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A total of 70 volunteers — including DHL employees, students from the Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business and volunteers from the Friends of Alum Creek Tributaries — helped plant seedlings around Alum Creek State Park as part of activities leading up to Earth Day. 

Exposure to international markets is a bonus for any business professional. According to Walter Zinn, associate dean for graduate studies and programs and professor of logistics at Fisher, it’s best for professionals to gain these experiences while in school for their MBA.

Andres Duany, the keynote speaker at the City of the Future conference hosted by The Ohio State University’s Center for Real Estate, said he was “stunned” to see so much development in Columbus since his last visit a decade ago. A pioneer of New Urbanist-style growth praised Columbus' development while knocking "NIMBYS" who resist change.

Terry Esper, associate professor of logistics at Fisher, says Columbus becomes even more attractive for companies that use a ship-to-consumer rather than a ship-to-store model: “The location is central to where people live, not just where they shop.”

The flexibility to customize an MBA at Fisher based on his interests, eventually helped Karthik Chandrasekaran (MBA  '18) land a job at EY as a senior management consultant.

Students in Fisher’s Full-Time MBA program had the opportunity to experience firsthand the reach of the Ohio State alumni network as part of a Tech Hop to San Francisco.

Freezing the flow of goods between the U.S. and Mexico would have a significant impact on Ohio because of the interconnectedness of global supply chains, according to Tom Goldsby, the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation Professor in Business at Fisher. 

Hilliard city leaders found  many people still don’t know how to use roundabouts. The leaders referenced research by the Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, which showed that when used properly roundabouts can save lives.

In coordination with Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the Risk Institute announced several projects and research to help predict and curb the deadly behaviors, including a coordinated nationwide effort comprised of dozens of companies, government entities, and researchers seeking to combine the latest research with industry expertise.

Fisher's Tanya Menon shares insights into how companies can structure their workplaces and their hiring practices to close the gap in the number of women hired for leadership roles.

Information Systems student Brett Miller and six other students from across Ohio State teamed up to tackle a capstone project, sponsored by Honda, that could help keep you zen behind the wheel.

Austin Ward, a third-year finance major, is working to inspire his community by sharing the many experiences he’s had at Ohio State and leaving things better than they were when he found them.

MBA students who start their studies this fall at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business will benefit from a newly redesigned curriculum that is more personalized, integrated and experiential than ever before. 

Christian McGhee discovered his potential at Ohio State, and now the Fisher student and recipient of the President's Prize, is fighting youth homelessness. 

Max Wasserman is a "proud Marine Corps veteran trying to become this generation’s Warren Buffett.” The finance student is also a member of Poets&Quants for Undergrads' Best & Brightest Class of 2019.

Alexandria Graham, is “a sushi enthusiast, Ohio State Buckeye fanatic, secret computer nerd and ambitious perfectionist.” The MIS student is also a member of Poets&Quants for Undergrads' Best & Brightest Class of 2019.

Thanks to the popularity of delivery services like GrubHub, UberEats and Amazon Prime Now, consumers are influencing companies’ supply chain strategies whether they know it or not.

In his research, Vince Castillo, assistant professor of logistics at Fisher, examined how crowdsourced delivery is impacting the most important — and costly — aspect of the retail supply chain.

Sarah Campbell, senior assistant director of MBA recruitment and admissions at Fisher College of Business, talks about the steps prospective graduate students should take to apply for an MBA.

A year ago, when Austin Culbertson applied to join what was then a new enrichment program at Fisher College of Business, he did so not knowing if — or how — he was going to fit in as an incoming first-year student at Ohio State. But a mentoring relationship through the Fisher FIRST program helped him adjust to his new home.

Jamie Mathews-Mead, senior director of graduate career management at Fisher, says leaning on career services can help MBA students articulate who they are, and connect the dots between their pre-MBA experiences, what they're learning in a program, their goals and how these fit employers' needs.

A Poets&Quants analysis of job placement rates at the top 50 U.S. business schools shows that the top five schools for placement rate 90 days after graduation are Washington Foster (99.1 percent), Fisher College of Business is second at 97.4 percent, and Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business (97.2 percent), USC’s Marshall School of Business (95.8 pecent), and the University of Florida’s Hough Graduate School of Business (95.7 percent) round out the top five.

For Jaja Liang, a Fisher student majoring in international business and marketing, having the opportunity to experience an eight-week global internship where she lived and worked in Southeast Asia was an amazing time that was made possible by donor support.

Alumnus Tim Keenan shares the motivation behind his generous commitment to creating The Ohio State University Tim and Kathleen Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship.