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January 13, 2006 |
 Registration for business plan competition begins Fisher Fiesta held in Tempe Blocksom, Smith awarded Rosenfield Family Prize Accounting programs ranked by journal Summit at Fisher a success FisherPeople: Larry Wallington |
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| Registration for business plan competition begins The Center for Entrepreneurship is now accepting registrations for the 2006 Fisher Business Plan Competition sponsored by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. Team registration and more information are available online at http://entrepreneurship.osu.edu. Registration deadline is Feb. 5. Teams must include at least one Ohio State student and may not have undertaken any formal startup activities, such as raising capital or selling products or services, prior to the current academic year. “This competition encourages entrepreneurs to explore their cutting-edge business ideas and provides students with experience in real-life startup situations where securing investment lies on both the strength of the idea and the quality of the presentation,” said Michael Camp, academic director, Center for Entrepreneurship. Participants begin by submitting a brief conceptual business case. Experts from around the greater metropolitan Columbus area will evaluate initial submissions and choose approximately 35 teams to participate. Six to eight teams will advance to the final round. The top three finalists will share in more than $120,000 in start-up funds and services. The Center for Entrepreneurship, the Graduate E-Club and the Business Builders Club will host instructional programs leading up to the competition. Each team selected for the Business Plan round will also receive specialized business plan software. Back to Top
Fisher Fiesta held in Tempe  Fisher Dean Joe Alutto; Scott Mitte, senior vice president, the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation, and football legend Archie Griffin, president and CEO, OSU alumni association. Under a beaming Arizona sun, more than 230 alumni and friends gathered under a canopy of grapevines and a trellis-covered outdoor bar at Tempe’s House of Tricks for the Fisher Fiesta before the Ohio State vs. Notre Dame bowl game on Jan. 2. Back to Top
Blocksom, Smith awarded Rosenfield Family Prize  Royce West, adjunct professor of finance; prize winners Reed Blocksom and Sara Smith; Professor Andrew Karolyi Two seniors were awarded the Rosenfield Family Prize for Excellence in Security Analysis in the fall quarter competition. Reed Blocksom, a senior in the Honors Cohort, received the first place $2,000 prize and Sara Smith, a senior in the contract program, was the runner up and awarded the $500 prize. The Rosenfield prize is awarded each quarter to a graduate or undergraduate student at Ohio State who develops the best, professional quality security analysis report on a company. Blocksom prepared his report on Staples and Smith’s analysis was on Alltel. A committee of alumni, faculty, students and external evaluators judged submissions. “The judges for the competition include professionals working in the asset management business locally and around the country. They see a lot of sell-side research every day, so a successful report has to catch their attention,” said Andrew Karolyi, the Charles R. Webb Professor of Finance and director, Student Investment Management Program. “Both Sara's and Reed's reports were thorough, convincing and extremely readable, but they were also innovative.” The Rosenfield Family Prize was made possible through a gift to the SIM program by brothers Jack and Daniel Rosenfield, alumni of Fisher. Daniel is a partner in Rothenberg-Rosenfield, Inc. and Jack is director of asset management for Athena Group, LLC, both in New York City. "Dan and I attribute much of our success to the education we received at The Ohio State University and specifically the business school,” said Jack Rosenfield. “We believe that it is important to share our success with those who come after us and we are pleased that we can provide an opportunity for deserving students to benefit from what they have learned at the Fisher College." Back to Top
Accounting programs ranked by journal The Public Accounting Report, an independent newsletter of the accounting profession, released the results of its 2005 rankings of undergraduate and graduate programs. The undergraduate accounting program was ranked tenth, the master’s placed 11th and the doctoral tied for number 16 with Harvard. According to the newsletter’s Nov. 30 edition, “The report surveys accounting professors and department heads across the nation to name the top graduate, undergraduate and doctoral programs they believe most consistently turn out students capable of some day attaining partner status.” This is the 24th year the publication has conducted the survey. Back to Top
