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Pursuit is providing suits, dress shirts and accessories for the Team Shuster curling team that will represent the U.S. at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Pursuit, founded by a Fisher alumnus, is doing “the opposite of Super Bowl advertising,” said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of marketing at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business.

Professor Michael S. Weisbach, the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance at Fisher, recently published a book titled "The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance, Volume 1."

You can quit work commitments if you want – but some of them never really leave you, new research by Fisher's Howard Klein suggests.

According to research from Ben Tepper, a professor of management at Fisher, some employees can find success fighting back, to wrest that control from the bully -- it helps them fight that sense of victimization.

Several factors contributing to changes in the auto manufacturing market may result in foreign-based automakers making more vehicles in the United States than the companies based here, including increased popularity of trucks, according to Fisher's Peter Ward.

Many consumers have found a way to cope with the knowledge that products they like have been made unethically: They simply forget they ever knew it, according to research by Fisher's Rebecca Reczek and her colleagues.

Fisher's Brian Mittendorf explores examples of for-profit telemarketing companies accused of turning donations intended to support good causes into private gold mines.

Oded Shenkar, academic director of the National Center for the Middle Market, shares his insights into the importance of reputation among middle market firms.

Republicans’ tax overhaul could have long-lasting effects on how charities will raise money — and from whom they will raise money. Now, as the overhaul is headed to President Trump’s desk, many fundraisers are wondering what steps to take next in reaching out to donors. Here’s what the experts such as Fisher's Brian Mittendorf suggest.

People who see themselves as conscientious consumers often buy items made by companies that violate their values because it's hard to keep that information in mind, according to Fisher's Rebecca Walker Reczek and Daniel Zane and the University of Texas at Austin's Julie Irwin.

“The department store is having a very hard time,” said Deborah Mitchell, clinical associate professor of marketing at Ohio State University. Before, the department store was where you had to go if you wanted to look at a lot of different things. Internet sites now handle much of that, she said.

As the reckoning continues, people want to know: What can we do about sexual harassment? Based on research by Fisher's Bennett Tepper, Robert Sutton's answer is: Just avoid hiring potential troublemakers in the first place.

Continuing a proud legacy of thought leadership in management sciences at Fisher, Fisher’s Johnny Rungtusanatham was recently inducted as a Fellow by the Decision Sciences Institute.

Bernard “Bud” LaLonde, professor emeritus at Fisher College of Business and a recognized thought leader in logistics and supply chain management, passed away on December 1. He was 84.

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.

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.

“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.

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

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.