August 20, 2026What is the role of professional judgment and oversight in AI-assisted audits? How is private equity investment altering the management and strategic direction of accounting firms? Can regulators close the tax gap for cryptocurrencies and borderless digital assets and ensure enforcement? The 2026 Accounting Horizons Conference, hosted by the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, provided a platform to examine answers to questions shaping the accounting industry’s future.
June 17, 2026The widely used machine-learning technique known as LASSO relegates smaller market events to an ignored “inactive zone”. How can that be a good thing for ambitious asset traders? Bo Hu, assistant professor of finance, explores the logic (and illogic) behind LASSO’s popularity and power.
May 5, 2026Saudi Arabia is not just "going green”—the Kingdom is rebuilding its economy around sustainability.
April 17, 2026Brian Ngac, assistant dean for centers and FedWriters, Inc. Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow, recently joined Kynan Carver, vice president of cybersecurity at Maximus, to speak at Federal News Network’s AI & Apps: Scaling AI for Innovation and Implementation event. Maximus is a corporate and community partner of the Costello College of Business at George Mason University.
December 20, 2025Writing legislation is no easy task. Policymakers must translate big ideas such as improving climate change or issuing technology regulations into detailed, legally appropriate language. As policymakers strive to work smarter and faster, the use of AI to support policymaking has begun to increase. To what extent can artificial intelligence (AI) help?
December 6, 2025As with any innovative technology, the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are only valuable if one knows how and where to use them. Academic research can play a vital role in finding and validating business use cases that help to justify the large investments of money and resources that AI entails.
March 10, 2026Kumar Mehta, instructional associate professor of information systems and operations management, co-authors an article for AACSB Insight proposing a governance framework for business schools navigating the GenAI revolution titled, "Leading the AI Transition."
March 2, 2026Powered by nSpire AI, Career AI is the new agentic AI tool offered this semester by the Office of Career Services within the Costello College of Business at George Mason University.
February 21, 2026Using a generative AI tool to help with your taxes might be free and quick, but it comes with major risks of making costly mistakes. Here's why
February 10, 2026Don Tapscott, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) and one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society, recently led a town hall-style conversation on identic AI, an emerging era of AI where AI evolves from its use as a tool to an active participant in our lives. Identic AI is the subject of a new book he co-authored with Joseph Bradley, You to the Power of Two: Redefining Human Potential in the Age of Identic AI.
