Think for a moment about your best friends. Are they the same nationality as you? The same gender? The same ethnicity? Do they resemble you? Organizational psychologist Tanya Menon kicked off her TED Talk with questions such as these and entreated audience members to widen their social universes.

Using events reported as cyber-breaches, a team of international economists, which included Fisher's René Stulz, examined which firms are at highest risk of attack and what the consequences are.

Fisher's Selin Malkoc spoke with WalletHub about credit cards and what influences their rates.

Reseach by Isil Erel and Michael Weisbach examines whether advances in machine learning that have led to innovations ranging from facial recognition software to self-driving cars could also improve corporate governance.

“It includes SUVs, which is the fastest growing segment in the Chinese market,” says Oded Shenkar, a professor at Fisher. “And it includes plug-ins, because the Chinese definite strategy is to try if you want to capture leadership in the automotive market by leap-frogging into the next generation.”

The running back, actor, and entrepreneur is now an educator at Fisher College of Business, too — and he might be benefiting just as much as his students are.

Research by Fisher's Jasmine Hu and Kaifeng Jiang examines whether humble leaders make more effective leaders and whether their teams have better outcomes.

Full-time business student, part-time “Law & Order SVU” detective and ice cream connoisseur.”

“An observant theorist with a mediocre billiards game.”

Unfortunately, said Brian Mittendorf, the chair of the accounting department at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, the decline in NRA membership revenue isn't enough to indicate any change—decline or growth—in actual membership.

“As a result of the NRA’s precarious financial position the organization is now even more dependent on a small number of telemarketing firms to pump up membership rolls,” said Fisher's Brian Mittendorf. Those membership lists provide a source for other fund-raising campaigns.

Consider the proportion of publicly-traded corporations’ total income that comes from the top 100 firms. This percentage was 48.5 in 1975, according to research conducted by finance professors Kathleen Kahle and René Stulz, and only slightly higher in 1995 at 52.8 percent. Since then it has mushroomed, and by 2015 it stood at an astounding 84.2 percent.

“There is a lot of experimenting going on as everyone tries to figure out that last-mile delivery — it’s a tough economic equation to make work,” said Mike Knemeyer, a professor of logistics at Fisher. “But if you can, you’ll have a big head start on the others, and you’ll end up making money not just in groceries but on all of the things that you sell.”

A number of merchants use third-party vendors. It’s just another way to sell products online. Fisher's Deborah Mitchell said it’s part of the changing shopper landscape.

While some college students have hit the Suncoast with the beach in mind, a group of students from Fisher College of Business are giving up their beach time — to give back instead. 

Fisher's Deborah Mitchell shares insights into branding considerations companies face when they take political stances.

Roy Lewicki, professor emeritus of management and human resources at Fisher College of Business, started focusing on apologies in the wake of JetBlue's detailed explanation of a major equipment shutdown in New York, Tiger Woods's mea culpa for extramarital affairs, and British Petroleum's attempt to atone after the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Every quarter, the National Center for the Middle Market surveys 1,000 executives. One thing we ask is whether their company’s overall performance has improved, deteriorated or stayed the same in the past year.

Unlike private foundations, which generally must distribute at least 5 percent of their investments each year to operating charities, there is no grant-making requirement for donor-advised funds. Critics call them rest stops for charity dollars. Brian Mittendorf, an accounting professor at Ohio State University, said it’s “crazy” that large sponsors of donor-advised funds “are not subject to the same disclosure requirements that private foundations are.”

An outsized commitment to investing in innovation is a major distinguishing characteristic of “growth champions” of the mid-market—those 10 percent of companies identified by the National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM) as the biggest gainers over time.

In a recent paper, economists Söhnke Bartram, Gregory Brown and Fisher's René M. Stulz show that the increasing domination of public markets by large old companies — the superstars that economists are warning about — is responsible for the increasing correlations between stocks.

A group called the Risk Institute at Ohio State University is looking at what can be done to change habits and behaviors about cellphones and driving.

No one likes an egomaniac, but sometimes a little arrogance may be just what the C-suite needs. “To team members who expect leaders ... to take charge and give orders, humble leaders may be met with doubt,” says Fisher's Jasmine Hu.

The belief in the health power of expensive foods — or that healthy foods need to cost more — is misguided, according to Rebecca Reczek, a food psychologist and marketing researcher at Ohio State University.

“The stock market is what economists call a leading indicator of the business cycle, the real economy, while the labor market is a lagging indicator,” said Fisher's Lu Zhang, who has studied correlations between stock prices and the labor market.