Like most entrepreneurs, Laura McLaughlin identified a problem and wanted to solve it. Equipped with a solid academic foundation, she enlisted the help of The Ohio State Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) to turn her idea — a mobile app to help combat infant mortality — into a reality.

The Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship (APTE) Summit has connected students at Fisher and Ohio State with change leaders from around the world to explore ways to put business education to work in making positive impacts in communities near and far.

Recognizing the outstanding achievement, leadership and service from its undergraduate students, faculty, staff and alumni, Fisher College of Business recently honored the recipients of the 2018 Pace Setters Awards.

Opportunities to experience business on a global scale remains a critical part of the student experience for undergraduate and graduate students at Fisher. Madeline Furash, a fourth-year student and member of Fisher’s Honors Cohort program, shared a recap of the program’s recent International Expedition to Brazil.

Recently, NiSource teamed up with business data analytics students at The Ohio State University to find ways to further extract trends from data. Overseen by a former IBM executive, two groups of juniors and seniors were tasked with finding factors around why and when work injuries occur.

Fisher College of Business has honored Andrea Evans and Katie Reynolds with Coykendale Awards, which are presented each year as part of the college’s ongoing commitment to recognize and reward dedicated staff members.

Fisher students and representatives from national and local nonprofits recently congregated to gain insights on how to effectively wield marketing skills for a positive impact on important social causes as part of the “Marketing for a Better World” event, hosted by the Fisher Association of Marketing Professionals (AMP) with the support of Fisher Board Fellows.

Fisher is burgeoning with emerging leaders, many of whom recently worked to make the college’s day of service into something truly exceptional. C.J. Stover and Brady Ellis were among those students who helped shape Fisher Impact Day, an event in which more than 880 members of the Fisher community dispersed across campus and throughout central Ohio to serve various organizations.

Whether creating care packages for servicemembers overseas, making no-sew blankets for sick and disadvantaged children or beautifying parts of Columbus, hundreds of Fisher students, faculty and staff spent the Veterans Day holiday serving the community as part of Fisher Impact Day.

Hosted by The Ohio State University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the 2017 Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein Entrepreneurial Leadership Summit explored pathways to entrepreneurship in Ohio and brought together leaders and bright minds to discuss ways the state can foster new ideas, technologies and solutions.

Students, faculty and researchers at Fisher College of Business are benefiting from unique opportunities to engage with a leader in the automotive industry, as the college and Honda of America have teamed up in a number of ways.

With data and analytics representing an exciting frontier and untold potential for business, Fisher has launched a Specialized Master of Business degree program in Business Analytics (SMB-A) designed to prepare individuals with analytics skills, techniques and tools to transform data into insights to make better business decisions.

Recognizing the impact that faculty thought leaders at Fisher can have on future business leaders, Ric Dillon (BSBA ’77, MA ’86) and Steven Trulaske (MA ’80, MBA ’82) have generously created two endowed professorships at the college.

Four talented undergraduate students share their reflections on how honors organizations and learning labs at Fisher are making national and international trips key parts of their own student experiences:

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Middle market companies in the supply chain are team players, working closely with customers and their own suppliers, especially at the larger end of the spectrum. That's one of the findings in a report from the National Center for the Middle Market that looked at how these companies operate within the larger "ecosystem" of the supply chain, said Thomas Goldsby, chair of the department of marketing and logistics at Fisher.