As if we needed more reasons to love our coffee, researchers have discovered that people work better together under the influence of coffee.

See how The Risk Institute at Fisher College of Business is leading the discussion to combat the issue of distracted driving.

Good teamwork begins with a cup of coffee for everyone, a new study suggests. Researchers, including Amit Singh, co-author of the study and a doctoral student in marketing at Fisher, found that people gave more positive reviews for their group’s performance on a task — and their own contribution — if they drank caffeinated coffee beforehand. 

In 1975 the percentage of corporate profits that came from the top 100 U.S. firms was 48.5 percent, according to research conducted by finance professors Kathleen Kahle of the University of Arizona and René Stulz of Ohio State.

Research by Selin Malkoc finds that upcoming meetings hinder progress and stop you from being productive.

Research by Selin Malkoc and her colleagues found, in a series of eight tests, that time seems shorter to people when it comes immediately before a scheduled task or appointment. Therefore when we have a meeting booked in our diary, we’re inclined to do less work and fill the time prior to the meeting with minor tasks, rather than knuckle down and complete something productive. 

Using research by Fisher's Robert Lount which showed friends tended to perform better than teams made up of strangers, the Times examines the many dynamics of office friendships.

In a series of studies, both in the lab and real life, researchers including Fisher's Selin Malkoc found that free time seems shorter to people when it comes before a task or appointment on their calendar.

Artificial intelligence has the opportunity to diversify boards and remove the bias of executives choosing who they know. The Risk Institute at the Ohio State University has done extensive research on using machine learning to hire and select board directors.

"For now, expect the Chinese to go back to buying lots of U.S. soybeans and Boeing aircraft, a big-ticket item that can move the needle," said Oded Shenkar, a China expert and business professor. "But what else can the Chinese buy from the U.S.?"

"Oftentimes we forget that leadership is about relationships," says Jasmine Hu, an associate professor of management at Fisher. "It is not just what team leaders want to provide to their members. It is also what team members want or expect from their leaders."

Attendees at The Ohio State University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Innovation Summit 2018 received a series of first-hand insights into how companies have successfully built entrepreneurial cultures.

A new study, co-authored by Rene Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at Fisher, explores these issues through a massive sample of data breaches that affected U.S. public corporations from 2005 through 2014 and examines the repercussions three years out.

The Fisher Leadership Initiative has taken a groundbreaking step forward in the advancement of leadership research and practice with the creation of the International Leadership Consortium (ILC).

Tom Stewart, executive director of NCMM, observed a similar pattern among the subgroups in his report: larger companies were more confident.

Fisher's Rebecca Walker Reczek, Daniel Zane and their colleagues find that consumers are more likely to forget when a product is made unethically than when a product is made ethically.

Humans naturally seek out cliques or in-groups. But Fisher's Tanya Menon encourages us to break out of our social comfort zones, for wider opportunities to grow.

“The United States is experiencing the third-longest period of interrupted growth in its economic history, and this has been led by mid-market companies,” says Thomas Stewart, NCMM’s executive director.

“Underwriters don’t have the tools to measure the risk properly,” explained Phil Renaud, executive director at the Risk Institute. Renaud said he expects the industry to catch up quickly, primarily with embedded technology of its own. “No one in the market is actually forcing them to change.”

Neeli Bendapudi may have spent the past few years in Kansas, but she can still list of many of Central Ohio's top business leaders by nickname. The former Fisher faculty member was named this month as the new president of the University of Louisville.

Shashi Matta says that above all else, a tagline “...should embody the brand’s value proposition, which in turn must be driven by the organization’s ‘most value insight’ about its customers. That insight must lead the organization to articulate the most compelling way it can add value to the consumer’s life."

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.