Costello Research Recruiting

Auditors with less common first names are more likely to deviate from auditing norms. But is their individualism an asset or a liability?

Management professor Kevin Rockmann’s research shows how collegial, cooperative relationships are a feature, not a bug, of great organizations.

Companies looking to bend reporting rules need to find accountants who will play ball. That’s why job postings can be a reliable indicator of intent.

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.

Burned-out auditors are getting dangerously distracted by job postings that offer a glimpse of more appealing professional pathways.

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

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.

You can spend millions to buy a company for its employees, but how do you know they’ll stay put? Now, AI can predict post-deal turnover with a startling degree of accuracy. In a recently working paper, Jingyuan Yang, an information systems and operations management professor at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, discovers how to efficiently predict employee turnover using an innovative AI-driven approach

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

A Mason professor unpacks the complex, nuanced impact of the “revolving door” between industry and regulators in the accounting world.