Research
Rooted in Research
The Risk Institute produces world-renowned research on relevant topics related to risk and enterprise risk management which creates synergies from collaboration among academics and member executives. The Risk Institute also serves as a resource for helping to identify existing research that is relevant to additional risk and enterprise risk management topics
Current Research Fellows
Alessandro Melone joined the Department of Finance at The Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business in 2022 after earning a PhD in Finance from the Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF). During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting scholar at Bocconi University and Northwestern University. Professor Melone’s research interests center on macro-based asset pricing and investments. His research has been awarded the John A. Doukas PhD Best Paper Award 2022, the IQAM Research Award 2022 and has been featured on The Wall Street Journal. His work has also been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Alessandro teaches Investments to undergraduate students at Fisher.
Don Pagach is professor of accounting at NC State University and director of research for NC State’s Enterprise Risk Management Initiative. Don received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from UW-Madison and his PhD in accounting from the Florida State University. His current research focuses on enterprise risk management, specifically risk appetite. His research has appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research and Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.
Don has been named an outstanding teacher at NC State. He is active in the CPA profession and is a member of the Financial Accounting and Reporting exam committee for the AICPA. Don, along with Jim Wahlen and Jeff Jones, co-authored the accounting text Intermediate Accounting, published by Cengage.
The Risk Institute meets at the intersection of academia and industry and is committed to generating new insights and influencing the adoption of leading risk management practices.
Recent Research
Research completed by Dennis Hirsch and Aravind Chandrasekaran. The Final Report in the Business Data Ethics project examines: The threats that corporate use of advanced analytics creates for individuals and the broader society (Part III); What “data ethics” means to the companies that practice it (Part IV); Why companies pursue data ethics when the law does not require them to do so (Part V); The substantive principles that companies use to draw the line between ethical and unethical uses of advanced analytics (Part VI); The management processes (Part VII) and technologies (Part VIII) that companies use to achieve these substantive goals; and Corporate projects that use advanced analytics for the social good (Part IX).
How can a company improve the resilience of its supply chain processes, so that it can recover rapidly from unexpected disruptions, assure business continuity and adapt effectively to changing external conditions?
SCRAM™ is the solution. SCRAM™ is a facilitated process, supported by a computer-based toolkit, that provides a diagnostic assessment of an organization's preparedness and fitness for coping with turbulent change. The process identifies resilience gaps and then suggests enhancements that will strengthen the company's capacity to survive, adapt and flourish - even when surprises occur.
The Risk Institute Research Fellows
- Jaideep (Jay) Anand
William H. Davis Chair in the American Free Enterprise System and Professor of Strategy
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Murillo Campello
Lewis H. Durland Professor of Management, Professor of Finance
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business - Keely Croxton
Associate Professor of Logistics
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Isil Erel
Academic Director, The Risk Institute
Distinguished Professor of Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Erasmo Giambona
Professor of Finance
Syracuse University Whitman School of Management - Seth D. Guikema
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan - Oğuzhan Karakaş
Associate Professor of Finance
University of Cambridge Judge Business School - Xi Li
Associate Professor of Accounting
London School of Economics and Political Science - Brett Massimino
Associate Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business - Yihui Pan
Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Utah - Steven M. Quiring
Professor, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Geography
The Ohio State University - Adam Rose
Professor, The National Center of Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
University of Southern California - Eric Seiber
Associate Professor
The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy - Oded Shenkar
Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management
Professor of Management and Human Resources
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Brittany Shoots-Reinhard
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
The Ohio State University - Tracy Yue Wang
Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management - Ingrid M. Werner
Martin and Andrew Murrer Professor in Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - YiLin Wu
Professor of Economics
National Taiwan University College of Social Sciences - Karen Hopper Wruck
Professor of Finance, Dean's Distinguished Professorship
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
- Nicholas P.B. Bollen
Professor of Finance
Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University - Zhenhua Chen
Assistant Professor City and Regional Planning (CRP)
The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture - Elroy Dimson
Chair, Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management
University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Emeritus Professor of Finance
London Business School - Shan Ge
Assistant Professor of Finance
New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Ralph T. Greco
Director, Business Analytics Initiative
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Brian Hilligoss
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy - Yingchao Lan
PhD Candidate, Operations Management
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Anil K. Makhija
Dean and John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business and Professor of Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Bernadette A. Minton
Chair, Department of Finance
Professor of Finance and Arthur E. Shepard Endowed Professor in Insurance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Jordan V. Pino
PhD Student and Graduate Research Associate, Department of Geography
The Ohio State University - Simcha Ronen
Emeritus Professor of International Management and Organizational Psychology
Tel-Aviv University Graduate School of Business - Paul Rose
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
J. Gilbert Reese Chair in Contract Law
The Ohio State University - Berk Sensoy
Hans Stoll Chair
Professor of Finance
Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management - Stephen A. Shield
PhD student, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Nebraska-Lincoln - René M. Stulz
Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics
Director, Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Michael S. Weisbach
Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Research Associate
National Bureau of Economic Research - Wendy Yi Xu
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy
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