Costello College of Business Faculty Media Mentions

“The pandemic gave rise to a huge increase in both the price of for-sale housing and rents of rental housing,” says Eric Maribojoc, executive director of the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship, in an interview with Washington Business Journal.

Because of shortages, “smaller retailers might also see more people visit their stores or websites seeking substitutes or alternatives for gifts, [which means], there is an increased opportunity for smaller retailers to win over customers,” Gautham Vadakkepatt notes in an interview with Loudoun Now.

Sarah Manski, assistant professor, was interviewed on “how cryptocurrency can act as a means for global social change” for Nasdaq.

"In contrast to individual companies enforcing vaccine mandates within their company, government-directed vaccine mandates are beneficial in that they take this decision out of the hands of the retailer and, to a certain extent, level the playing field across retailers," says Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation, in an interview with Retail Dive.

Stadiums that can become are multi-purpose venues are “investments that brands are willing to make because of the exposure involved,” says George Perry, Business Foundations instructor, in an interview with MarketScale.

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, says that the downside of ETF funds are “that because they trade continuously throughout the day, this encourages investors to trade too frequently. This leads to excess fees, short term capital gains and losses due to trying to time the market.”

Remote working has increased, but how has that affected company culture? Kevin Rockmann, professor of management says, “A lazy solution is to jump to an in-between model and try to make everybody happy: the average level of dissatisfaction [with that approach] will be high.”

Brad Greenwood, an associate professor of ISOM, co-authored with Mitchell Zamoff of the University of Minnesota and Gordon Burtch of Boston University, new research discovered NYPD body cameras have decreased complaints and arrests.

The pandemic has changed the work landscape, many employees are resigning or asking for better pay. Victoria Grady, director of the MS in Management program, says that “the labor market has changed” in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Center for Government Contracting has won a contract to help the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering review the contracting activities of DARPA. Center Executive Director Jerry McGinn appeared on the Federal News Network podcast to discuss the contract.