In coordination with Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the Risk Institute announced several projects and research to help predict and curb the deadly behaviors, including a coordinated nationwide effort comprised of dozens of companies, government entities, and researchers seeking to combine the latest research with industry expertise.

Fisher's Tanya Menon shares insights into how companies can structure their workplaces and their hiring practices to close the gap in the number of women hired for leadership roles.

Thanks to the popularity of delivery services like GrubHub, UberEats and Amazon Prime Now, consumers are influencing companies’ supply chain strategies whether they know it or not.

In his research, Vince Castillo, assistant professor of logistics at Fisher, examined how crowdsourced delivery is impacting the most important — and costly — aspect of the retail supply chain.

Research by Grant Donnelly, assistant professor of marketing, suggests that simply telling colleagues "I don't have time" for their requests can make them feel less valued and less likely to trust you.

Achievement, excellence and demonstrated leadership by Fisher students and faculty were recently recognized at the college’s 2019 Pace Setters Awards event.

Darren Roulstone, the John W. Berry, Sr. Fund for Faculty Excellence Professor of Accounting, shares insights into Fisher's accounting PhD program.

Dennis Hirsch, a fellow at The Risk Institute, a professor of law and head of Ohio State's Program on Data and Governance, shared insights about the challenges posed by this new data economy.

A boss who “demands” excellence is no more likely to produce it than the boss who requests or nurtures it, and likely less so, the research suggests. Demanding excellence often is just a handy excuse, said Bennett Tepper, the Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professorship at Fisher and a leading researcher of the effects of abusive leadership.

The Risk Institute, Moritz College of Law, Fisher College of Business and the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences recently collaborated to examine — through an interdisciplinary lens — the legal, business and economic consequences of U.S. trade policy at the Economic Nationalism and Trade Conference at The Ohio State University.

Do you know yourself? Oded Shenkar, the Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management at Fisher and academic director of the National Center for the Middle Market, lays out the inherent advantages and disadvantages of middle-market firms.

The best way to make life-changing connections is to make yourself uncomfortable. Tanya Menon, an associate professor at Fisher who has 1.7 million views on her TEDx talk, "The Secret to Great Opportunities? The Person You Haven’t Met Yet," says we are creatures of habit. 

The National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM) at The Ohio State University officially announced that Chubb, the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company, has joined Grant Thornton and Cisco as a 2019 sponsor.

Recent analysis by Rene Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at Fisher, and Tulane's Robert Prilmeier suggests that the shift away from public equity markets is also occurring in debt markets — and that many of the same forces causing a decline in the number of publicly traded firms are also causing companies to shift away from issuing public bonds and instead to seek out private loans from banks.

After some famous — and infamous — Super Bowl ads, central Ohio companies are sitting out this year's broadcast. “To really make it pay off these days, you have to invest in in-store displays, social media, have a really coordinated investment of time and people,” said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of marketing at Fisher. “A lot of firms say they can use the money, time and staff in a better way.”

Making cannabis industry employment more diverse requires grappling with decades of inequitable enforcement of a product that's still federally illegal, according to a panel of business and legal leaders hosted by the Ohio State law school's Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and Fisher's Center for Innovation Strategies. 

If we’re to be labeled terrible drivers, at least we’re also doing our part to help change that. Right here in Columbus, the Risk Institute at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business has been leading a nationwide initiative to find the best ways to predict and curb distracted-driving behaviors. 

Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, shares insights into the first product in which a financial return might be earned through an investment in a nonprofit.

Before Christmas, the IRS issued guidance for what tax-exempt organizations will need to compute a potential tax on their parking lots. “There has been some relief in the form of IRS guidance that softens the blow but the rule has not been fully repealed,” said Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting.

Data from the fourth-quarter Middle Market Indicator released by the National Center for the Middle Market reveals that both revenue and employment growth rates have fallen since last quarter.

Research by Roy Lewicki, the Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professor Emeritus at Fisher, found that there are six components to an apology and the more of them you include when you say you’re sorry, the more effective your apology will be.

In a recent study, Fisher's Selin Malkoc said, “All the advice tells you not to dwell on your mistakes, to not feel bad. But we found the opposite. When faced with a failure, it is better to focus on one’s emotions – when people concentrate on how bad they feel and how they don’t want to experience these feelings again, they are more likely to try harder the next time.”

As his tenure as president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) concluded in 2018, Professor Nick Hall received unique recognition for his service and a powerful reminder of the vast reach of the Fisher alumni network.

High Bank Distillery has an offer as big as a billboard for Columbus Blue Jackets star Artemi Panarin: free vodka for life if he extends his contract with the team. The entire billboard idea is “brilliant,” said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of marketing at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.

Stop squandering the seconds, minutes and hours in your day. Fisher's Selin Malkoc shows you how to make the most of your time and get things done.

As business responds to the #MeToo movement, are “love contracts” a good way to address workplace romances? Lecturer Rebecca Jacobs, who teaches Contemporary Employment Practices and the Law at Fisher, provides some insight.