In industries as diverse as manufacturing and health care, managers are keenly aware of the need to manage their operations through standard routines and IT solutions. However, how these firms use routines and technologies is important, according to a new study published by researchers from The Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business and the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business.

Roy Lewicki, professor emeritus of management and human resources at Fisher College of Business, started focusing on apologies in the wake of JetBlue's detailed explanation of a major equipment shutdown in New York, Tiger Woods's mea culpa for extramarital affairs, and British Petroleum's attempt to atone after the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Fisher's Deborah Mitchell shares insights into branding considerations companies face when they take political stances.

Every quarter, the National Center for the Middle Market surveys 1,000 executives. One thing we ask is whether their company’s overall performance has improved, deteriorated or stayed the same in the past year.

An outsized commitment to investing in innovation is a major distinguishing characteristic of “growth champions” of the mid-market—those 10 percent of companies identified by the National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM) as the biggest gainers over time.

Unlike private foundations, which generally must distribute at least 5 percent of their investments each year to operating charities, there is no grant-making requirement for donor-advised funds. Critics call them rest stops for charity dollars. Brian Mittendorf, an accounting professor at Ohio State University, said it’s “crazy” that large sponsors of donor-advised funds “are not subject to the same disclosure requirements that private foundations are.”

In a recent paper, economists Söhnke Bartram, Gregory Brown and Fisher's René M. Stulz show that the increasing domination of public markets by large old companies — the superstars that economists are warning about — is responsible for the increasing correlations between stocks.

A group called the Risk Institute at Ohio State University is looking at what can be done to change habits and behaviors about cellphones and driving.

Decades’ worth of studies have shown that similarity attracts—a phenomenon known as homophily. Our research focuses on a specific aspect of this: That being one’s true self, disclosing elements of one’s personal life, and forming social connections are easier within one’s own group than they are across a demographic boundary such as racial background.

No one likes an egomaniac, but sometimes a little arrogance may be just what the C-suite needs. “To team members who expect leaders ... to take charge and give orders, humble leaders may be met with doubt,” says Fisher's Jasmine Hu.

The belief in the health power of expensive foods — or that healthy foods need to cost more — is misguided, according to Rebecca Reczek, a food psychologist and marketing researcher at Ohio State University.

Highlighting the exciting work that is being conducted around principled leadership at Fisher, the college recently met with alumni and friends in Naples, Florida, as part of its annual Winter College event.

There has been recent debate within manufacturing operations about whether firms should keep their enterprise resource planning (ERP) IT systems or ditch them in favor of stand-alone enterprise applications (SEAs) in order to minimize operational glitches. 

“The stock market is what economists call a leading indicator of the business cycle, the real economy, while the labor market is a lagging indicator,” said Fisher's Lu Zhang, who has studied correlations between stock prices and the labor market.

Drawing on research from his recently published book, Fisher’s Oded Shenkar shared his insights to a university-wide audience as part of The Ohio State University Institute for Chinese Studies’ “Re-Imagining China’s Past and Present” lecture series.

After a year of doubt, sacrifice and reinvention, does CrossChx's Sean Lane finally have his billion-dollar idea in Columbus, an area that Fisher's Bill Diffenderffer says "is not the city that it was when I first got here 12 years ago."

According to Ohio State researchers Itzhak (Zahi) Ben-David and Dr. Theordore P. Beauchaine, and a colleague at the University of Florida, adults with ADHD may struggle financially.

Few individuals can say that they are an integral part of selecting a winner for what is largely considered the “Nobel Prize for Economics.” But, a lifetime of financial research and study has uniquely positioned Fisher’s Ingrid Werner for that opportunity.

Itzhak Ben-David, a finance professor at Fisher, presented a paper that showed that when a company joins a major index both its ETF ownership and volatility goes up, and when it leaves its ETF ownership and volatility goes down. “No one doubts this [the ETF] is a great innovation, but at the same time it could have some unintended consequences,” Prof Ben-David said at the conference.

Life is good for middle market companies. That would be the short story from the recent National Center for the Middle Market survey. 

If given the choice to learn about where everyday goods come from, most people opt for ignorance. And if they are made aware of unethical practices, odds are they forget the uncomfortable truth by their next checkout, according to new research by Fisher's Rebecca Reczek.

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.