Forefront

How can mid-sized companies embrace, adopt and keep pace with digital transformation and emerging technologies? As part of a collaboration with Harvard Business Review, Anil Makhija, dean and John W. Berry, Sr.

Tanya Menon, professor of management and human resources, shares tips and insights designed to empower women to advocate and negotiate for themselves.

Many of us feel stress because we have too little free time. But a study shows that having too much also can harm our well-being. Selin Malkoc, associate professor of marketing, shares a few tips to optimize your hours as well as your happiness.

Associate Professor Jia (Jasmine) Hu, a leadership expert in Fisher College of Business, takes us beyond the inescapable buzzword and into the heart of what it means to grow and become a leader.

How we use and think about our leisure matters more than the number of hours. Selin Malkoc, associate professor of marketing, explains how she interprets recent research into how we view our leisure time.

Some people try to make every hour of leisure perfect, while others hate taking time off altogether. Research by Selin Malkoc, associate professor of marketing, and her colleagues explores whether we have forgotten how to enjoy free time.

Associate Professor of Marketing Selin Malkoc: "There is plenty of research which suggests that leisure has mental health benefits and that it can make us more productive and less stressed."

Research by Associate Professor of Marketing Selin Malkoc and her colleagues strongly indicates that believing or feeling like leisure activities or time spent relaxing is a “waste” results in more stress and depression, greater anxiety, and less happiness overall.

Research by Selin Malkoc, associate professor of marketing, shows that those who are skeptical of devoting time to having fun may feel more stress and less happiness than those who see value leisure activities.

As companies explore short- and long-term changes associated with returning to the office, Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources Larry Inks discusses how the workplace of the future will look like, what should it look like, and he draws an importan

Feeling a little anxious about returning to the workplace now that things are opening back up? Management and human resources expert Jasmine Hu has some answers that can put you more at ease.

An interdisciplinary research team that includes Andrea Contigiani, assistant professor of management and human resources, has been awarded a grant to study the potential benefits of entrepreneurship training for refugee and other vulnerable populations.

Management and human resources experts Larry Inks and Ray Noe, the Robert and Anne Hoyt Designated Professor of Management and Human Resources at Fisher, add context to a survey conducted by the National Center for the Middle Market. They look at the importance and prevalence of various talent planning activities among middle market firms and assess overall talent planning performance and identifies challenge areas for middle market companies.

Why do videoconferences leave us feeling so tired? The answer, according to a team of researchers including Kate Keeler, assistant professor of management and human resources, may center on how connected we feel with others in our virtual meetings.

Middle-market companies aren’t unique in facing the many challenges brought on by the pandemic, but many of them have the resiliency to emerge from it successfully. Anil Makhija, dean and John W. Berry, Sr.

With personal and professional networks shrinking by as much as 16% during the pandemic, research is pointing to ways to help prevent us from withdrawing too much. A study by Tanya Menon, professor of management and human resources, says having a strong identity and core values can overcome the tendency to "turtle in."

A new study with ties to Ohio State details just how many working women are sacrificing their own careers to help with childcare during the pandemic. Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources Tracy Dumas discusses the disproportionality as well as ways employers can help accommodate employees who are responsible for childcare.

Phil Renaud, executive director of the Risk Institute, writes that it is more important than ever that organizations pay attention to the business resilience needs of corporations facing severe weather-related risks.

Envy is a natural human emotion, but it’s often misunderstood when it comes up at work. Professor of Management and Human Resources Tanya Menon discusses how drawing boundaries can help us handle competition, fear, and jealousy in our careers.

Faceless, top-down leadership has become stale, fake and ineffective. 2020 is the year smart managers realized they needed to be human too. Research from Management and Human Resources professor Jasmine Hu shows how servant leadership can be a powerful tool in how managers lead. 

As leaders navigate the workplace challenges that COVID-19 continues to present, Management and Human Resources Professor Jasmine Hu explores one style that effective managers can employ to help their teams cope and turn negative feelings into positive action.

COVID-19 has forced changes in the way people work — and created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to increase engagement and productivity, write Tom Stewart, executive director of the National Center for the Middle Market.

In speaking with 17 former college athletes from 10 universities around the U.S. about their negative experiences with coaches, a pattern emerged of psychological and emotional abuse in women's sports. Ben Tepper, the Abramowitz Memorial Professor and chair of the Department of Management and Human Resources at Fisher College of Business, told Insider that college sports often provide "the perfect storm" of circumstances that can lead to abuse.

When we keep our goals to ourselves, we lack accountability. A study conducted by Howard Klein found that people showed a greater commitment to their goals and performance when they shared their goals with people of higher status.

With the very real possibility of a second wave of COVID-19 cases spiking soon, research by Yunhui Huang, assistant professor of marketing, reveals the characteristics that individuals from around the world identified as taking priority for a hypothetical allocation of a life-saving ven