Costello College of Business Faculty Media Mentions

If you utilize something without paying it for it, like a park, it makes you a free rider. And finding solutions to sustain these resources is harder than you think. Professor of marketing Tarun Kushwaha says "you can never have a completely free public good that is sustainable in the future forever. It eventually will fail" in an interview with Business Insider. 

Victoria Grady wrote an article for RealLeaders on individual and organizational change, and the challenges of getting unstuck at work. 

Dean Maury Peiperl was interviewed by The Street on the unionization of Starbucks: he notes that Starbucks' customers are more progressive. 

Shopping for car insurance can often be difficult, Tarun Kushwaha, professor of marketing, says that "customers need to examine their willingness to pay (monthly premium), risk averseness (probability of tickets/accidents), and sensitivity to service..." in an interview with WalletHub. 

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer, along with finance students Patrick McManus and Alex Oliver, wrote an article for the CFA Institute, highlighting their research that despite retail investors having greater access to diversification tools (i.e. emerging market and frontier market ETFs), diversification in a global sense has actually gotten more difficult (or less beneficial) over the past 40 years.

Sean Spence, an adjunct finance professor, was interviewed by WalletHub on the ins and outs of 0% APR credit cards.

Rebecca Howick, interim director for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, was interviewed by Connection in an article titled, What Goes into Being an Entrepreneur? Howick shared information about The Depot, the Center's pop-up retail farm stand that introduces students to the ins and outs of business. 

Derek Horstmeyer, finance professor, was interviewed by ETF.com on a recent FINRA proposal. Horstmeyer noted that "regulators are having to play catch-up with rapid growth of options exposure among the retail investor class, whether those options are embedded in ETFs or contracts traded on Robinhood and similar apps."

Finance Professor Derek Horstmeyer, along with finance students Cameron Hair and Georgi Minov, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on how they were able to show that it is central bank synchronization (when all banks are going up in their interest rates, or when all banks are going down in their rates) that yields the most extreme results for our markets.

Emily Murphy, former administrator of the General Services Administration and current senior fellow at the George Mason University Business School’s Center for Government Contracting, who serves as a partner of CEO Coaching International, has published her first article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program.

GovCon Expert Emily Murphy, who is also a three-time Wash100 Award recipient, provided a breakdown of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, including a brief rundown of its 40-year history as well as debunking a handful of the most common myths regarding the program.