Listen or read: The state received discouraging words recently about last year's employment numbers and about population growth over the last decade.Retail sales showed a glimmer of hope, however, and unemployment appears to be stabilizing. Economist Dennis Hoffman of the L.

Which prospects are most likely to buy what you're selling? Who are your good credit risks? What will your customers buy next? Chances are, your company uses predictive models to answer these and other questions, or soon will.

Barbara Hoffnagle had not contemplated becoming the first Chief Information Executive (CIE) at Salt River Project (SRP), the country's third-largest public

Avnet, Inc., a Phoenix-based global technology distributor, marks its 50th anniversary as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange today. To celebrate, CEO Roy Vallee will ring the closing bell.

Housing prices in the Phoenix-metro area are likely to continue dropping for the next several months, says Karl Guntermann, professor of finance and real estate who compiles the Arizona State University-Repeat Sales Index (ASU-RSI).

Companies like IBM, PetSmart and Marriott have been proving that enormous success, and enormous profits, can be found in services. Yet services have always been difficult to get your arms around — difficult to understand.

The small increases in Phoenix housing prices that began this spring will likely continue for only a month or two longer, then flatten out for "an extended period," said Karl Guntermann, a professor of real estate who calculates the ASU-Repeat Sales Index (ASU-RSI) at the W. P. Carey Sc

The team from the Department of Information Systems that created decision-support software to help distribute crucial H1N1 vaccine knew that for this project, speed trumped all other protocols.

Although the number of Valley home resales for June has improved over May, there's no doubt the market remains on shaky ground.

Chaos in clinics" was what one TV news broadcast called 2009's shortage of H1N1 vaccine. Once vaccine did start trickling into the supply chain, it was up to county officials to decide which healthcare providers would get the few doses available, and those decisions had to be made on the fly.