Costello College of Business Faculty Media Mentions

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.

Businesses that don’t have poison pill defenses “written into their charter tend to earn excess returns.” Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, says in Business Insider that “this is because since they are exposed to market discipline (threat of takeover), management acts in the best interest of the shareholders.”

“We worked to identify the practices that acquisition professionals and their industry counterparts can use now to innovate, iterate, scale, and field effective military capabilities for United States forces,” notes Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting, in an interview with ExecutiveGov on the Center’s new playbook on the defense acquisition system.

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, was interviewed by the Financial Times on ETFs and how they have been taking excess risks.

On addressing how to deal with your colleagues’ annoying habits or quirks Suzanne de Janasz, professor of management, says to “use phrases like, ‘Have you noticed?’ or ‘What’s your take?’” so the dialogue can be reframed as a “a joint problem-solving exercise,” in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

Steve Pilloff, associate professor of finance, was interviewed by WalletHub on what to look for from a car insurance company compared to its competitors.

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.