Costello Research Evaluating Performance

Two Costello College of Business accounting professors are exploring how inherent personal traits may influence business success—and their early findings will gratify the left-handed among us.

Organizational coherence and trust begin with the stories that individual employees tell themselves about their complex identities.

Leaked payroll data may contradict everything you thought you knew about the economic impact of high-skilled legal immigration.

The 2008 financial crisis cast a pall of pessimism over veteran CEOs that took three years to lift. David Koo, assistant professor of accounting, has found that memories of past recessions, triggered by recent ones, can weigh on chief executives’ decisions, literally for years.

If you’re nervous about negotiating a starting salary, that’s because your mind is playing not one, but two tricks on you. A George Mason management prof explains how to undo the mental spell.

Sarah Wittman, an assistant professor of management at Mason's Costello College of Business, unpacks this complex problem and proposes some potential research-based solutions.

Deciding whether to reveal someone else’s secrets isn’t just a moral dilemma. It can also have a serious impact on your reputation. Costello College of Business assistant professor of management, Einav Hart, explores this issue in a series of studies.

No matter who you are, feeling threatened in your identity is bad for your well-being—and your career.

With the rise of online learning, cheating has become easier than ever. And perhaps more prevalent as well, suggests one Mason accounting professor.

Online technology has made real-time performance feedback a workplace reality. But a pair of Mason professors have found out about a major bias in the system.