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Private equity firms are now sitting on a record amount of uninvested capital, which is good news for businesses seeking funds.

Thomas A. Stewart, executive director of the National Center for the Middle Market, examines the strategy behind data and how it can help your business make better decisions.

Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor in Accounting, shares insights into how financial statements detailing cryptocurrency assets at the Silicon Valley Foundation have not been transparently disclosed.

The new details about the NRA's financial dealings come after several reports about infighting and other signs of turmoil within the organization. Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor in Accounting, examined the organization's 2018 financial report and told The Washington Post that the documents depicted the organization like "a person living paycheck to paycheck."

Experts in crisis management say the damage to the Mount Carmel brand is significant but not beyond repair. Deborah Mitchell, who teaches marketing at Fisher College of Business, says there are plenty of examples of company brands surviving extraordinary damage. 

Apple wants consumers to view it as the privacy-centric tech company — but some security experts aren't impressed. Dennis Hirsch, a professor of law and Director of the Program on Data and Governance at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and research fellow at The Risk Institute, sees parallels to when big corporations made a push to make green products, and marketed them as so to win trust from consumers.

According to a forthcoming publication, extroverts tend to have consistent advantages over everyone else in the workplace, which jibes with other research on the benefits associated with extroversion. For example, extroverts are more likely to become leaders and to lead effectively, according Timothy Judge, the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness and executive director of the Fisher Leadership Initiative.

How do organizations remain committed to continuous improvement when the leader who championed lean strategies leaves? Researching within the health care industry, Aravind Chandrasekaran and John Toussaint identify a set of practices that can stop this backsliding and sustain a culture of continuous improvement after such departures.

United Ways throughout the nation have been working to gain a footing as charitable habits shift away from workplace giving. Wealthy donors have moved to donor-advised funds at financial firms, while many other donors — especially the young — increasingly give directly to nonprofit groups online or through crowdfunding events. Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor in Accounting, explains why.

New documents leaked about National Rifle Association top executive Wayne LaPierre's lavish clothing and travel expenses contrast with the culture of fear, poor pay and an underfunded pension described by former staffers. Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professor in Accounting, helped NPR review copies of 2019 NRA pension documents.

Warren Buffett has snubbed KBW’s Meyer Shields from participating in his annual conclave for years. Why? The answer may lie in a difference of investing philosophies. Lu Zhang, the John W. Galbreath Chair in Real Estate at Fisher, points out that Buffett’s stock picking is value-oriented, a countercyclical style that has been out of fashion for much of the past decade. “Ten years is just too short to suggest Buffett should change his strategy,” Zhang says. “Over the long term, Berkshire has beaten any index, any index, hands down.”

Selin Malkoc, a professor of marketing at Fisher, and her colleague discovered that when a leisure activity is planned, it’s less enjoyable than if it had taken place spontaneously: “It becomes a part of our to-do list. As an outcome, they [the activity] becomes less enjoyable," Malkoc said.

What seemed like a clear-cut research project on the “secret sauce” behind the greatest teams in sports history has evolved into a multi-year endeavor and bestselling book for Sam Walker, a Wall Street Journal columnist and one-time editor. Walker, who served as the kickoff keynote at The Ohio State University Center for Operational Excellence’s seventh-annual Leading Through Excellence summit, talked about the biggest takeaways from his book – and where the project is taking him next. 

Each year, The Ohio State University Center for Operational Excellence brings together hundreds of process improvement leaders from across the country for a deep dive into leadership and problem-solving best practices at its Leading Through Excellence summit. Check out photos from the center's seventh summit this past April.

Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, weighs in on a nonprofit's tax filings and the questions they raise about the organization's dealings with drugmakers.

The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis may be internal. Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, has analyzed 11 years’ worth of the organization’s public financial statements, starting in 2007. In seven of those years, he found “the N.R.A. owed more money to others than it had at its discretion to spend.” A financial audit from 2017 revealed that it had nearly reached the limit of a $25 million.

Every day in the U.S., approximately nine people are killed and more than 1,000 injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business is working to bring those numbers down.

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.”

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.

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.