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Itzhak Ben-David, a finance professor at Fisher, presented a paper that showed that when a company joins a major index both its ETF ownership and volatility goes up, and when it leaves its ETF ownership and volatility goes down. “No one doubts this [the ETF] is a great innovation, but at the same time it could have some unintended consequences,” Prof Ben-David said at the conference.

Life is good for middle market companies. That would be the short story from the recent National Center for the Middle Market survey. 

Fisher's Black MBA Association (BMBAA) hosted its annual Legends Lecture Series throughout February, providing faculty, staff, and graduate and PhD students an opportunity to engage with leaders who bring an element of diversity to business as well as unique career and life experiences. 

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.

If given the choice to learn about where everyday goods come from, most people opt for ignorance. And if they are made aware of unethical practices, odds are they forget the uncomfortable truth by their next checkout, according to new research by Fisher's Rebecca Reczek.

Pursuit is providing suits, dress shirts and accessories for the Team Shuster curling team that will represent the U.S. at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Pursuit, founded by a Fisher alumnus, is doing “the opposite of Super Bowl advertising,” said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of marketing at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business.

Fisher College of Business was among the schools highlighted by Poets&Quants as one that is ready to climb in the rankings and generate greater student interest in the coming year.

Seasoned professionals passing along wisdom to younger minds is a critical part of education and development. As Fisher College of Business marks National Mentoring Month, several students are benefitting from the guidance of alumni and their fellow students.

Professor Michael S. Weisbach, the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance at Fisher, recently published a book titled "The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance, Volume 1."

You can quit work commitments if you want – but some of them never really leave you, new research by Fisher's Howard Klein suggests.

According to research from Ben Tepper, a professor of management at Fisher, some employees can find success fighting back, to wrest that control from the bully -- it helps them fight that sense of victimization.

Several factors contributing to changes in the auto manufacturing market may result in foreign-based automakers making more vehicles in the United States than the companies based here, including increased popularity of trucks, according to Fisher's Peter Ward.

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.

Many consumers have found a way to cope with the knowledge that products they like have been made unethically: They simply forget they ever knew it, according to research by Fisher's Rebecca Reczek and her colleagues.

Fisher's Brian Mittendorf explores examples of for-profit telemarketing companies accused of turning donations intended to support good causes into private gold mines.

Waleed Muhanna and Greg Allenby saw a need in the modern workforce, and they were well-positioned to do something about it.

Oded Shenkar, academic director of the National Center for the Middle Market, shares his insights into the importance of reputation among middle market firms.

People who see themselves as conscientious consumers often buy items made by companies that violate their values because it's hard to keep that information in mind, according to Fisher's Rebecca Walker Reczek and Daniel Zane and the University of Texas at Austin's Julie Irwin.

Republicans’ tax overhaul could have long-lasting effects on how charities will raise money — and from whom they will raise money. Now, as the overhaul is headed to President Trump’s desk, many fundraisers are wondering what steps to take next in reaching out to donors. Here’s what the experts such as Fisher's Brian Mittendorf suggest.

Fisher College of Business has honored Andrea Evans and Katie Reynolds with Coykendale Awards, which are presented each year as part of the college’s ongoing commitment to recognize and reward dedicated staff members.

“The department store is having a very hard time,” said Deborah Mitchell, clinical associate professor of marketing at Ohio State University. Before, the department store was where you had to go if you wanted to look at a lot of different things. Internet sites now handle much of that, she said.