2026 News Stories

At the 2026 annual meeting of the American Real Estate Society, John Y. Campbell of Harvard University was named the recipient of the Michael J. Seiler Behavioral Research Commendation and delivered the keynote address at the awards luncheon. During the address, Dr. Campbell discussed the future of the mortgage markets and incorporated both the “Lock-in” effect and mortgage defaults, two areas of research where Michael J. Seiler has heavily contributed.

Poets&Quants For Undergrads, a prominant news source for undergraduate business education, has released its 11th annual “Best & Brightest Business Majors” feature, honoring 100 of the most accomplished seniors in business-related fields such as marketing, finance, operations, and business administration. This year Chloe Ausburn and Ryan Yin have been selected as part of this prestigious group, representing the Raymond A. Mason School of Business.

Poets&Quants For Undergrads, a prominent news source for undergraduate business education, has released its 11th annual “Best & Brightest Business Majors” feature, honoring 100 of the most accomplished seniors in business-related fields such as marketing, finance, operations, and business administration. This year Chloe Ausburn and Ryan Yin have been selected as part of this prestigious group, representing the Raymond A. Mason School of Business.

William & Mary students now have a chance to explore one of the most important questions in life: What does it really mean to be wise? BUAD 392 Cultivating Wisdom for Life, Business, and Society is a new interdisciplinary course developed through the W. Taylor Reveley III Interdisciplinary Fellows program, co-taught by Michael G. Luchs, J.S. Mack Professor of Business, and Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Jonah Goldwater.

The Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary will mark a significant milestone on April 1 with its first-ever AI Day, an immersive, community-driven event designed to demystify artificial intelligence and explore its growing role in business, education, and the future of work.

Starting in Fall 2026, students entering William & Mary will have an expanded opportunity to engage earlier and more deeply with the nationally ranked Raymond A. Mason School of Business. Through a redesigned Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), students can apply to the program after completing 39 credit hours, often as early as the end of their freshman year, unlocking earlier access to coursework, career preparation, and faculty mentorship.

The Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary has been named the #1 graduate school in the Nation in the 2026–2027 Military Friendly® Schools survey, marking a significant milestone in its ongoing work to support military and veteran students.

The Raymond A. Mason School of Business proudly welcomed its newest members into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society on Friday evening, recognizing an accomplished group of students whose academic excellence places them among the very best in business education.

For more than a decade and a half, the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary has partnered with the United States Army to equip a select group of military officers with advanced management education designed to strengthen the operational effectiveness of the Army and the leadership capabilities of the officers who serve it.

The Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary has received a transformative $1 million gift to establish an endowment in honor of Dennis C. Gibbs ’74—a distinguished alumnus whose life and career were defined by leadership, integrity, and a deep commitment to others. This endowed fund will provide flexible, unrestricted support to meet the evolving needs of the Mason School community, helping to sustain its strength and spirit for generations to come.

When Alexa Mikeska committed to William & Mary, she was stepping into the unknown. The Carlsbad, Calif., native had never been to Virginia and had no connections to the area. What she did have was belief in the program's vision and a willingness to embrace the opportunity to grow — both as a player and as a person.

The student-run Braun Financial Literacy Program at William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business has earned national recognition, taking the grand first prize in Zipcar’s Students with Drive competition. The nationwide award honors student organizations that are creating meaningful change in their communities.

The Raymond A. Mason School of Business and its Academic Innovation team recently hosted the second annual Teaching and Research with Generative AI Sprint (TARGAS II), a two-day faculty-and-student experience designed to rethink higher education for an AI-enabled future.

The Raymond A. Mason School of Business played a central role in William & Mary's designation as a Celonis Academic Center of Excellence for the 2025–26 academic year. The university was named among the global leaders in process mining scholarship and applied learning. The announcement was made at Celosphere, the company's annual international conference held November 3–5 in Munich, Germany, where Professor Monica Tremblay served as a featured panelist.

For students in William & Mary’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program, learning to build sophisticated machine learning models is only part of the equation. Understanding how data operates in the real world, especially in settings where human outcomes are significant, is central to the Raymond A. Mason School of Business experience.