Benjamin Kessler

Bridging the information gap between HQ and the local level is one of the main challenges for consolidated companies. In a forthcoming paper in Management Science, Barbara Su, assistant professor of accounting at Costello, explores how multi-bank holding companies rely on internal accounting information as a complement to financial performance, to help them make intramural investment decisions.

Technological advancements and the dynamics of the platform economy make rooting out fraud more complicated than it may seem.

Balancing and combining different kinds of intelligence may be even more important than how much you know, or how you think. In a recently published piece, Matthew A. Cronin, professor of management at Costello College of Business at George Mason University, deconstruct intelligence into three modalities, which they label the Scientist, the Artist and the Judge (or “SAJ,” pronounced “sage”).

How employees respond to being under surveillance depends on a number of factors, including how good they are at their jobs.

To please both the planet and shareholders at the same time, firms must travel a triangular path.

A pair of George Mason University marketing professors have unpacked the surprisingly intense and complicated emotional consequences of brand inauthenticity.

Jessica Hoppner, associate professor of marketing at the Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason University, has been named a recipient of Academy of Marketing Research Funding for 2025. 

Managers’ attempts to distract investors from bad news have serious implications for market efficiency.

Meet the newest Costello researchers, and become acquainted with their scholarly profiles.

Illicit massage businesses (IMBs) run by human trafficking rings are rampant in the United States. A George Mason professor has helped build what may be the best AI-driven tool to root them out.