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Research and Business Partnership Centers

Fisher’s Research and Business Partnership Centers create the intellectual innovations that fuel business growth around the world. Many of the nation’s most forward thinking companies turn to Fisher faculty for new ideas and business solutions. Our 10 research centers support teaching, research and development and provide a professional forum for exchange between faculty, students and the corporate community.

Center for Entrepreneurship
Fisher offers one of the most opportunistic entrepreneurship educational and outreach programs in the world integrating state-of-the-art educational programs with economic development strategies to retain the best talent, create quality jobs and sustain economic growth and vitality.

Center for Business Performance Management
As global corporate players demand more of their leaders, this center — the first of its kind of its kind in the United States — helps firms improve their decision making and implementation through optimization of people, process and technology. Strategic worldwide alliances support the center’s mission and stakeholder community.

Center for Real Estate Education and Research
Fisher’s Center for Real Estate Education and Research brings real estate practice and theory to business education, partnering with real estate practitioners, faculty and students to prompt dialogue on real estate issues, establish mentorship opportunities and provide a forum for cutting-edge research for the real estate industry.

Center for Operational Excellence
Fisher’s Center for Operational Excellence brings continuous improvement to the forefront for companies, providing programs focused on excellence in operations strategy and great business performance.

This unique and successful partnership of business leaders and Fisher faculty provides programs focused on innovation, supply chain management, leadership and continuous improvement and is a forum for sharing ideas, processes and experiences.

Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and one of only 31 such centers nationwide, Fisher’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) provides a supportive framework for global teaching, outreach and research initiatives.

CIBER helps companies grow their global network, skills and profit through the TARGET (To Aim and Realize Global Expansion Together) program, hosts an annual international case challenge bringing teams of undergraduate students from around the world to Fisher’s campus each year, and hosts the Distinguished International Speaker Series.

CIBER also manages Fisher’s more than 30 student exchange partnerships with top business schools around the world, supports language learning for students and coordinates the field study components of the Emerging Marketing Field Study and Micro Enterprise courses and the Elective Treks program.

Charles A. Dice Center for Financial Economics
This center promotes high-quality research in financial economics at Ohio State, dedicated to supporting junior and senior faculty.

Global Supply Chain Forum
With the leadership of Fisher researchers and corporate executives, The Global Supply Chain Forum (GSCF) has a global mission to change how executives view supply chain management. The GSCF supply chain management model stresses relationship management and eight cross-functional and cross-firm processes. It is not a business function but rather a new Business Model.

Seminars are designed for executives interested in competing through relationship management and cross-functional integration. Offered through Fisher’s top-ranked Executive Education program, seminars have been offered in North and South America, Australasia, Asia and Europe.

Initiative for Managing Services
The Initiative for Managing Services focuses on co-creating tangible benefits to our members improve their businesses by connecting them in meaningful ways to services research, education, and business application.

The partnerships formed among our members and with the wide range of resources at Ohio State offer fresh insights and innovative ideas to increase the productivity of organizations, create customer loyalty, develop a brand, win new business, and maximize revenue opportunities.

Nationwide Center for Advanced Customer Insights
The Nationwide Center for Advanced Customer Insights (NCACI) is a marketing research center developed as a partnership between Nationwide Insurance Company, The Ohio State University and Fisher College of Business.

The center conducts insurance and financial product marketing research using state-of-the-art predictive modeling, data mining and advanced analytical techniques that improve Nationwide’s understanding of consumer behavior and purchasing patterns.

The center manages both applied business projects involving the application of existing theory, and methodologies and seminal research projects involving the development of new theories to solve specific marketing problems.

Supply Chain Management Research Group
The Supply Chain Management Research Group conducts relevant business research in Supply Chain Management, supporting valuable organizations, students and faculty.

Research focuses on increasing knowledge in the public domain in the form of working papers, presentations and publications. Supporting organizations have access to research findings and viewpoints from working closely with research teams formed around specific topics.