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May 31, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Center for Real Estate events explore industry application, research
Two signature events recently hosted by the Ohio State Center for Real Estate demonstrated its commitment to serving as a valuable link and a resource
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May 11, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
AMIS welcomes business leaders during academic year
Throughout the 2017-2018 academic year, the Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems (AMIS) welcomed a number of distinguished business leaders — three of whom are AMIS alums.
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May 10, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Innovation Summit tackles building an entrepreneurial culture
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.
May 9, 2018
Poets&Quants
Poets&Quants
The big picture in business analytics
The KPMG Master of Accounting program, a joint effort with Villanova University’s School of Business and The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, funnels undergraduates into the program with a focus on data analytics.
May 3, 2018
Barron's
Barron's
Small businesses most confident in years; larger ones have even more swagger
Tom Stewart, executive director of NCMM, observed a similar pattern among the subgroups in his report: larger companies were more confident.
May 1, 2018
BizEd
BizEd
When accounting met analytics
KPMG is partnering with business schools such as Fisher College of Business to create master’s programs that update a traditional field with the latest technology.
April 26, 2018
Forbes
Forbes
Three strategies to help your midsize company 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.
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April 23, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Students excel at real estate case competitions
Two teams of real estate-focused students took advantage of opportunities to expand their knowledge and experience in the field, as they participated in a pair of national case competitions.
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April 19, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Students reflect on trip to Japan, global offerings at Fisher
When Joe Latkovich transferred to Ohio State in 2015, he knew what he wanted in a global experience — immersion and convenience.Presented with the opp
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April 17, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Center for Real Estate event explores leadership in business
Fisher students, faculty, staff and members of the business community received first-hand lessons about principled leadership in the face of extreme a
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April 16, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Creating coast-to-coast career connections
MBA student Rajat Gugnani reflects on creating a career trek to Washington state and the opportunity it provided to graduate students at Fisher to connect with industry leaders Amazon, Expedia, Microsoft and Starbucks.
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April 13, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Fisher honors its partners in diversity and inclusion
The 17th Annual Fisher College of Business Diversity Awards Reception and Luncheon recently recognized those individuals and corporations that have wo
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March 27, 2018
The Peggy Smedley Show
The Peggy Smedley Show
The behavior behind distracted driving
In advance of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Peggy interviews Phil Renaud, executive director for The Risk Institute at Ohio State University, who says distracted driving is a behavioral challenge.
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March 13, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Fisher brings home KeyBank Minority Case Competition title
It had been awhile — 13 years to be exact — since Fisher College of Business last claimed the top spot in the KeyBank Minority MBA Case Competition. I
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February 26, 2018
Smart Business
Smart Business
Navigating a tighter labor market
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.
February 23, 2018
Chief Executive
Chief Executive
R&D is fueling innovation culture
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.
February 21, 2018
WBNS-10TV
WBNS-10TV
What researchers are doing to tackle distracted driving
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.
February 5, 2018
Columbus CEO
Columbus CEO
All In
After a year of doubt, sacrifice and reinvention, does CrossChx's Sean Lane finally have his billion-dollar idea in Columbus, an area that Fisher's Bill Diffenderffer says "is not the city that it was when I first got here 12 years ago."
February 3, 2018
Crain's Cleveland Business
Crain's Cleveland Business
Living large in the middle market
Life is good for middle market companies. That would be the short story from the recent National Center for the Middle Market survey.
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January 29, 2018
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Honors Cohort gains global experience in Brazil
Opportunities to experience business on a global scale remains a critical part of the student experience for undergraduate and graduate students at Fisher. Madeline Furash, a fourth-year student and member of Fisher’s Honors Cohort program, shared a recap of the program’s recent International Expedition to Brazil.
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January 10, 2018
NiSource
NiSource
Ohio State's new partnership with NiSource is shining brighter light onto safety
Recently, NiSource teamed up with business data analytics students at The Ohio State University to find ways to further extract trends from data. Overseen by a former IBM executive, two groups of juniors and seniors were tasked with finding factors around why and when work injuries occur.
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November 30, 2017
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Global Trade Network connects Fisher with former Chinese ambassador
Building on its commitment to providing students, faculty and staff at Fisher with opportunities to build their global competencies, the college’s Global Trade Network recently brought to campus He Yafei, a recognized diplomat and official within the government of the People’s Republic of China.
November 30, 2017
CSO
CSO
What midsize companies need to understand about cybersecurity threats
According to a 2016 survey of more than 1,000 C-suite mid-market executives by the National Center for the Middle Market, more than half of U.S. middle market companies did not have an “up-to-date” strategy to address cybersecurity risks, while 30 percent had no action plan at all.
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November 28, 2017
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Student leaders shape Fisher Impact Day though service
Fisher is burgeoning with emerging leaders, many of whom recently worked to make the college’s day of service into something truly exceptional. C.J. Stover and Brady Ellis were among those students who helped shape Fisher Impact Day, an event in which more than 880 members of the Fisher community dispersed across campus and throughout central Ohio to serve various organizations.
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November 28, 2017
Fisher College of Business
Fisher College of Business
Partnership brings entrepreneurship to prison
Making her way through security at the Southeastern Correctional Institution (SCI) in Lancaster last August, Erin Halleran wasn’t unnerved by the chai