FISHER NEWS QUARTERLY
Several dignitaries spoke at Fisher during the Spring Quarter, including Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Read more about Dimon's visit.
Summer 2011
Returning to Campus
Several alumni returned to campus last quarter to volunteer at events, visit classrooms and lecture. Here are just a few names:
Leslie M. Wexner, founder, CEO and chairman of the board, Limited Brands (Pictured above; click on arrow to view a slideshow and hear an excerpt of his presentation).
Congressman Steve Stivers, U.S. Representative for Ohio's 15th District, held a Jobs Forum at Fisher. (Pictured above; click on the arrow to view a video profile of Rep. Stivers).
Steve Russell, senior vice president of human resources and chief people person, McDonalds.
John P. McEwan, managing partner, Deloitte & Touche
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Christine Poon-The Columbus Dispatch
Michael Camp-Crain's Cleveland Business
Steffanie Wilk-Bloomberg Businessweek
Ken Boyer-Columbus Business First
Shashi Matta-The Chicago Tribune
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Several nationally known business leaders and policy makers visited the Fisher campus; while Fisher students travelled around the globe for development and work opportunities. Click the arrow above for the highlights of the 2010-11 academic year at Fisher.
Fisher, Ohio Third Frontier pilot tech-accelerator program
The Ohio Third Frontier and the Center for Entrepreneurship at Fisher brought the best, young entrepreneurial minds with great ideas for commercially viable technology start-ups. The pilot program, known as Ohio's New Entrepreneur (ONE) Fund, is an innovative business accelerator designed to attract and retain the best and brightest talent to Ohio to support the state's future economic development.
The ONE Fund is an entrepreneurial competition that focuses on the professional development of young technology entrepreneurs as they learn what it takes to start a business in Ohio. Ten teams were selected through a competitive process and provided $20,000 per team for business and living expenses, and worked throughout the summer under the guidance of seasoned entrepreneurs, industry experts and investors to prepare technology concepts and business models that will be presented to investors at the culmination of the 11-week program. Read More >>
Co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act speaks at Fisher
Retired Sen. Paul Sarbanes, co-author of the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which overhauled federal oversight of public companies, spoke at Fisher on April 12. Click the arrow above to listen to a portion of his presentation and view a slideshow.
Barney receives honorary doctoral degree from university in Madrid
Jay Barney, the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy, was given an honorary degree by the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain.
The award was given on April 6 during an academic ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of ICADE. In a press release announcing the award, the university said: "He has had an outstanding career in teaching and in research focused on strategy and management. He has brought a humanistic approach to these fields, in contrast to many of his academic colleagues. This approach to problems in entrepreneurial management, in addition to his contributions as a teacher and researcher, have brought him considerable recognition."
Noting that Barney was one of the most cited scholars in his field, Paloma Bilboa, head of the university's International Business Sciences and professor in the Faculty of Economic Sciences, said: "Essentially, Professor Barney's contributions help us understand that the economics and management, the quantitative and the human aspects, can and must coexist in the management of the firm. His work encourages to think that this ambiguous character of the firm is precisely the key to its success."
Camp receives entrepreneurship award; Inc. magazine calls his class ten best in nation by Inc. magazine
Likening Michael Camp (pictured right) to "those reality-show hosts who crawl around in basements ferreting out neglected antiques," Inc. magazine ranked his Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization course among the 10 best entrepreneurship courses in the nation.
Camp, academic director for the Center for Entrepreneurship, also was awarded the Freedoms Foundation's Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education in March.
The award honors outstanding teachers for bringing passion and creativity to their classrooms as they teach students about entrepreneurship and the free enterprise system.
It was Camp's "passion" that was also noted in the Inc. article describing Camp's course. Camp "scours the labs at his university and outside research organizations for technologies that never gained commercial traction," the magazine reported.
The article, cited O2 Insights, a company launched in Camp's course last year, as an example of a business success story.
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