Summit at Fisher a success December’s Summit at Fisher, a two-day conference for MBA career services and admissions professionals, brought together more than 35 administrators from public, private, international and nationally ranked programs. “Issues related to program delivery, branding and promotion, improving the collaboration of admissions and career services in attracting and developing MBA students were brought to the forefront in presentations and panel discussions,” said Jeff Rice, director of Career Services and president of the MBA Career Services Council. Panels featured career services and admission professionals from Darden, Tuck, Ross and Zicklin schools of business. College relations managers and recruiters from Limited Brands, Diamond Innovations and Proctor & Gamble participated in the corporate panel. “Best practices and innovative strategies were shared and a majority of participants made a stated commitment to implement fresh approaches and reconvene at Fisher to report future results," Rice said. Back to Top
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Hobbies: Sports, movies and church. FisherLure: “The friendly people.” Back to Top
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 Friday, Jan. 13 “Fisher Ink.” is holding a launch party to celebrate the new magazine at 7 p.m. the Drexel Gateway Theater, 1550 N. High St. The event is free. Tuesday, Jan. 17 Bill Neal, president and founder of SDR Consulting in Atlanta, GA., and founder of the American Marketing Association’s ART Forum, will present material from his forthcoming book on brand equity at the Marketing and Logistics Research Colloquia, 12:30 p.m.500A Fisher Hall. Wednesday, Jan. 18 Faculty/Student Ice Cream Social, 3:30 to 5 p.m. Bank One Student Lounge, Gerlach Hall. Hosted by the Department of Marketing and Logistics. P&G Presents “Women in Leadership,” 6:30 to 9 p.m. 365 Gerlach Hall. Hosted by Fisher Graduate Women in Business. Friday, Feb. 17 Gordon Tytler, vice president of supply chain management, Rolls Royce, COE Morning Professional Development Seminar, 10:30 a.m. 140 Pfahl Hall. Miles Arnone, co-author of "American Trading Partners, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly," 1:30 p.m., 140 Pfahl Hall.  New textbook by Allenby now available Greg Allenby, professor and Helen Kurtz Chair in Marketing, co-authored (with Peter Rossi and Rob McCulloch) a new book titled “Bayesian Statistics and Marketing.” Allenby specializes in the study of economic and statistical issues in marketing. GPO receives NBMBAA award The Graduate Programs Office received a 2005 Educational Partner of the Year Award from the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA). Fisher and the GPO were honored for outstanding and continued support to the Columbus Chapter of the NBMBAA. The program was cited for its “dedication and commitment towards the ideals of promoting intellectual and economic wealth both locally and nationally." Undergrad business council launches magazine The premier issue of “Fisher Ink.,” a magazine by and for undergraduate students, made its debut on Jan. 9. The glossy magazine is a bi-weekly that includes articles on Fisher campus events and on business and career topics. The magazine is currently available on racks in Schoenbaum and Mason halls. Application deadline for honors and contract program, Feb. 3 Applications are now available for the Business Administration Honors Cohort and Contract programs. The Business Administration Honors Cohort and Contract programs provide enriched academic experiences for students. More information and applications can be obtained online at http://fisher.osu.edu/ programs/undergraduate/ honors/cohort/cohort-application or from the front desk in 120 Schoenbaum Hall.  Finance professor Anthony B. Sanders is quoted in the Dec. 26, 2005, “BusinessWeek” article, “After the Housing Runup,” on the price of real estate investment trusts (REITs). Sanders told the magazine that “REITs have been very richly priced” and executives have told him privately they’re buying expensive properties to please Wall Street. The newly named Center for Operational Excellence is the feature article in the Dec. 23, 2005, issue of “Columbus Business First.” Management sciences professors William Berry, co-director of the center, and Peter Ward, the center’s director of research, are quoted in the article on the expanding strategy of the center and changes in the manufacturing sector. |
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