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“Our food chain, our supply chain our just-in-time manufacturing approach doesn’t lead us to allow a lot of room for error,” said Phil Renaud, executive director at the Risk Institute. “So, if you don’t have the resilience approach to business then you will lose most likely market share. [Customers] will go elsewhere and it won’t take very long for that to happen.”

Ohio State and City of Columbus help launch Mod Squad, new handyman service. Mod Squad is a product of the C-Biz program. Launched in 2016, C-Biz is a partnership between Columbus City Council and Ohio State and Fisher designed to connect established, small and minority-owned businesses with students who can provide consulting and analytical services.

Rebuilding Together was one of the two small and minority-owned establishments that took part in a city-funded Ohio State University pilot for a program called C-Biz. Students at the school's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship did a marketing study.

The idea for the innovation center grew out of a conversation with Ohio State's Paul Reeder. Before the center, Ortiz and Redd would often post up at Mission Coffee Co. in Short North to work. When Reeder saw the duo’s coffee cups during a meeting, he said the ecosystem needed a place like Mission – where people felt comfortable sharing their ideas and collaborating.

“This is a continuation of long-term trends for the NRA,” said Brian Mittendorf, chair of the accounting department and the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting. “Revenues are down across the board, and the expenses aren’t down enough to cover it.”

Roy Hall, a former Ohio State wide receiver, who earned a Fisher College of Business degree in marketing and even had a few years of NFL experience to his credit, could have availed himself of the many opportunities that await a former Buckeye, but that kind of success didn’t interest him.

The innovation center trend began in technology-based industries, but is expanding as companies increasingly face “next generation consumer needs,” says Aravind Chandrasekaran, associate professor of operations and associate director of the Center for Operational Excellence at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. 

Research by Elliot Bendoly, a distinguished professor in the department of management sciences at Fisher and his colleague was aimed at managers seeking to improve productivity in the workplace. "Our minds are simply not wired to simultaneously perform two intricate tasks," the authors wrote.

Do top Indian companies hire professional CEOs on the basis of caste or religion? And does it matter for financial performance? Anil Makhija, dean and John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business, and his colleague Naga Lakshmi Damaraju offer some surprising insights on these important questions.

“What we are really witnessing is an eclipse not of public corporations, but of the public markets as the place where young successful American companies seek their funding,” says a recent study by René Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking & Monetary Economics at Fisher, and his colleagues.

“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 Fisher. “Without it you’d need to research each product and the time can add up.”

Curtis Haugtvedt, associate professor of marketing at Fisher, joins All Sides with Ann Fisher to discuss corporate activism and Nike's new “Just Do It” campaign, which features a former NFL player known for taking a knee during pregame performances of the national anthem to protesting racial injustice.

According to Selin Malkoc, associate professor of marketing, and her colleagues from Rutgers Business School, when it comes to enjoying leisure activities, research shows that classic time management strategies often backfire.

“I do think the figurehead role is growing, as are the expectations on the CEO,” says Tim Judge, executive director of the Fisher Leadership Initiative and the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness. “I think we expect them to walk a pretty fine line.”

René M. Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking & Monetary Economics at Fisher and publisher of a recent report for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the shrinking stock market, said there’s a definite concern for individual investors.

Thomas A. Stewart, of the National Center for the Middle Market, discusses middle-market deal activity and how executives can raise their M&A game.

There isn’t much evidence that suggests short-term reporting harms long-term goals. But corporate executives see quarterly reports in a different light, and investors are likely to overreact to disappointing earnings no matter how often they come around. Itzhak Ben-David, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, and his colleague have an even more-drastic idea: Companies should update their basic financial information — assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses — daily or even in real time. 

Firms as of late have found public markets a poor mechanism for evaluating intangible assets like brand names or research and development, Rene Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking & Monetary Economics at Fisher, wrote in a recent report for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

There's a surprisingly simple way to combat that in-a-rut feeling when it comes to exercise: Do the same thing in a new way, according to research by Fisher's Rob Smith.

Dr. Selin Malkoc, an associate professor of marketing and the lead author on the studies from Fisher says having the right balance of free time versus scheduled time in your daily planner is key to boosting productivity, and the precise ratio is different for each person.

Dave Freel, an ethics professor at Ohio State University and retired director of the Ohio Ethics Commission, said Steve Dettelbach, a Democrat running for Ohio attorney general took the proper actions to wall himself off from any true conflict of interest in the state's lawsuit against opioid manufacturers.

The American stock market has been shrinking. The market is half the size of its mid-1990s peak, and 25 percent smaller than it was in 1976. “This is troubling for the economy, for innovation and for transparence,” said René Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking & Monetary Economics.

In 1975, 109 companies collected half of the profits produced by all publicly traded companies. Today, those winnings are captured by just 30 companies, according to research by René M. Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking & Monetary Economics at Fisher, and his colleague, Kathleen M. Kahle.

Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, shares insights into cryptocurrency and its use by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, one of the first U.S. charities to accept donations of cryptocurrency.

If you want to be happy, don't make plans for your free time, says research by Selin Malkoc, associate professor of marketing. The key to happiness is 'rough scheduling' rather than firm plans.