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A new study, co-authored by Rene Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at Fisher, explores these issues through a massive sample of data breaches that affected U.S. public corporations from 2005 through 2014 and examines the repercussions three years out.

The Fisher Leadership Initiative has taken a groundbreaking step forward in the advancement of leadership research and practice with the creation of the International Leadership Consortium (ILC).

Tom Stewart, executive director of NCMM, observed a similar pattern among the subgroups in his report: larger companies were more confident.

Fisher's Rebecca Walker Reczek, Daniel Zane and their colleagues find that consumers are more likely to forget when a product is made unethically than when a product is made ethically.

Humans naturally seek out cliques or in-groups. But Fisher's Tanya Menon encourages us to break out of our social comfort zones, for wider opportunities to grow.

“The United States is experiencing the third-longest period of interrupted growth in its economic history, and this has been led by mid-market companies,” says Thomas Stewart, NCMM’s executive director.

“Underwriters don’t have the tools to measure the risk properly,” explained Phil Renaud, executive director at the Risk Institute. Renaud said he expects the industry to catch up quickly, primarily with embedded technology of its own. “No one in the market is actually forcing them to change.”

Neeli Bendapudi may have spent the past few years in Kansas, but she can still list of many of Central Ohio's top business leaders by nickname. The former Fisher faculty member was named this month as the new president of the University of Louisville.

Shashi Matta says that above all else, a tagline “...should embody the brand’s value proposition, which in turn must be driven by the organization’s ‘most value insight’ about its customers. That insight must lead the organization to articulate the most compelling way it can add value to the consumer’s life."

Think for a moment about your best friends. Are they the same nationality as you? The same gender? The same ethnicity? Do they resemble you? Organizational psychologist Tanya Menon kicked off her TED Talk with questions such as these and entreated audience members to widen their social universes.

Using events reported as cyber-breaches, a team of international economists, which included Fisher's René Stulz, examined which firms are at highest risk of attack and what the consequences are.

Fisher's Selin Malkoc spoke with WalletHub about credit cards and what influences their rates.

Reseach by Isil Erel and Michael Weisbach examines whether advances in machine learning that have led to innovations ranging from facial recognition software to self-driving cars could also improve corporate governance.

“It includes SUVs, which is the fastest growing segment in the Chinese market,” says Oded Shenkar, a professor at Fisher. “And it includes plug-ins, because the Chinese definite strategy is to try if you want to capture leadership in the automotive market by leap-frogging into the next generation.”

Research by Fisher's Jasmine Hu and Kaifeng Jiang examines whether humble leaders make more effective leaders and whether their teams have better outcomes.

Customers tend to be far more comfortable fuming online about a “faceless” business, Fisher's Rebecca Reczek says, than “aggressively complaining to someone face-to-face who might actually be quite similar to them.”

Unfortunately, said Brian Mittendorf, the chair of the accounting department at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, the decline in NRA membership revenue isn't enough to indicate any change—decline or growth—in actual membership.

“As a result of the NRA’s precarious financial position the organization is now even more dependent on a small number of telemarketing firms to pump up membership rolls,” said Fisher's Brian Mittendorf. Those membership lists provide a source for other fund-raising campaigns.

In advance of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Peggy interviews Phil Renaud, executive director for The Risk Institute at Ohio State University, who says distracted driving is a behavioral challenge.

The Fisher Leadership Initiative (FLI) has launched Lead Read Today, a new platform dedicated to advancing the study and practice of principled leadership.

Do you still think about prior commitments you’ve had at work? Academic Minute speaks with Ohio State University's Howard Klein, who discusses the need for businesses to help employees feel good about moving on.

Consider the proportion of publicly-traded corporations’ total income that comes from the top 100 firms. This percentage was 48.5 in 1975, according to research conducted by finance professors Kathleen Kahle and René Stulz, and only slightly higher in 1995 at 52.8 percent. Since then it has mushroomed, and by 2015 it stood at an astounding 84.2 percent.

“There is a lot of experimenting going on as everyone tries to figure out that last-mile delivery — it’s a tough economic equation to make work,” said Mike Knemeyer, a professor of logistics at Fisher. “But if you can, you’ll have a big head start on the others, and you’ll end up making money not just in groceries but on all of the things that you sell.”