Forefront

World-renowned leadership expert Tim Judge, the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness, shares his award-winning approach to shaping young minds.

Associate Professor of Operations Aravind Chandrasekaran and Fisher's Six Sigma offerings and were recognized as being noteworthy among other programs.

Khalil Clements’ experience with The Ohio State University Center for Real Estate is just one example of the many ways the center is delivering on its mission to advance real estate through educational opportunities, academic research and outreach and partnerships with the real estate community.

As part of the “There’s a Better Way” podcast, Aravind Chandrasekaran, associate director of the Center for Operational Excellence, talks with Bethany Melitz, director of lean for the City of Detroit, about her her team is making a big impact from everything to road conditions to job placement.

A dissertation by Assistant Professor of Logistics Vince Castillo was selected as the logistics and supply chain management winner in a competition by Emerald Publishing and the European Foundation for Management Development.

Fisher Designated Professor in Accounting Brian Mittendorf spoke with Bloomberg Tax reporter Aysha Bagchi as part of the podcast, Talking Tax, about a case involving donor-advised funds and the tax and policy ramifications of these funds.

Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor in Accounting, has been selected by the NonProfit Times as one of its Top 50 Influencers for his research into charitable giving.

Middle market companies continue to show strong growth according to the National Center from the Middle Market (NCMM). More than three-quarters of firms report year-over-year revenue growth, with a full 38 percent reporting a growth rate of 10 percent or more.

Research by René Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics, and Justin Birru, assistant professor of finance, provides insights as to the quality of short-term recommendations made by sell-side research analysts.

Terry Esper, associate professor of logistics at Fisher, says mentorship and continuous learning can help shrink the gender gap in logistics: “Young women should actively seek out mentors, and the earlier in their career, the better. One of the major concerns that we’ve heard through the annual study of women in the professional ranks is that they’ve often struggled with keeping up with the changing trends in the field. Hence, young women should enter the career with a resolve to stay abreast of the ‘latest and greatest’ through continuous learning and professional organization affiliations.”

The embattled National Rifle Association reported some good news to its supporters earlier this year: Revenue from membership dues jumped 33% last year to $170 million. But that picture may not be as rosy as those numbers suggest: “The NRA is increasingly reliant on selling long-term memberships” and counting much of the revenue the first year, said Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor in Accounting. “A very conservative approach with a five-year membership would be to record one-fifth in the current year and defer the rest.”

Small businesses have been drawn to manufacturing overseas for the same reasons as Fortune 500 companies: Labor costs are lower than in the U.S. But there are downsides and complications to making goods overseas, said Professor of Operations John Gray: “It’s a vexing problem for anyone, but being small and offshore makes it harder.”

When professor Brian Mittendorf asks his lecture hall full of accounting students on the first day of each semester to name the 10 highest-grossing charities in the U.S., the Red Cross, United Way or Habitat for Humanity come easily. But his students miss some big ones.

See why Tom Goldsby, the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation Professor and chair of the department of marketing and logistics at Fisher, was the only academic selected to be a part of DC Velocity's 2019 Rainmakers list.

A national survey by the National Center for the Middle Market finds that although midmarket revenue and employment growth are strong, confidence is starting to flag.

Fisher's Terry Esper discussed the “consumer-centric” supply chain at the WERC Annual Conference for Logistics Professionals in Columbus, saying that 67 percent of business buyers have switched vendors to get a more consumer-like experience, and in the days of Amazon, logistics matters more than it ever has.

Learn how strength and culture types identified in research conducted by the National Center for the Middle Market can drive companies forward.

Research by Steffanie Wilk, associate dean for diversity and inclusion at Fisher, shows that workers with more diverse personal relationships were, not surprisingly, better at building a racially diverse network on the job. This broader network is invaluable in improving career outcomes.

Private equity firms are now sitting on a record amount of uninvested capital, which is good news for businesses seeking funds.

Record damages and the increasing frequency in climate change-related weather events have driven risk analysts into uncharted waters in predicting the magnitude of future risks or finding ways to minimize or avoid them. "Whether it's fires or flooding or hurricanes, companies are starting to think that what used to be a once-in-500-years event may perhaps now be a 10- to 20-year event," said Phil Renaud, the executive director of the Risk Institute.

Thomas A. Stewart, executive director of the National Center for the Middle Market, examines the strategy behind data and how it can help your business make better decisions.

Experts in crisis management say the damage to the Mount Carmel brand is significant but not beyond repair. Deborah Mitchell, who teaches marketing at Fisher College of Business, says there are plenty of examples of company brands surviving extraordinary damage. 

Philip S. Renaud, executive director of the Risk Institute, details research from the center that found 28 percent of financial, non-financial, public and private firms have been victims of a cyber-attack, and that 33 percent of firms don’t think that they are at risk of a cyber-attack.

Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate at Fisher, and his colleagues studied the impact of large institutional ownership on stock prices in the US market. The researchers showed that ownership by large institutions increases volatility in the underlying securities, and that this increase reflects a rise of noise in stock prices.