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College receives $1.8 million estate gift to establish chair, scholarships |
Executive Education’s Lisa Antolino call ed the late John Russell, (pictured right) who served on the Dean’s Advisory Council, as the “ultimate people person.”
As a corporate communications executive, he was a true believer in customer centric business strategies, she said.
Antolino worked with Russell for many years at Bank One. “He was creative, an innovator, a visionary,” Antolino said. He was also a mentor and a friend to Antolino.
“He was extremely supportive of me and continued to be a mentor to me after I came here to Fisher," she said.
She recalled a man who was a great communicator, supporter of education and mostly a generous heart. It is all of those attributes and more that will be Russell’s lasting legacy for the Fisher community.
Fisher College of Business has received an estate gift from the late John A. Russell to create student scholarships and to establish an endowed chair. Read More>> |
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Center at Fisher provides action-based learning for Ohio State students from diverse fields
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Darren Weng, doctoral student in economics, and NCACI director Tom Bishop listen as MBA candidate Samarth Mital (center) discusses a Nationwide research project.
Around a conference room table in Fisher Hall, MBA students and Fisher faculty sit alongside other graduate students and faculty from psychology, statistics and economics. All are working with executives from Nationwide on company business issues.
For nearly two hours, the group gathered at the table discussed customer satisfaction and retention data from Nationwide, computer programs for statistical analysis and the results and status of various research projects for the Nationwide Center for Advanced Customer Insights (NCACI).
“The center is the embodiment of so many of the objectives and the mission laid out for the university and Fisher as articulated by President (Gordon) Gee and Dean (Christine) Poon,” said Tom Bishop, the center’s executive director and an associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Fisher. “In partnership with Nationwide executives, we are using the skills and expertise of the university to support a company that is very important to the region. We are taking a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing their business problems and providing hands-on experience to Ohio State students.”
The center’s work is already making an impact at Nationwide.Read More>>
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Fisher News Video: Buser, Fisher lead History of Financial Thought project for
American Finance Association
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Stephen Buser (pictured above), professor emeritus at Fisher and historian for the American Finance Association, undertook a major project for the association. His mission was to create a video record of the History of Finance.
For the last two years, Buser and Fisher’s Educational Technologies team in Information Technology Services have undertaken the tall order of producing video interviews with important contributors to financial economic knowledge. Click the arrow above to learn more about the project.
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Fisher hosts fourth annual Biz Quiz
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The fourth annual Biz Quiz brought together 18 teams of undergraduate business students from around the country for a two-day competition. Read more about the competition results in a story below. Click on the arrow above to watch highlights from the event.
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Gee, Wexner deliver keynotes
at IMS 2009 Fall Symposium
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Les Wexner (left) discusses successful business strategies with participants at the IMS 2009 Fall Symposium.
Leslie M. Wexner shared company secrets about the Miracle bra before a standing room only crowd of business managers, executives and military officers from across the nation for the 2009 Initiative for Managing Services Fall Symposium.
From organizational settings as diverse as fast-food, military, technology and higher education, presenters that included Wexner along with Air Force Brigadier General Sharon Dunbar, Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee, Marketing Professor Neeli Bendapudi and Russ Klein, the former chief marketing officer of Burger King, offered their strategies on responding to economic change. Read More>>
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Net Impact receives "Chapter of the Year" award; Balch honored for leadership
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 As the only undergraduate-graduate Net Impact chapter in the international organization and its speedy ascent to “Gold” status within one year of formation, it almost seems natural that The Ohio State University’s Net Impact received a “Chapter of the Year” award.
Fisher senior James Balch, (pictured right) founding undergraduate president of the chapter, was also named undergraduate leader of the year.
The awards were given at the Net Impact annual conference held at Cornell University Nov. 13 and 14. More than 2,500 Net Impact members attended the awards ceremony. The chapter awards are given in several categories, including professional, international and large and small chapter. Read More>>
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Fisher receives educational excellence award from National Society of Hispanic MBAs
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Fisher received the 2009 Brillante Award for Educational Excellence from the National Society of Hispanic MBAs. The award was given on Oct. 10 at the Brillante Awards Gala at the NSHMBA 2009 Conference and Career Expo in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
David Harrison, director of Fisher’s Office of Minority Student Services and Francisco Gomez-Bellenge, associate to the Dean, accepted the award on behalf of the college at the gala. Ten Fisher students also attended the national conference and the awards ceremony. Click on the arrow above to view highlights of the event.
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BusinessWeek magazine gives Fisher programs top rankings
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BusinessWeek magazine placed Fisher’s EMBA program 15th in its international rankings; while Fisher’s Working Professional MBA was ranked 20th nationally, according to the magazine’s Nov. 13 issue.
EMBA program directors and Fisher graduates surveyed for the biennial rankings gave Fisher an “A” in teaching and an “A-plus” in the categories of curriculum and support. EMBA graduates ranked the program fifth. The Working Professional MBA received straight A’s in all three categories from survey respondents. Read More>> |
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