Eric Maribojoc comments on the pros and cons of rent control in a story for Florida's Spectrum News 13.

Business Foundations Professor George Perry told DC News Now the NFL group “is small because they’ve got to be billionaires, basically,” and that they will be checking whether to vet the financial security of any potential owner or owners.

Lack of “fit” is often cited as a key reason why new hires fail in their roles. But Management Professor Sarah Wittman argues in the Harvard Business Review that “fit” doesn’t always stem from incompatibility, but rather can come from a failure to complete the psychological transition from one identity to another.

“Not everybody has the luxury or the ability to take school groups to see the hives and to learn about them,” says Business for a Better World co-director Lisa Gring-Pemble. This was the driving force behind the Hive Alive project, which uses virtual reality to teach local students about bees in an immersive manner.

A number of retail mergers and acquisitions went awry in 2022. So what’s in store for 2023? "If this holiday season doesn’t go well, then you’re probably going to see more talks of mergers and acquisitions,” said Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation, in an interview with Retail Dive.