Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, weighs in on a nonprofit's tax filings and the questions they raise about the organization's dealings with drugmakers.

The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis may be internal. Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, has analyzed 11 years’ worth of the organization’s public financial statements, starting in 2007. In seven of those years, he found “the N.R.A. owed more money to others than it had at its discretion to spend.” A financial audit from 2017 revealed that it had nearly reached the limit of a $25 million.

Andres Duany, the keynote speaker at the City of the Future conference hosted by The Ohio State University’s Center for Real Estate, said he was “stunned” to see so much development in Columbus since his last visit a decade ago. A pioneer of New Urbanist-style growth praised Columbus' development while knocking "NIMBYS" who resist change.

Terry Esper, associate professor of logistics at Fisher, says Columbus becomes even more attractive for companies that use a ship-to-consumer rather than a ship-to-store model: “The location is central to where people live, not just where they shop.”

Hilliard city leaders found  many people still don’t know how to use roundabouts. The leaders referenced research by the Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, which showed that when used properly roundabouts can save lives.

Freezing the flow of goods between the U.S. and Mexico would have a significant impact on Ohio because of the interconnectedness of global supply chains, according to Tom Goldsby, the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation Professor in Business at Fisher. 

In coordination with Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the Risk Institute announced several projects and research to help predict and curb the deadly behaviors, including a coordinated nationwide effort comprised of dozens of companies, government entities, and researchers seeking to combine the latest research with industry expertise.

Fisher's Tanya Menon shares insights into how companies can structure their workplaces and their hiring practices to close the gap in the number of women hired for leadership roles.

MBA students who start their studies this fall at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business will benefit from a newly redesigned curriculum that is more personalized, integrated and experiential than ever before. 

Alexandria Graham, is “a sushi enthusiast, Ohio State Buckeye fanatic, secret computer nerd and ambitious perfectionist.” The MIS student is also a member of Poets&Quants for Undergrads' Best & Brightest Class of 2019.

Max Wasserman is a "proud Marine Corps veteran trying to become this generation’s Warren Buffett.” The finance student is also a member of Poets&Quants for Undergrads' Best & Brightest Class of 2019.

A Poets&Quants analysis of job placement rates at the top 50 U.S. business schools shows that the top five schools for placement rate 90 days after graduation are Washington Foster (99.1 percent), Fisher College of Business is second at 97.4 percent, and Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business (97.2 percent), USC’s Marshall School of Business (95.8 pecent), and the University of Florida’s Hough Graduate School of Business (95.7 percent) round out the top five.

Research by Grant Donnelly, assistant professor of marketing, suggests that simply telling colleagues "I don't have time" for their requests can make them feel less valued and less likely to trust you.

Dennis Hirsch, a fellow at The Risk Institute, a professor of law and head of Ohio State's Program on Data and Governance, shared insights about the challenges posed by this new data economy.

A boss who “demands” excellence is no more likely to produce it than the boss who requests or nurtures it, and likely less so, the research suggests. Demanding excellence often is just a handy excuse, said Bennett Tepper, the Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professorship at Fisher and a leading researcher of the effects of abusive leadership.

The Ohio Development Services Agency is funding interns through its Export Internship Program aimed specifically at helping companies learn how to navigate the international business world. The program has been an experiment with three business schools – Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, Youngstown State University’s Williamson College of Business Administration and Cleveland State University’s Monte Ahuja College of Business.

Recent analysis by Rene Stulz, the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at Fisher, and Tulane's Robert Prilmeier suggests that the shift away from public equity markets is also occurring in debt markets — and that many of the same forces causing a decline in the number of publicly traded firms are also causing companies to shift away from issuing public bonds and instead to seek out private loans from banks.

After some famous — and infamous — Super Bowl ads, central Ohio companies are sitting out this year's broadcast. “To really make it pay off these days, you have to invest in in-store displays, social media, have a really coordinated investment of time and people,” said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of marketing at Fisher. “A lot of firms say they can use the money, time and staff in a better way.”

Making cannabis industry employment more diverse requires grappling with decades of inequitable enforcement of a product that's still federally illegal, according to a panel of business and legal leaders hosted by the Ohio State law school's Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and Fisher's Center for Innovation Strategies. 

If we’re to be labeled terrible drivers, at least we’re also doing our part to help change that. Right here in Columbus, the Risk Institute at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business has been leading a nationwide initiative to find the best ways to predict and curb distracted-driving behaviors. 

Before Christmas, the IRS issued guidance for what tax-exempt organizations will need to compute a potential tax on their parking lots. “There has been some relief in the form of IRS guidance that softens the blow but the rule has not been fully repealed,” said Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting.

Research by Roy Lewicki, the Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professor Emeritus at Fisher, found that there are six components to an apology and the more of them you include when you say you’re sorry, the more effective your apology will be.

High Bank Distillery has an offer as big as a billboard for Columbus Blue Jackets star Artemi Panarin: free vodka for life if he extends his contract with the team. The entire billboard idea is “brilliant,” said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of marketing at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.

As business responds to the #MeToo movement, are “love contracts” a good way to address workplace romances? Lecturer Rebecca Jacobs, who teaches Contemporary Employment Practices and the Law at Fisher, provides some insight.

Documents showed the NRA was $31.8 million in the red at the end of last year, thanks in large part to slower cash flow. The negative balance was a 10-year low, according to Brian Mittendorf, the Fisher Designated Professorship in Accounting, who recently published an analysis on the group’s finances.