Selin Malkoc, a professor of marketing at Fisher, and her colleague discovered that when a leisure activity is planned, it’s less enjoyable than if it had taken place spontaneously: “It becomes a part of our to-do list. As an outcome, they [the activity] becomes less enjoyable," Malkoc said.

What seemed like a clear-cut research project on the “secret sauce” behind the greatest teams in sports history has evolved into a multi-year endeavor and bestselling book for Sam Walker, a Wall Street Journal columnist and one-time editor. Walker, who served as the kickoff keynote at The Ohio State University Center for Operational Excellence’s seventh-annual Leading Through Excellence summit, talked about the biggest takeaways from his book – and where the project is taking him next. 

Each year, The Ohio State University Center for Operational Excellence brings together hundreds of process improvement leaders from across the country for a deep dive into leadership and problem-solving best practices at its Leading Through Excellence summit. Check out photos from the center's seventh summit this past April.

Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, weighs in on a nonprofit's tax filings and the questions they raise about the organization's dealings with drugmakers.

The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis may be internal. Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, has analyzed 11 years’ worth of the organization’s public financial statements, starting in 2007. In seven of those years, he found “the N.R.A. owed more money to others than it had at its discretion to spend.” A financial audit from 2017 revealed that it had nearly reached the limit of a $25 million.

Every day in the U.S., approximately nine people are killed and more than 1,000 injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business is working to bring those numbers down.

Andres Duany, the keynote speaker at the City of the Future conference hosted by The Ohio State University’s Center for Real Estate, said he was “stunned” to see so much development in Columbus since his last visit a decade ago. A pioneer of New Urbanist-style growth praised Columbus' development while knocking "NIMBYS" who resist change.

Terry Esper, associate professor of logistics at Fisher, says Columbus becomes even more attractive for companies that use a ship-to-consumer rather than a ship-to-store model: “The location is central to where people live, not just where they shop.”

Freezing the flow of goods between the U.S. and Mexico would have a significant impact on Ohio because of the interconnectedness of global supply chains, according to Tom Goldsby, the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation Professor in Business at Fisher. 

Hilliard city leaders found  many people still don’t know how to use roundabouts. The leaders referenced research by the Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, which showed that when used properly roundabouts can save lives.

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.”