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:
Costello College of Business Faculty Research
- May 26, 2020“Blockchain is a kind of distributed ledger that could change how business activities are organized,” says Jiasun Li, assistant professor of finance. “It essentially provides an alternative way for economic activities to be conducted.”
- May 21, 2020Ioannis Bellos, associate professor of information systems and operations management, began researching service design as a PhD student at Georgia Tech.
- May 5, 2020User reviews often comprise two parts, the starred rating and the review. Jingyuan Yang, assistant professor of information systems and operations management, noticed a problem in that system.
- April 22, 2020To overcome potential racial bias, physicians should use digitized protocols when making decisions about patient care, according to a research paper co-written by Brad Greenwood, an associate professor of Information Systems and Operations Management in George Mason University’s School of Business.
- April 15, 2020“We all approach the world with knowledge that is infused by our own values,” says Matthew Cronin, co-author (with Laurie R. Weingart) of the research study Conflict Across Representational Gaps: Threats to and Opportunities for Improved Communication.
- November 15, 2019In his research, Hang Ren, an assistant professor of information systems and operations management, is investigating whether a 2012 federal regulation called the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)—intended to improve patient care in hospitals by targeting readmissions for six targeted diagnoses or treatments—is fundamentally flawed in reducing readmissions or improving patient care.
- November 4, 2019Brett Josephson, assistant professor of marketing, has studied government contracting since he was a PhD student. In recently published research, Josephson—together with Ju-Yeon Lee, assistant professor of marketing at Iowa State University, and Babu John Mariadoss and Jean Lynn Johnson, associate professors of marketing at Washington State University—recommended that companies focus on specialization.