Fisher College of Business Overview

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Fisher College of Business Overview

• Stephen L. Mangum, Interim Dean
• Council of Deans, June 24, 2008

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Outline

• What are we about?
• Who are we?
• Our Matrix Structure
• Seven Sample Characteristics of Note
• Fisher College Vision
• Selected Challenges and priority activities

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What are we about?

• Developing leaders who create positive change in
  business and society.
• Individualized attention, customized programming,
  enabling success.
• Highly ranked, high impact programs set in the
  context of a world class mega university
• Extraordinary outside the classroom educational
  experiences
• Settings in which individuals make a difference
  and experience a difference.

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Who are we?

• 104 faculty (85 tenure track)
• 140 staff
• 4,747 undergraduate students
• 595 MBA students
• 186 specialized masters students
• 60 Ph.D. students

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Our Structure (selected attributes)

• Matrix Organization (academic departments and
  product lines)
• Reward power to both department and academic
  program chairs
• Differentiated teaching loads based on research
  productivity
• Effort to accurately assess market equity via
  criticality and vulnerability assessment
• Full costing model
• Differential tuition graduate programs (and UG
  program fee) as lifeblood

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Numerous product lines

• - Bachelor in Business Administration (14
  separate majors)
• - MBA (Full-time, working professional,
  executive)
• - MBLE Master of Business Logistic Engineering
• - MLHR Master of Labor and Human Resources
• - MAcc. Master of Accounting
• - MBOE Master of Business Operational Excellence
  (launching December 2008)
• - Ph.D.
• in Accounting and MIS
• in Business Administration
• in Labor and Human Resources

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Undergraduate Enrollment by Major
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Undergraduate Degrees Awarded
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Some Characteristics of Note

• Strong Research Presence
• High Quality Academic Programs
• Accomplished Centers
• Highly Acclaimed Career Services
• Well Regarded Customized Executive Education
• Growing Record of Cross Campus Collaboration
• A Tradition of Giving Back

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1) A Strong Research Presence

• Academy of Management Journal, 2000
• 18th overall
• 6th for Finance
• 21st for Insurance Real Estate
• 14th for Management Science
• 30th for Marketing
• 6th for Production/Operations Management
• UT-Dallas Research Ranking 2004-2006
• 19th for Accounting
• 17th for Management, I.B. and Strategy

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2) High Quality Academic Program Rankings

• 2nd worldwide in customized Executive Education
  Programs
• 12th for undergraduate education (7th among
  public universities)
• 14th worldwide for Executive MBA
• 22nd for full-time MBA (7th among public
  universities)
• 3rd nationally among schools with strong regional
  recruiting bases
• 10th for Master of Accounting

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3) Accomplished Centers with research and
outreach missions

• Center for Entrepreneurship
• Center for Operations Excellence
• Center for Business Performance Management
• Center for International Business Education and
  Research
• Center for Real Estate Education and Research
• Charles A. Dice Center for Financial Economics
• Initiative for Managing Services
• Global Supply Chain Forum
• Nationwide Center for Advanced Customer Insights
  (coming on line soon)

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4) Highly Acclaimed Career Services

• 12 Staff (FTE) and 10 GAs
• Provide on-campus relationship management
  services to approximately 400 companies and
  virtual recruiting services to approximately
  1,000 companies annually. Corporate Sponsorship
  Program provides preferred access to key
  recruiting events.
• Provide individual counseling and extensive
  web-based resources to students on job search
  strategies.
• Coordinate job fairs, internships and
  post-graduate employment.
• Collaborate with faculty in coordinating numerous
  off-campus recruiting opportunities Chicago, New
  York City, London, etc.

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Strong employment results

• Average starting salary 44,324 B.S.B.A.
  88,000 FT MBA
• 98 of 2007 MBA graduates and 81 of B.S.B.A.
  graduates employed within 90 days of graduation
• Main employment fields Consulting, Corporate
  Finance, Marketing, Operations Management
• B.S.B.A 43 found jobs in Columbus area, 58 in
  Ohio MBA 13 international job acceptances

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5) Well Regarded Customized Executive Education
Programs

• In 2007, 84 programs for over 3500 managers
• customized education and training programs at
  multiple levels of the organization (senior
  executives to line managers)
• unique relationships with faculty experts
  possessing in-depth knowledge about specific
  industries
• increasing the quality of internal talent
  pipelines

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Representative Companies Served in Customized
Programs

• Alliance Data
• American Electric Power
• The Andersons
• Chase Manhattan
• Chemical Abstracts
• Children's Hospital
• Coca Cola
• FBI

• Huntington
• Lifestyle Communities
• Limited Logistics
• Maersk Logistics
• Nationwide
• OCLC
• Ross Heart Hospital
• Textron
• TODCO

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6) Growing record of Cross Campus Collaborations

• Masters in Business Logistics Engineering
• Entrepreneurship Minor
• Regional Campus General Business Major (BSBA)
• Joint Programming MBA/JD, MBA/MD, MBA/MHA,
  MBA/PharmD, MLHR/M.A.Higher Ed.
• Master of Engineering (in process)

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7) A Living Tradition of Giving Back (examples)

• Fisher Board Fellows and Social Enterprise
  initiative
• Fisher/OSU VITA Low Income Tax Clinic free tax
  preparation services targeted at low income, EITC
  eligible populations.
• Fisher Serves 150 students invested 1,000 hours
  in community service projects
• Fisher Professional Services Graduate student
  consulting operation serving businesses,
  university entities, non-profits.

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Fisher College Vision

• The Fisher College of Business is an
  international leader in management education
  through cutting edge knowledge creation and the
  delivery of creative programs producing highly
  valued professionals for the worldwide business
  community.
• The programs of the college will be consistently
  evaluated among the top five of those located at
  major public research universities and among the
  top 15 of those found at all universities, while
  measures of research reputation in key
  disciplines will also consistently achieve top 15
  rankings.

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Selected Current Challenges and Priority
Activities

• Rightsizing faculty count relative to product
  lines and student enrollment relative to
  benchmark and aspirant schools.
• Enlarging the geographical and financial
  footprint of Fisher Executive Education.
• Further internationalizing Fisher
• Expanding cross campus collaborations
• Moving from success to significance

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Questions?