New York authorities have accused the NRA, Wayne LaPierre and three of his current or former colleagues of squandering millions of dollars the gun group had obtained from its members.

Forthcoming research by Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, and two coauthors found that during the housing boom of 1996 to 2006, prices were higher in some places partly because people expected them to be.

Noah Jellison, executive director of the Risk Institute, writes about the lasting impact that understanding cryptocurrency will have on the future of business and business leaders.

Different factors, including inflation, could play a role in whether insurance rates continue to rise in 2024, says Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate at Fisher.

Leaders who consider themselves merely tough bosses must realize that not everyone sees them the same way. Understanding toxic leadership is the first step toward eradicating it, and groundbreaking research by Bennett Tepper, the Abramowitz Memorial Professor and senior associate dean for faculty and research at Fisher, outlines toxic behaviors.

Donald Sheets, the executive director of The Ohio State University Center for Real Estate, talks about the organization's multidisciplinary reboot.

From strongman to collaborative, experts say what we expect of leaders has changed significantly over time. Timothy Judge, executive director of the Fisher Leadership Initiative and chair of the Department of Management and Human Resources, says the public nature of many leadership positions is driving the recent push for integrity among leaders.

An analysis shows that SantaCon raised $1.4 million through SantaCon programming from late 2014 through 2022, and that less than a fifth of that money has gone to registered nonprofits. “The money going to their targeted charities is minuscule as a percentage of their budget," says Brian Mittendorf, the H.P. Wolfe chair in accounting at Fisher.

The SDG Impact Fund grew from $238 million to $10 billion in one year. Cryptocurrency and NFTs appear to have played a part; the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals do not. Brian Mittendorf, the H.P. Wolfe Chair in Accounting, and Helen Flannery, a fellow at the progressive Institute for Policy Studies, say publicly filed tax documents raise more questions than answers about whether the fund is being used to for the tax benefit of the wealthy.

A mutual-funds rating company changed its methodology two decades ago, and that, according to research from Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, and his co-authors, has made a significant difference in the performance of momentum strategies.

Research from Isil Erel, the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance at Fisher, and Michael Weisbach, the Ralph Kurtz Chair in Finance, adds to insights related to the use of Artificial Intelligence in hiring and human resources management.

The group is slowly abandoning its original mission to teach Americans how to handle guns. Spending on these programs has dropped 77 percent in less than a decade. The trend, says Brian Mittendorf, the H.P. Wolfe Chair in Accounting at Fisher, can impact membership, which in turn leads to questions about the long-term future of the organization.

Top cities such as New York and San Francisco will continue to see growth, says Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate at Fisher, but there are other markets around the country that are emerging with affordability and robust job growth. 

John Gray, the Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Operations and Business Analytics, has been named one of two Distinguished Scholars by Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM), a division of the Academy of Management. Learn more about Gray's journey into academia and how he became the fourth Fisher faculty member to earn the recognition since 2003.

 Paul Reeder, executive director of the Center for Innovation Strategies, discusses what innovation means for businesses today, and how that meaning can be measured as progress.

Researchers, practitioners, experts and students gathered for the second annual Fintech @ Ohio State and Beyond Conference to deepen their understanding of the technology that supports modern-day business. The event also included news of the launch of Fisher's new Fintech Micro-Credential, its latest step in non-degree graduate offerings.

Donald Sheets, executive director of The Ohio State University Center for Real Estate, discusses the federal ruling   against the National Association of Realtors and multiple real estate companies for colluding to inflate commissions, and its impact on the residential real estate market in Ohio.

Self-checkout was the next big thing in retail sales, but now, after years of long lines and finicky machines, its efficacy is in question. As new forms of advanced checkout are tested in stores across the country, Joe Goodman, chair of Fisher's Department of Marketing and Logistics, joins the discussion about taking deeper look at self-checkout.

Assistant Professor of Finance Shaojun Zhang explains her research and her structural model-based measure of systemic default, which measures the joint probability of multiple companies defaulting simultaneously.

The highly-anticipated spot bitcoin ETFs are likely to be disappointing performers for a considerable time after they are launched.

A collaboration among two of Fisher’s Centers of Excellence and Ohio State’s East Asian Studies Center put global trade dynamics and supply chain resiliency in the spotlight. The Global Supply Chain Forum connected the Ohio State community with U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai and Harvard Professor William Kirby.

ChatGPT is an opportunity for accounting professionals if they can overcome their fear of it, says Noah Jellison, executive director of the Risk Institute.

Is the glut of new exchange traded funds (ETF) a sign of an impending catastrophe? Research by Fisher's Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, Byungwook Kim and their colleague Francesco Franzoni shows the underperformance of many of the news ETFs.

Supply chains are the backbone to our modern society, and when something goes wrong, there’s an enormous ripple effect. In the latest episode of the Now at Ohio State podcast, Terry Esper, professor of logistics at Fisher, and Katrina Cornish, professor in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, discuss the importance of supply chains, how COVID has changed things and what we can do to make sure things keep running smoothly.

Balancing administrative costs with direct benefit expenditures is a tightrope for many nonprofits. New insights from Telesilla Kotsi, assistant professor of operations and business analytics, turns conventional thinking on its head by showing how increased spending on overhead and fundraising can actually make an organization more effective and resilient.