A groundbreaking study has finally put a dollar figure on a previously unanswered question: how much do physicians' practices, due to government regulation, pay to ensure their poorest patients get the right prescription drugs?

Most assessments of employability focus on traditional models that consider skills, work experience, education and personality traits. But today more than ever, organizations need employees who can adapt and are comfortable doing so.

At kickoff time on February 3, Phoenix will be the focus of attention for some 90 million sports fans worldwide. The 75,000 lucky ticket holders and the thousands more who visit with them will give the metropolitan area an economic shot in the arm.

In Arizona alone, non-citizen immigrant workers contribute $29 billion to the economy. That's 8 percent of the state's output, created by about 280,000 workers. State and local tax revenues resulting from their economic activity totaled $1.5 billion. What if that labor supply became unavailable?

For many business people, politics is unfamiliar territory, where missteps bring unforeseen and often unfortunate consequences.

Services now account for a staggering 80 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product and labor force, but many still view the world through manufacturing lenses, according to W. P. Carey experts Mary Jo Bitner and Stephen Brown.

In the old economy, manufacturing led the way and regions competed largely by offering a low-cost environment in which businesses could operate.

Next year will be marked by uncertainty, and that bodes ill for the Arizona economy. Lee McPheters, professor of economics and director of the JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center at the W. P. Carey School of Business, and Elliott D. Pollack, President of Elliott D.

You don't have to be a power broker juggling corporate mergers to need negotiation skills. