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Costello College of Business News

Costello College of Business News

  • March 17, 2022
    The George Mason University School of Business recently set up a unique admission partnership with the University of Virginia at Wise. The pathway offers students who graduate from UVA-Wise the ability to streamline their applications to the master’s in accounting, master’s in finance, and master’s in management (MSM).
  • March 16, 2022
    Mason’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is hosting the 2022 Spring Container Design Challenge as part of an ongoing partnership with the City of Fairfax Economic Development Authority.
  • March 15, 2022
    Victoria Grady, associate professor of management and program director of the Masters of Science in Management at Mason, has a new book, Stuck: How to WIN at Work by Understanding LOSS, which is the result of years of research and writing with her co-author Patrick McCreesh, an adjunct management professor at Mason. Stuck plumbs an area of psychology known as attachment theory, first developed in the mid-20th century by John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst.
  • March 10, 2022
    The master’s of science in management (MSM) program in George Mason University's School of Business works in close partnership with the School of Business’ Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) to provide MSM students access to an organization intent on nurturing those with entrepreneurial and innovative aspirations.
  • March 10, 2022
    Body George Mason University’s Center for Retail Transformation, part of the School of Business, is working with Microsoft to host a series of informational panels this spring and summer to help students understand how technological innovation is affecting retail businesses.
  • March 9, 2022
    CPA sisters Beth Arnold, BS Business Administration ’80; Lynn Green, BS Accounting ’82; and Martha Bayer, BS Accounting ’85 are all George Mason University School of Business graduates.
  • March 7, 2022
    Josh Oduro, the star forward on Mason’s men’s basketball team finished the regular season as the Atlantic 10 conference’s top scorer (18 points per game), and tied for seventh in rebounding (7.4 per game) and blocked shots (1.7 per game).
  • February 23, 2022
    The Center for Retail Transformation within the School of Business recently held a webinar on autonomous stores, moderated by Center director and associate professor of marketing Gautham Vadakkepatt.
  • February 22, 2022
    The 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 17, 2022
    Lauren 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, 2022
    Fresh 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 16, 2022
    When 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.