Professors Dale S. Rogers and Bertan Bakkaloglu were named ON Semiconductor Professors of Business and Engineering, confirming their roles as leaders in their respective fields.

Much of the increase in the price of healthcare in the United States can be traced back to technology advances that improve patient outcomes, but are expensive to develop and implement.

The healthcare system in the United States has been slowly collapsing over the past 30 years, according to Bradford Kirkman-Liff, professor of health policy and biotechnology at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Foreclosure rates have increased dramatically in the last year. Yet bankruptcy filings are much lower than they were before the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) went into effect.

Michael Vick's apparent involvement in the brutal "sport" of dog fighting is the latest incident to focus attention on celebrity endorsements.

The soaring cost of prescription drugs is a major concern in the United States, but drugs in one important category — biopharmaceuticals, or drugs produced through biotechnology — actually do not cost more in the United States. Michael F.

Companies typically try to acquire the kind of customers that are immediately profitable, or show the most potential for long term value.

As the stock market continues to shake following the crash of the subprime market, all eyes are on the Federal Reserve. Now more than ever it's important to understand how the Fed works. For example, what is the federal funds rate and how does it differ from the discount rate?

IRS officials estimate some $290 billion dollars that should have come into federal coffers in 2001 never made it into Uncle Sam's pockets. But, take heart. The IRS has a seven-component strategy for bringing in the bucks.

The meltdown of the subprime mortgage industry, often associated with the lower end of the U.S. housing market, continues to spread upward, bringing uncertainty into the jumbo mortgage loan market (loans above $417,000).