Second
Annual Fisher 5K a Resounding Success

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The second annual Fisher 5k and One-Mile Fun Walk took place Sunday,
April 17. With more than 200 participants, the event generated more
than $4,000 for the Children's Hunger Alliance. Participants included
more than 30 Fisher students, staff and faculty. The top finishers
from Fisher included the following:
Male:
- David Friedrich, first-year, full-time MBA
- Ian Schmidt, first-year, full-time MBA
- Adolfo Loustaunau, part-time MBA
Female:
- Jennifer Seeley, second-year, full-time MBA
- Peg Pennington, senior lecturer, Management Sciences
- Suzanne Krohn, second-year, full-time MBA
FisherServes hosted the event. In-kind donations were received from
many area businesses, including: Wild Oats, Giant Eagle, Denise's
Homemade Ice Cream, Coca-Cola, David Babner from John Bingham Racing,
the Kroger Co., XS Energy Drink, Nabisco, OSU Recreation and Sports,
Runner's World, Mitchell's Steakhouse, OSU Traffic and Parking and
Chad Hoffman. Advanced Drainage Systems was the corporate sponsor
for the fundraiser.
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Arya
Featured in Fisher Thought Leaders Series
Anil
Arya, professor of accounting and MIS and John J. Gerlach
chair in accounting will speak on "Incentive Issues in Capital
Budgeting" on Friday, April 29, at 8:30 a.m. in 265 Gerlach
Hall as part of the Fisher Thought Leaders and Sander Flaum Speaker
Series. Arya's areas of expertise include management control, systems
accounting and information economics. His work has been recognized
by top industry publications and journals including, Journal of
Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research,
among others. Arya teaches in the MBA, MAcc, Undergraduate Honors,
and the PhD Accounting programs.
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Quigley
to Speak on 'Age of Accountability'
Jim Quigley, CEO, Deloitte & Touche
USA LLP, will speak on Friday, May 13 at 8:30 a.m. as part of the
Sander Flaum Speaker Series. Quigley joined Deloitte 30 years ago
after graduating from Utah State University. Quigley is an active
member in many prestigious associations, including the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, the Economic Club of New York and
the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of New York. He will
speak on what he calls the "New Age of Accountability."
Quigley states that the heart of this new age is principled leadership
and a values-based approach to individual action.
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'Spectacular'
Event for Entrepreneurs
On
May 7, the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Business Builders Club
will host the 2005 Entrepreneurship Spectacular. Attendees will have
the chance to learn from some of the most accomplished entrepreneurs,
attorneys, accountants, venture capitalists and professors in the
country. Past speakers have included Michael Dell, Jim Grote and Jim
Tressel. The 2005 keynote speaker is Rhett Ricart of Ricart Ford.
The seminar will include refreshments. Registration is free, but limited.
For more information and to register, visit www.entrepreneurship.osu.edu
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Faculty,
Staff and PhD
April 29, 2005
Dominique (Mike) Hannsens, professor at University of California at
Los Angeles, will speak on "Sales Response, Customer Equity and
the Marketing Mix" as part of the Department of Marketing and
Logistics Research Colloquium Series at 10:30 a.m. in 500A Fisher
Hall.
April 29, 2005
Christian Leuz, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will
present his paper titled"Why Do Firms Go Dark? Causes and Economic
Consequences of Voluntary SEC Deregistrations" as part of The
Stephen A. Buser Colloquium Series in Financial Economics at 10:30
a.m. in 800 Fisher Hall.
April 29, 2005
Yuji Ijiri, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will present
his paper titled "Moral Hazard Depicted in Markov Processes with
Strategy Options" as part of the Thomas J. Burns Research Colloquium
at 3 p.m. in 275 Gerlach Hall.
April 29, 2005
Anil Arya, professor of accounting and MIS will speak on Friday,
April 29, at 8:30 a.m. in 265 Gerlach Hall as part of the Fisher
Thought Leaders and Sander Flaum Speaker Series.
Everyone
May 7, 2005
The Center for Entrepreneurship and the Business Builders Club host
the 2005 Entrepreneurship Spectacular. For more information and to
register click here.

Personal Finance Boot Camp
Undergraduate students are invited to a free finance seminar May
14 in Schoenbaum Hall. Delta Sigma Pi and undergraduate business
council will host speakers from JP Morgan Chase, American Express
and US Bank addressing topics of debt management, investing, and first-time
home buying. The seminar will feature complimentary portfolios and
a lunch - register at www.pfbc.info.
Cullman Symposium
The twelfth biennial W. Arthur Cullman Symposium will take place May
26-27 in the Blackwell Hotel. This year, the symposium focuses
on "Competing through Service," which examines the growing
dominance of the services industry and how top-performing organizations
compete through the strategic use of service. For a complete list
of panels and speakers, click
here. A limited number of spaces are available for Fisher College
faculty - contact Ann Ramsey
to register.
Media Hits
Professor of Marketing Roger Blackwell was quoted in an April
24 Akron Beacon Journal article titled "What's
in a Name? Profits."
Associate Professor of Finance Ingrid Werner was quoted in
an April 26 CBS MarketWatch article titled "Possible
NYSE Spoilers Seek Support for Bid."
Accounting Senior Lecturer William Raabe was quoted in an April
27 Cincinnati Enquirer article titled "Taft
Plan Gives and Takes Away."
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