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Who better to connect with Fisher students and share career advice than the alumni who remember their pursuit of their first post-graduate job? Thanks to Fisher’s Office of Career Management, these valuable conversations are happening.

See how a longstanding partnership between Ohio State and Deloitte continues to shape the career readiness of Fisher students through a program designed to foster the soft skills necessary in today’s business world.

Over the past year and a half, the restrictions implemented due to COVID-19 put many people’s goals, dreams, and ambitions on hold. Classes were cancelled, acceptances were postponed, and no one knew when to start pursuing their passions again. However, The Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business is making sure no student ever has to press pause on their dreams again thanks to its new, highly flexible Online Working Professional MBA.

Fixing the broken supply chain will take time and patience, substantial amounts of money, imagination by key leaders in the transportation and logistics industry and significant policy changes. Terry Esper, associate professor of logistics, says he’s encouraged that federal and local officials seek to spend more than $1 trillion on infrastructure to rebuild highways, roads, bridges and ports.

Meet the students and young alumni navigating one of the tightest job markets in history — and the OCM services that helped them thrive.

How can business and education converge to combat racism in public schools and drive meaningful change? The Leading Anti-Racism Change in Education program is piloting one approach and helping local school districts solve specific challenges.

First impressions matter. Lori Castillo wasn’t anywhere near Ohio when Fisher showcased its commitment to student diversity, equity and inclusion. That lasting impression heavily influenced the Texas native’s decision to become a Business Buckeye.

Tanya Menon, professor of management and human resources, shares tips and insights designed to empower women to advocate and negotiate for themselves.

Terry Esper, associate professor of logistics, says taking a consumer-centric approach to the supply chain does not mean that companies should abandon their focus on their direct customer. Instead, they should adopt a perspective similar to bifocal glasses, with one lens focused on their customer and one lens on the consumer.

Retailers have been trying to crack the code on e-commerce profitability for the past several years. One tactic that more firms may employ in pursuit of profitability, says Assistant Professor of Marketing and Logistics Annibal Sodero, is partnering with Amazon to serve as product pick-up locations.

Employers are offering major perks to attract seasonal employees, but finding added workers for the holidays could pose a challenge. W.C. Benton Jr., the Edwin D. Dodd Professor of Management, said the current level of competition for holiday workers is unprecedented.

An experience as part of the Freshman Global Lab helped reshape Rachel Boakye’s path at Fisher and opened up career possibilities that continue to impact the fourth-year student’s personal and professional development.

Alumnus Mark Duhon (BSBA ’88) is putting his business degree to work leading a Chicago nonprofit organization that is successfully bridging the economic and educational gap for first-generation college students.

Carmen Lopez-Ramirez shares the inspiring story that ultimately led her to Fisher's Full-Time MBA program and how that is experience is fueling her leadership aspirations.

The Deloitte Foundation, in collaboration with The Ohio State University, has created a need-based scholarship fund to support diverse students pursuing professional services careers at the university’s Max M

A scholarship fund created by alumni affiliated with Deloitte, as well as the Deloitte Foundation is helping to advance diverse undergraduate and graduate accounting students and programming at Fisher.

Meet Ann Watercutter, who was selected to Poets&Quants' 2021 MBA To Watch list.

Meet Kofi Oppong Asumang, who has been selected to Poets&Quants' 2021 MBA To Watch list.

See why Associate Professor of Marketing Terry Esper was one of eight individuals named to DC Velocity's 2021 Rainmakers list, a collection of leaders who are advancing the logistics and supply chain management profession.

A study by Jesse Walker, assistant professor of marketing, examines Americans' beliefs about poverty and economic disadvantage.

Women of the Wayuu culture in La Guajira, Colombia, have an advocate with a head for business, a heart for service and a love of fashion. The benefits sparked by Amber Hammond (BSBA '15) are rippling out within their community.

Cynthia Turner, assistant dean of diversity, equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at Fisher, provides context as to why companies are finding value in making Juneteenth a recognized and celebrated holiday.

Juneteenth has always been a jubilee — a celebration of emancipation, a forgiveness of national sins. Soon, it will be a federal holiday. Chief Diversity Officer Cynthia Turner weighs in on the new holiday and how acceptance of it by businesses might differ from the adoption of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1986.

Meet Management and Human Resources Senior Lecturer Heidi Shull, a faculty advisor to Out in Business, a member of the LGBTQ+ community and a leader with a passion for building inclusion at Fisher.

A federal grant secured by Fisher’s Office of Global Business is part of a foundation for the creation of a new program that will connect underrepresented students with increased access to global learning opportunities.