Costello College of Business News

In fall 2021, Peggy Tsirigotis, accounting instructor at the School of Business, created an interactive game for her accounting students. Her inspiration? Her students playing games on their phone before class began.

As chief global officer of global operations at Marriott International, Erika Alexander often finds herself relying on the skills and knowledge she obtained while studying at the George Mason University School of Business.

At Mason, Student Ambassadors create a link from prospective students to new freshman, answering questions, calming nerves, and sharing lots of advice.

Cheryl Druehl, an operations management professor at Mason as well as the Mason's School of Business associate dean for faculty, has found that unblind contests can foster contestant behaviors that constrain overall innovativeness.

School of Business professor David J. Miller's forthcoming book, Sweating Together: How Peloton Built a Billion-Dollar Venture and Created a Community in a Digital World, combines Miller’s personal story of falling in love with the Peloton brand with strategic lessons taken from the company’s meteoric rise.

Since starting Mason's MBA program this fall, Guillermo Palencia has been working with the Business for a Better World center on its Honey Bee Initiative (HBI), focusing on a pilot project in rural Colombia and developing a self-sustainable social enterprise model for future funding and expansion in South America and beyond.

Sumeet Shrivastava, EMBA ’94, has been dedicated to the success of the School of Business and George Mason University ever since he became a Patriot. Shrivastava, also president of the George Mason University Alumni Association, has established the Shrivastava Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Endowment to recognize student leaders from underrepresented groups who are contributing to diversity and inclusion at Mason.

C. Kat Grimsley, former director of the Masters in Real Estate Development program at Mason, was one of six co-authors and core researchers on a recent U.N. report on affordable housing, in line with United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)’s #Housing2030 initiative.

George Mason University men’s basketball players D’Shawn Schwartz and Blake Buchanan, both School of Business graduate students, say their friendship helps keep them focused on their studies.

Always looking for an edge, Giovanni Rodriguez would scan website after website for scholarships and other opportunities. His persistence paid off when he was announced as the undergraduate recipient for the Emerging Business Leader Award in 2021.