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Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor of Accounting, tracks NRA finances and says signs from the NRA’s announcement indicate that the bankruptcy filing has little to do with restructuring debt but rather a legal strategy.

Research from a pair of finance faculty members, including Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, provides context to a closer look at the performance of specialized — or thematic — Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs).

Are specialized Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs) that are built around hot industries like cannabis, cybersecurity, and work-from-home businesses good ideas? Research from Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, and PhD candidate Byungwook Kim provides a cautionary tale for investors. 

In 2017, Alex Pickard had made so much money from Bitcoin that he quit his job in finance and moved to Washington state to mine digital coins full time. Less than a year later, the venture had failed and he was back at quant firm Research Affiliates.

In a recent study, Xue Wang, associate professor of accounting and management information systems, and her colleagues move the debate on shareholder lawsuits forward by studying the impact of shareholder litigation threats on CEOs’ employment.

Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor in Accounting and an expert in nonprofits, shares some insights regarding Elon Musk's desire to give his fortune away to philanthropy. Mittendorf's advice: avoid the temptation to reinvent philanthropy and instead focus on causes and frameworks already in place. 

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.

Assistant Professor of Marketing Alice Li joins exclusive company in being named one of the Marketing Science Institute's 2021 Young Scholars. 

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. 

They have been attacked by many academics and progressive politicians. Now, with a new administration, the battle could soon get even more heated. Rene Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics, shares insights into stock buybacks.

Does corporate fraud have an impact on the crime rate in the area in which the misconduct happens? Research from Assistant Professor of Accounting Eric Holzman and his colleagues shows an interesting correlation.

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.

The stock market is often misused as a bellwether for the economy, especially in political debates. Yet the market has never reliably moved in concert with the economy. And today the connection between the two is weaker than at any point since World War II, according to research by Rene Stulz, Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at Fisher, and a colleague.

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

Not long ago, artificial intelligence (AI) was the stuff of science fiction. Now it is changing how consumers eat, sleep, work, play, and even date. A new Journal of Marketing article co-authored by Rebecca Walker Reczek, the Dr. H.

When organizations discuss ways they can improve internal processes, much of their initial focus centers on revamping existing protocols. While short-term results of these changes can lead to positive results, the true measure of success is whether the new processes yield positives in the long term and whether these improvements can be replicated and sustained over time. 

Leaders who are attentive to employees' emotional needs and unite them around a common purpose could help reduce COVID-19-induced stress in the workplace, according to a study led by Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources Jasmine Hu. It concludes that "servant leadership" can even promote engagement.

In this episode of Appreciating Real Estate, the Ohio State Center for Real Estate talks with Kyle Waldrep, founder and CEO of Dottid, a commercial real estate SAAS technology platform provides a single location for brokers, landlords and tenants to share information, work seamlessly throughout the leasing process and ultimately, close deals faster and with greater efficiency.

This new study by Rene Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics, and his colleagues crunches the numbers and finds the disconnect between the stock market and the economy increases as valuations become more stretched.

Have you ever given a good gift that wasn't received well? It could be because you are accidentally saying the wrong thing when presenting it.

In this episode of Appreciating Real Estate, the Ohio State Center for Real Estate talks with Peter Cummings, CEO and executive chairman of The Platform, a company focused on the rebuilding of Detroit.