Fisher College of Business

The Fisher Prize

Fisher Prize

You are invited to attend the sixth Fisher Council on Global Trade & Technology and the awarding of the prestigious Fisher Prize.

This year's event commemorates the 100th birthday of the college's namesake, Max M. Fisher, and the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the Fisher College of Business campus at The Ohio State University.

When: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Where: Mershon Auditorium
Time: 4-6pm
Parking: South Campus Gateway Garage

Parking for our guests is available at the South Campus Gateway Garage (123K PDF) located between 9th and 11th Avenues, one block east of High Street. Regular parking rates apply. Complimentary shuttles will be provided to and from the event.


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Thomas Friedman
2008 Fisher Prize Recipient

Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of the international bestseller, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century , which helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way.

Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future.

Thomas Friedman

Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy–which he calls "Geo-Greenism"–is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.

As in The World Is Flat , he explains a new era–the Energy-Climate era–through an illuminating account of recent events. He shows how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the flattening of the world by the Internet (which brought 3 billion new consumers onto the world stage) have combined to bring climate and energy issues to Main Street.

But they have not gone very far down Main Street; the much-touted "green revolution" has hardly begun. With all that in mind, Friedman sets out the clean-technology breakthroughs we, and the world, will need; he shows that the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive; and he explains why America must lead this revolution–with the first Green President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation.

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Fisher Prize History

In 1998, through a generous gift from Leslie and Abigail Wexner in honor of Max M. Fisher’s 90th birthday, the Fisher Council on Global Trade and Technology and the Fisher Prize were established to honor the lifelong achievements of both Mr. Fisher and the award’s recipient.

Previous notable recipients of the Fisher Prize include former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George H. Bush and former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev.

 
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