Fisher College of Business
Overview
Stephen L. Mangum, Interim Dean
Council of Deans, June 24, 2008
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What are we about?
Who are we?
Our Matrix Structure
Seven Sample Characteristics of Note
Fisher College Vision
Selected Challenges and priority activities
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.
Who are we?
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104 faculty (85 tenure track)
140 staff
4,747 undergraduate students
595 MBA students
186 specialized master’s students
60 Ph.D. students
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”
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
Undergraduate Enrollment by Major
3500
3000
Econom ics in business
Real estate
Logistics m anagem ent
2500
Inform ation system s
Operations m anagem ent
2000
Marketing
Hum an resources
1500
International business
Risk & insurance
1000
Finance
500
Accounting
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Some Characteristics of Note…
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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
1) A Strong Research Presence…
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Academy of Management Journal, 2000
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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
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
3) Accomplished Centers with
research and outreach missions…
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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)
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.
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
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
Representative Companies Served
in Customized Programs…
• Alliance Data
• American Electric
Power
• The Andersons
• Chase Manhattan
• Chemical Abstracts
• Children's Hospital
• Coca Cola
• FBI
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Huntington
Lifestyle Communities
Limited Logistics
Maersk Logistics
Nationwide
OCLC
Ross Heart Hospital
Textron
TODCO
6) Growing record of Cross
Campus Collaborations…
• Master’s 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)
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.
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.
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”
Questions?