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May 23, 2018
The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University
Why an upcoming appointment makes us less productive
In a series of studies, both in the lab and real life, researchers including Fisher's Selin Malkoc found that free time seems shorter to people when it comes before a task or appointment on their calendar.
May 21, 2018
CMSWire
CMSWire
How AI is helping improve employee experiences
Artificial intelligence has the opportunity to diversify boards and remove the bias of executives choosing who they know. The Risk Institute at the Ohio State University has done extensive research on using machine learning to hire and select board directors.
May 20, 2018
The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times
U.S. is putting new tariffs on hold while negotiating with China, Mnuchin says
"For now, expect the Chinese to go back to buying lots of U.S. soybeans and Boeing aircraft, a big-ticket item that can move the needle," said Oded Shenkar, a China expert and business professor. "But what else can the Chinese buy from the U.S.?"
May 15, 2018
Inc.
Inc.
Humility is a good quality for leaders, right? Not so fast
"Oftentimes we forget that leadership is about relationships," says Jasmine Hu, an associate professor of management at Fisher. "It is not just what team leaders want to provide to their members. It is also what team members want or expect from their leaders."

May 10, 2018
Max M. Fisher College of Business
Max M. Fisher College of Business
Innovation Summit tackles building an entrepreneurial culture
Attendees at The Ohio State University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Innovation Summit 2018 received a series of first-hand insights into how companies have successfully built entrepreneurial cultures.
May 9, 2018
strategy+business
strategy+business
The risks and costs of cyber-attacks
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.

May 7, 2018
Max M. Fisher College of Business
Max M. Fisher College of Business
Fisher creates leadership consortium to link theory with practice
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).
May 3, 2018
Barron's
Barron's
Small businesses most confident in years; larger ones have even more swagger
Tom Stewart, executive director of NCMM, observed a similar pattern among the subgroups in his report: larger companies were more confident.
April 29, 2018
BizEd
BizEd
Forgetting inconvenient facts
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.
April 27, 2018
NPR - TED Radio Hour
NPR - TED Radio Hour
What can we gain by expanding our social circles?
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.
April 26, 2018
Forbes
Forbes
Three strategies to help your midsize company 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.
April 23, 2018
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Insurers don't seem to care if you text and drive
“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.”
April 18, 2018
Columbus Business First
Columbus Business First
University of Louisville President Neeli Bendapudi on what she learned in Columbus
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.
April 18, 2018
Forbes
Forbes
The uncertain future of the tagline
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."
April 17, 2018
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
The top TED talks of 2018 so far — and what you can learn from them
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.
April 13, 2018
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
How a data breach affects the bottom line
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.

April 9, 2018
WalletHub
WalletHub
Exploring credit card rates
Fisher's Selin Malkoc spoke with WalletHub about credit cards and what influences their rates.
April 9, 2018
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Could machine learning help companies select better board directors?
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.
April 5, 2018
WOSU
WOSU
China retaliates against american soybeans, and Ohio feels the pain
“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.”
April 4, 2018
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Research: When being a humble leader backfires
Research by Fisher's Jasmine Hu and Kaifeng Jiang examines whether humble leaders make more effective leaders and whether their teams have better outcomes.
April 3, 2018
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The right way to complain when a business does you wrong
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.”
March 30, 2018
Newsweek
Newsweek
How big Is the NRA? Gun group's membership might not be as powerful as it says
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.
March 30, 2018
MarketWatch
MarketWatch
NRA donors respond to imminent threat, but long-term finances are shaky
“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.

March 27, 2018
The Peggy Smedley Show
The Peggy Smedley Show
The behavior behind distracted driving
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.

March 26, 2018
Max M. Fisher College of Business
Max M. Fisher College of Business
Fisher Leadership Initiative launches Lead Read Today
The Fisher Leadership Initiative (FLI) has launched Lead Read Today, a new platform dedicated to advancing the study and practice of principled leadership.