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For most of his adult life, Phil Cobb (BSBA ’65) has been an entrepreneur. He built a highly successful restaurant chain and then launched a nonprofit historic streetcar system. But his journey in life didn’t start out with the clear goal of being a business owner. Rather, a combination of his family’s entrepreneurial spirit and his undergraduate education at The Ohio State University helped mold Cobb into the success he is today.

"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."

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.

Undergraduate and graduate Accounting and Management Information Systems students at Fisher celebrated their accomplishments as members of the Class of 2018 at a variety of college- and university-led events.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

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.