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Fisher College of Business joined with The Ohio State University community in celebrating the many accomplishments of the Class of 2018 as part of spring commencement activities.

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.

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).

Fisher's Sankha Ghosh was selected one of Poets&Quants' Best & Brightest MBAs, the publication's fourth annual celebration of students who’ve made a lasting impact on their business schools.

“(Amazon is) one of the smartest companies on the planet, and it has become a training ground for MBAs,” says Shashi Matta, faculty director of the MBA program at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. “They are absolutely hungry for talent and growth.”

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

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.

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.

For Batmandah Mangalam, successful innovation can be traced to two key skills — flexibility and collaboration. Mangalam, a second-year finance student, was one of nearly 50 students from across Ohio State who participated in the first-ever Innovation Challenge.

Students from Ohio State, other local universities and members of the business community recently discovered the truth behind some myths in the marketing world as part of the Columbus Advertising & Marketing Practicum.

“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.

Four years ago, Erin Halleran knew what she wanted in a college. Halleran, a member of the Class of 2018, shares how Fisher and Ohio State helped nurture her passion for social entrepreneurship and equipped her with the skills to lead.

Ohio State’s Office of Student Life shares the story of Ari Vandersluis, an operations management student and a member of the Class of 2018, who has had a positive impact across the university.

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.

“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.

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.

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.