Costello College of Business Faculty Media Mentions

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.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting was interviewed by WIRED on Google and its relationship with the Pentagon, and “expects multi-cloud contracts to become common as federal cloud spending grows.”

How does cryptocurrency relate to Wall Street? Sarah Manski, assistant professor, says “The entire global economy is moving towards decentralization. The fact that the SEC didn’t raise any objections bodes well for future innovation in the cryptocurrency space,” in an interview with Cryptopress.

“The goal of a supply chain is to get the right products to the right place at the right time in the right condition. If there’s a disruption, one of those things isn’t happening,” says Cheryl Druehl, associate dean of faculty, in an interview with CNBC.

Executive Director of the Center of Government Contracting Jerry McGinn and Eric Lofgren, research fellow at the Center of Government Contracting, were interviewed by FCW on the DOD using pilot programs “focused on data-intensive capabilities.”

Alizabeth Brady (MBA ’17) was a Peace Corps Rural Health and Sanitation volunteer in a small town in Paraguay. When she joined the Peace Corps, she had her graduate degree and lots of theoretical knowledge of Latin American culture, politics, language, and demographics.