Do you know yourself? Oded Shenkar, the Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management at Fisher and academic director of the National Center for the Middle Market, lays out the inherent advantages and disadvantages of middle-market firms.

Tim Judge, the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness and executive director of the Fisher Leadership Initiative, shares his insights into some obstacles that may prevent individuals from becoming leaders with vision and purpose.

As part of the "There's a Better Way" podcast, Aravind Chandrasekaran, associate director of the Center for Operational Excellence, talks with Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting about gift giving, for companies and individuals, and the differences between cash and non-cash gifts.

Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate at Fisher, and his colleague find that global emission levels are lower for countries with tighter domestic environmental regulations. However, companies with overseas facilities tend to emit more abroad, particularly in countries with laxer environmental standards.

Running, for the most part, is all about goal-setting.