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According to a 2016 survey of more than 1,000 C-suite mid-market executives by the National Center for the Middle Market, more than half of U.S. middle market companies did not have an “up-to-date” strategy to address cybersecurity risks, while 30 percent had no action plan at all.

Building on its commitment to providing students, faculty and staff at Fisher with opportunities to build their global competencies, the college’s Global Trade Network recently brought to campus He Yafei, a recognized diplomat and official within the government of the People’s Republic of China.

Researchers studying workplaces in China found that some real-life teams showed more creativity if the employees rated their bosses as showing more humility. Humble leaders are most effective when team members expect a low degree of distance between the leaders and followers, according to Fisher's Jasmine Hu.

Fisher is burgeoning with emerging leaders, many of whom recently worked to make the college’s day of service into something truly exceptional. C.J. Stover and Brady Ellis were among those students who helped shape Fisher Impact Day, an event in which more than 880 members of the Fisher community dispersed across campus and throughout central Ohio to serve various organizations.

Small-business owners are at the heart of a collaboration between the Ohio State Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Columbus City Council. The C-Biz project is being developed to provide technical assistance to small, minority-owned businesses located in six central-city neighborhoods that could use some commercial revitalization.

Started this year as a pilot project at the Southeastern Correctional Institution outside Lancaster, the Ohio Prison Entrepreneurship Program is a collaboration between the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business.

“The teams we grow up with are the teams we love most,” said Joseph Goodman, an assistant professor of marketing and logistics at Fisher. “People love the Buckeyes because they went to school at OSU, or their mom or dad used to take them to games growing up. Those formidable years are when fans are literally born.”

People who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often find it difficult to stay organized, meet deadlines, and plan details of their everyday lives. A new study by Fisher's Itzhak Ben-David and his colleagues suggests ADHD can also have negative effects on adults' financial behavior, like missing credit payments and issues maintaining employment.

In 2009-2010, the housing crisis was at its worst: an average of nearly 300,000 new foreclosures were started every month during those two years. But those numbers should have been higher, according to a paper co-authored by Fisher's Itzhak Ben-David and his colleagues.

It’s a claim that has been hotly disputed and fiercely debated by the day: Have ETFs gotten too big for their own good, making them an unappreciated risk in the event of a market decline? Heavy ETF ownership “may increase the nonfundamental volatility of the securities in their baskets,” according to recent research by Fisher's Itzhak Ben-David and his colleagues.

“The biggest thing once I made my decision to come to Ohio State was to make sure I got my degree because it’s a highly touted, highly respected business school here, Fisher,” senior Billy Price said. “I wanted to enjoy the process.”

Hosted by The Ohio State University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the 2017 Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein Entrepreneurial Leadership Summit explored pathways to entrepreneurship in Ohio and brought together leaders and bright minds to discuss ways the state can foster new ideas, technologies and solutions.

Whether creating care packages for servicemembers overseas, making no-sew blankets for sick and disadvantaged children or beautifying parts of Columbus, hundreds of Fisher students, faculty and staff spent the Veterans Day holiday serving the community as part of Fisher Impact Day.

Joseph Goodman, assistant professor of marketing at Fisher, answers questions about photo credit card options available to consumers.

Students, faculty and researchers at Fisher College of Business are benefiting from unique opportunities to engage with a leader in the automotive industry, as the college and Honda of America have teamed up in a number of ways.

More listed companies chose to sell to rivals to get bigger, and fewer opted for IPOs in the first place. The result is that the average listed company is far bigger than it was, and there are far fewer very small companies, data from René Stulz, director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics at Ohio State University, shows.

The technology that’s making autonomous vehicles possible isn’t new, said Tom Goldsby, chair of the Department of Marketing and Logistics at Fisher. Instead, it’s been a process of steady technological improvements over a span of decades.

A group of Ohio State University students helped Michael Watkins better market his electrical contracting business as he gears up to hire an employee and double the jobs he can take on. The city of Columbus is investing $100,000 to figure out how the student program itself can expand to help more than two small businesses at a time.

Lu Zhang and his colleagues, Kewei Hou and Chen Xue have been making waves in the investing community with a paper published earlier this year that challenges much of the research out there about market “anomalies.” They spent nearly three years compiling and replicating 447 market anomalies identified in academic literature.

Presented by the National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM), the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Fisher and other partners, the 2017 Global Summit event drew experts from across the country to share workforce insights and leading research.