Finding the optimal number of suppliers to form your supply base is not easy — nor is it the only factor buying companies must juggle in order to manage their suppliers effectively.

For the past 10 years, the electric utility industry has focused on competition and restructuring.

Sixteen years after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) passed, workers with mental illness still face a disheartening choice: keep their health problems a secret at work, or risk being shunned, passed over, paid up to one-third less, or even fired, according to a new study conducted by the

In early 2005, Hewlett-Packard's board of directors was embroiled in controversy. Board discord anonymously spilled into the media, and an effort commenced to find and plug the leaks of board deliberations. The probe has erupted into scandal, indictments and congressional hearings.

The ability to persuade others is critical to success, whether you are selling cars or a new corporate strategy. Psychology and marketing Professor Robert Cialdini has examined the component parts of influence, in the lab and on the street.

Corporate America shouldn't fear the Democratic takeover of Congress, despite the party's anti-business reputation.

The sports industry operates by its own set of rules when it comes to achieving and measuring success. In Part Two of our discussion, Knowledge@W. P. Carey looks at the economic impact teams have on local economies.

Professional sports are a multimillion dollar industry — an industry that is increasingly playing by rules that don't apply to other businesses.

The area north and south of the U.S.-Mexico border is a unique region that is economically distinct from the rest of the United States and Mexico.

Persons with disabilities earn less and are less likely to be employed, a phenomenon often explained away as the result of lower productivity due to the impact of functional limitations. In an important new book, economists Marjorie L. Baldwin and William G.