Costello Research Competitive Strategy

Boards with higher social capital enjoy more market freedom to engage in potentially risky strategic alliances — to the ultimate benefit of their firms.

It’s one thing to be a force for good behind the scenes. Having consumers reward you for it, however, depends upon a unique combination of elements.

A Costello College of Business professor’s 2019 academic paper was one of the first to analyze the unique market features of the federal government contracting ecosystem.

With the right operational strategy, transitioning from selling products to delivering services can be the right move for profits, people and the planet. Ioannis Bellos, associate professor of information systems and operations management (OM)  and MBA Program Director at the Donald G. Costello College of Business, and Hang Ren, associate professor of OM at Costello, have published research exploring how servicization can live up to its massive potential. 

The executive director of George Mason’s government contracting research center highlights “agile acquisition” as the key to beefing up national defense.

To stay competitive in the war for talent, tech companies must weigh secrecy against specificity when crafting job ads. Are they disclosing too much?

Even famously neutral news organizations are not immune to the pressure to compete for clicks in the increasingly partisan online marketplace.

When government contractors merge, comparing their customers can predict a lot about how investors will respond to the deal.

A new "mega-study" consisting of dozens of simultaneous, independently designed experiments shows that competitions have no automatic impact on our morality.

Not all pharmaceutical companies are equally well-suited to surf the sea change that’s happening in healthcare.