Doug Farren, the managing director of the National Center for the Middle Market, provides insights into the middle market outlook for 2023 following the release of the Middle Market Indicator in January.

A historic, $110 million gift from the Timashev Family Foundation to The Ohio State University will establish the Center for Software Innovation, which will bring together the College of Engineering, Fisher College of Business and other partners in creative new ways, including through the creation of endowed professorships, cutting-edge academic offerings and hands-on industry experience for students. 

Amin Shams, assistant professor of finance, breaks down the wild, mysterious world of blockchain, bitcoin and cryptocurrency’s future.

Research by Professor of Marketing and Logistics Selin Malkoc highlights an important facet of leisure time, which connects with the belief that monetizing a hobby won't always bring happiness. 

With confidence rebounding, middle market companies aim to grow their workforce in 2023, according to research conducted by the National Center for the Middle Market.

The crypto market saw a weekend drop, with most crypto coins in the top 100 list flashing red over the last 24 hours.  “When the volume is low, the same trade size can move prices a lot more,” said Amin Shams, a finance professor at Fisher who has study cryptocurrencies.

From grocery prices and egg prices in particular to gas prices, everything costs more, but how does that impact Columbus restaurants. Joe Goodman, chair of the department of marketing and logistics at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business, said between the costs of food and labor, restaurants are feeling the same squeeze as customers.

A research paper co-authored in 2018 by Assistant Professor of Finance Amin Shams and John Griffin, finance professor at the UT Austin McCombs School of Business, explored a single, still unidentified, Bitcoin “whale” almost singlehandedly drove the token’s giant run-up in late 2017 and early 2018 by distorting the trading in the token. Bitcoin's recent price stability has some wondering whether big buyers could be setting a price floor and pushing the cryptocurrency higher.

Does financial innovation in the ETF space create value for investors? A study by Fisher's Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, graduate research assistant Byungwook Kim, and their colleagues Rabih Moussawi and Francesco Franzoni suggests otherwise.

Will hybrid work, where employees work remotely part-time, become standard? Or will the five-day commute make a comeback? Data from the National Center for the Middle Market helps provide a glimpse into what the future of work could look like.

New research from Management and Human Resources Professor Jasmine Hu finds that leaders reap benefits when they reflect on — and learn from — their mistakes.

Men do fewer domestic chores if both they and their wife are working from home, according to research from Fisher's Jasmine Hu.

A new study from Professor of Management and Human Resources Jasmine Hu found "gendered differences" in how working husbands and wives experience remote work and flexible schedules.

Unclear roles and blurry work/home distinctions mean women are getting the worse deal from the remote work revolution, according to research from Management and Human Resources Professor Jasmine Hu. 

“We found that men and women don’t have the same experience working from home,” said Jasmine Hu, professor of management and human resources and the lead author of a new study that examined gender role differences in China and South Korea. “There are still some gendered differences in how they manage their job and family responsibilities.”

A new study from Management and Human Resources Professor Jasmine Hu shows that among dual-earning couples, both men and women completed more family-related tasks when working from home. However, when wives worked from home, husbands performed less housework. This was not the case for wives when their husbands worked from home.

Parents are straining to find children’s cold and flu medicine as companies also struggle to keep up with demand for amoxicillin. John Gray, a professor of operations, says because the margins for these products are so low, manufacturers aren't motivated to ramp up production more than they have to.

Wine, toys, and appliances are among the items that will be harder to get this holiday season. Keely Croxton, professor of logistics, says in order to avoid future supply chain issues, companies may begin holding more inventory and avoid relying on a single supplier. The cost for this resiliency, when things return to normal, could be higher prices for consumers.

Whether it’s cloud stocks, crypto or Korean pop, there’s an exchange-traded fund offering a way in. Just don’t expect it to beat the S&P 500, according to research by Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, and his colleagues.

A new study from the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and  the Risk Institute at Fisher College of Business finds fire remediation efforts are lacking in vulnerable states.

Meet the newest leader of the Ohio State Center for Real Estate and learn about his experience as an industry practitioner and as someone who has created educational real estate programming.

Researchers Rebecca Walker Reczek, the Berry Chair of New Technologies in Marketing at Fisher, and her colleagues John Costello (PhD '21) and Aviva Philipp-Muller, find that people are less likely to buy goods associated with pleasure or indulgence if they are described as being scientifically formulated.

A new partnership between Elevate Northland, Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services and Fisher College of Business is providing new Americans, including migrants and refugees, with entrepreneurship training to help them build self-sustainability and feel more at home in their new country.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now-defunct exchange for trading cryptocurrencies, believed in ‘earning to give.’ Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor of Accounting and an expert in nonprofit accounting, explains the significance of FTX’s implosion for philanthropy and the nonprofits Bankman-Fried supported.

Many established scholars see their careers flounder because they fail to stay up-to-date and do not work hard to find productive new uses of their time, writes Michael S. Weisbach, the Ralph Kurtz Chair in Finance at Fisher.