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If we’re to be labeled terrible drivers, at least we’re also doing our part to help change that. Right here in Columbus, the Risk Institute at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business has been leading a nationwide initiative to find the best ways to predict and curb distracted-driving behaviors. 

Before Christmas, the IRS issued guidance for what tax-exempt organizations will need to compute a potential tax on their parking lots. “There has been some relief in the form of IRS guidance that softens the blow but the rule has not been fully repealed,” said Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting.

Research by Roy Lewicki, the Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professor Emeritus at Fisher, found that there are six components to an apology and the more of them you include when you say you’re sorry, the more effective your apology will be.

High Bank Distillery has an offer as big as a billboard for Columbus Blue Jackets star Artemi Panarin: free vodka for life if he extends his contract with the team. The entire billboard idea is “brilliant,” said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of marketing at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.

As business responds to the #MeToo movement, are “love contracts” a good way to address workplace romances? Lecturer Rebecca Jacobs, who teaches Contemporary Employment Practices and the Law at Fisher, provides some insight.

Documents showed the NRA was $31.8 million in the red at the end of last year, thanks in large part to slower cash flow. The negative balance was a 10-year low, according to Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, who recently published an analysis on the group’s finances.

According to behavioral researchers, if our goal was to connect and make the most of our shared hours, we were doing everything wrong. Selin Malkoc, a professor of marketing at Fisher, and her colleague recommend not scheduling an exact time to rendezvous, but instead to try making arrangementson the fly.

Lu Zhang, the John W. Galbreath Chair in Real Estate and a finance professor at The Ohio State University, has something to say about your hot new index funds, and it may not be flattering. 

Meet some of the incoming Full-Time MBA students at Fisher College of Business, read their life journeys and goals, and why they're chosen Fisher for their MBA.

And as you ponder gift choices, you may want to consider whether this holiday season is an extra-special one for your recipients. At moments in life worth celebrating, material goods beat out experiences as gifts, according to researchers from Fisher's Selin Malkoc and her colleagues at Washington University, because those objects can evoke memories and feelings of meaningful events for years to come.

Bennett Tepper, the Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professorship at Fisher, and a colleague explore how envied employees can avoid being squashed down by the green-eyed boss.

The study by researchers at the Risk Institute at Ohio State University found that distracted driving raises the odds that a crash will cause severe injury or death, compared with other crashes, particularly if those distraction-related crashes involve rear-end collisions or occur in work zones o

WBNS-10TV Columbus highlights the students, faculty and staff who participated in service opportunities as part of Fisher Impact Day.

Leaders at midsize companies -- those with $10 million to $1 billion in revenue -- overwhelmingly say tariffs pose a threat to their business, according to a recent survey by the National Center for the Middle Market at The Ohio State University. Hence, a strategically timed rush to lock in prices before the higher tariffs kick in. 

When it comes to private equity, governments nationwide and their retirees may not actually be getting what they pay for. That at least is the conclusion of a new study by Michael Weisbach, the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance at Fisher, and his colleagues.

Terry Esper, associate professor of logistics at Fisher, talks about central Ohio's location as being essential as more retail shifts online: "As we see more and more companies getting products out and to consumers and shipping directly to homes, we're seeing the strategic locations of those [distribution centers] as a very vital part of sucess in this new economy."

Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, who studies the NRA’s financial statements, said the group does not appear to be facing an immediate fiscal crisis. But he said multiple years of declining net assets raise concerns: The organization will need to scale down its spending or find new sources of revenue.

Leaders at midsize companies -- those with $10 million to $1 billion in revenue -- overwhelmingly say tariffs pose a threat to their business, according to a recent survey by the National Center for the Middle Market at The Ohio State University. 

“For firms with high passive ownership, you have lower reaction to company-specific news,” said Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate at Fisher who’s studied the topic. “When everybody pulls money out of the market or gets into the market, the tide lifts all boats.”

The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business established the Specialized Master of Business degree program in Business Analytics (SMB-A) to help professionals develop a mix of business and analytics expertise to study data and produce actionable insights.

As technology reshapes the work of the supply chain manager, so-called “soft skills”, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, interpersonal effectiveness and empathy, are increasingly important, says Keely Croxton, associate professor of logistics at Fisher.

Typically, according to Robert Smith, an author of the study from The Ohio State University, as people get used to eating something, they enjoy the food less as time goes on. 

Private foundations have two advantages — donors can use a foundation to “make a big splash publicly” and rally people around their cause, while also locking in “immediate tax deductibility,” said Brian Mittendorf, chair of the accounting department at Fisher and the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting.

“As shoppers we are often in a hurry, so much so that we might not even be aware of how quickly we make a decision. That’s where clear labeling can help,” said Rebecca Walker Reczek, professor of marketing at Ohio State University. “Without it you’d need to research each product and the time can add up.”

That price point and several other factors should make the new prescription eyewear a huge success, said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of marketing at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.