Fisher offers one of the most opportunistic entrepreneurship educational and outreach programs in the world integrating state-of-the-art educational programs with economic development strategies to retain the best talent, create quality jobs and sustain economic growth and vitality.

Learn more about the Center for Entrepreneurship.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and one of only 31 such centers nationwide, Fisher's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) provides a supportive framework for global teaching, outreach and research initiatives.

CIBER helps companies grow their global network, skills and profit through the TARGET (To Aim and Realize Global Expansion Together) program, hosts an annual international case challenge bringing teams of undergraduate students from around the world to Fisher's campus each year, and hosts the Distinguished International Speaker Series.

CIBER also manages Fisher's more than 30 student exchange partnerships with top business schools around the world, supports language learning for students and coordinates the field study components of the Emerging Marketing Field Study and Micro Enterprise courses and the Elective Treks program.

Learn more about the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

Fisher's Center for Operational Excellence brings continuous improvement to the forefront for companies, providing programs focused on excellence in operations strategy and great business performance.

This unique and successful partnership of business leaders and Fisher faculty provides programs focused on innovation, supply chain management, leadership and continuous improvement and is a forum for sharing ideas, processes and experiences.

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As global corporate players demand more of their leaders, this center — the first of its kind in the United States — helps firms improve their decision making and implementation through optimization of people, process and technology. Strategic worldwide alliances support the center's mission and stakeholder community.

Learn more about the Center for Business Performance Management.

Fisher's Center for Real Estate Education and Research brings real estate practice and theory to business education, partnering with real estate practitioners, faculty and students to prompt dialogue on real estate issues, establish mentorship opportunities and provide a forum for cutting-edge research for the real estate industry.

Learn more about the Center for Real Estate Education and Research.

This center promotes high-quality research in financial economics at Ohio State, dedicated to supporting junior and senior faculty.

Learn more about the Charles A. Dice Center for Financial Economics.

With the leadership of Fisher researchers and corporate executives, The Global Supply Chain Forum (GSCF) has a global mission to change how executives view supply chain management. The GSCF supply chain management model stresses relationship management and eight cross-functional and cross-firm processes. It is not a business function but rather a new Business Model.

Seminars are designed for executives interested in competing through relationship management and cross-functional integration. Offered through Fisher's top-ranked Executive Education program, seminars have been offered in North and South America, Australasia, Asia and Europe.

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The Initiative for Managing Services focuses on co-creating tangible benefits to our members improve their businesses by connecting them in meaningful ways to services research, education, and business application.

The partnerships formed among our members and with the wide range of resources at Ohio State offer fresh insights and innovative ideas to increase the productivity of organizations, create customer loyalty, develop a brand, win new business, and maximize revenue opportunities.

Learn more about the Initiative for Managing Services.

Fisher College of Business and GE Capital have entered into a multi-year partnership to form the National Center for the Middle Market. The first of its kind in the nation and housed at Fisher, the center is dedicated to exploring the middle market economy and helping drive its growth, engaging students in middle market opportunities, and providing training and networking opportunities to middle market executives.

Learn more about the National Center for the Middle Market.

The Nationwide Center for Advanced Customer Insights (NCACI) is a marketing research center developed as a partnership between Nationwide Insurance Company, The Ohio State University and Fisher College of Business.

The center conducts insurance and financial product marketing research using state-of-the-art predictive modeling, data mining and advanced analytical techniques that improve Nationwide's understanding of consumer behavior and purchasing patterns.

The center manages both applied business projects involving the application of existing theory, and methodologies and seminal research projects involving the development of new theories to solve specific marketing problems.

Learn more about the Nationwide Center for Advanced Customer Insights.

The Innovation Initiative at the The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business is a multi-faceted program focused on education, training, consulting services and outreach focused on the practice of top-line growth through the utilization of a consumer-centered, collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach to the creation of new products, services, and processes.

Learn more about the Innovation Initiative.