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“The stock market is what economists call a leading indicator of the business cycle, the real economy, while the labor market is a lagging indicator,” said Fisher's Lu Zhang, who has studied correlations between stock prices and the labor market.

For thousands of athletes around the world, the 2018 Olympic Winter Games represent the ultimate stage on which to shine. For Nate DeMars, the founder of Pursuit, a clothing start-up based in Columbus and rooted at Fisher, the Pyeongchang games are simply about making others look good.

Drawing on research from his recently published book, Fisher’s Oded Shenkar shared his insights to a university-wide audience as part of The Ohio State University Institute for Chinese Studies’ “Re-Imagining China’s Past and Present” lecture series.

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."

Led by world-class faculty researchers and innovative graduate student programming, Fisher is taking steps to blend and prepare students with the business insights and STEM skills they need to succeed as future leaders.

Few individuals can say that they are an integral part of selecting a winner for what is largely considered the “Nobel Prize for Economics.” But, a lifetime of financial research and study has uniquely positioned Fisher’s Ingrid Werner for that opportunity.

According to Ohio State researchers Itzhak (Zahi) Ben-David and Dr. Theordore P. Beauchaine, and a colleague at the University of Florida, adults with ADHD may struggle financially.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.