February 17, 2022Lauren Lundberg, a George Mason University School of Business MBA student on track to graduate in Spring 2022, talks about how her time at Mason helped put her on Northrop Grumman’s radar and prepared her for working in government contracting.
February 17, 2022Fresh off being announced as recipients of the 2021 Greater Washington GovCon Contractor of the Year (Up to $25 Million), Kreative Technologies’ co-founders and owners, Adnan Karimi and Nazia Karimi, shared some of their lessons learned after growing the company together from the ground up.
February 22, 2022The United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) North America and George Mason University’s Business for a Better World Center in the School of Business are excited to host the PRME North America Biennial Meeting April 21-23 in Arlington, Virginia, USA, just outside Washington, D.C.
February 16, 2022When Lamar Crosby was a student at the School of Business, the Black Alumni Chapter grabbed Crosby’s attention through their annual golf tournament. His participation and interaction during the tournaments was noticed by the Chapter and they contacted him shortly after he graduated, encouraging him to run for office on their board.
January 26, 2022Siddharth Bhattacharya, a professor of information systems at Mason, recently co-conducted the first-ever empirical study on competitive poaching, the strategy of bidding on competitors' keywords.
February 1, 2022Jason Howell, BS Accounting ’97, has written a new book titled Joy of Financial Planning: 7 Strategies for Transforming Your Finances and Reclaiming Your American Dream.
February 15, 2022Research by Gautham Vadakkepatt, associate professor of marketing, finds strong indications that gender equality in advertising and actual outcomes for women are on parallel rising trajectories, in the markets that need it most.
February 2, 2022The combination of two unlikely bedfellows—cryptography, a subfield of computer science, and currency, a topic in economics—is at the heart of the transformative potential of its underlying blockchain technology. But the uniqueness of the pairing can make it very difficult for research professionals in either field to predict, let alone positively influence, blockchain’s future development. Jiasun Li, an assistant professor of finance at Mason, is among an elite group of academics who are bridging the divide by merging relevant concepts from computer science with game theory—a subfield of economics that studies the interactions of decisions made by interdependent economic actors.
February 14, 2022Recent research from Heather Vough, associate professor of management at Mason, argues that gaffes have potential negative consequences that go far beyond an awkward or uncomfortable moment.
February 10, 2022Despite the software industry’s rapid growth and deep pockets, tech companies are still engaged in bare-knuckles battle with cybercriminals. Nirup Menon and Pallab Sanyal's recent research confirms the existence of a willingness-to-pay (WTP) dilemma.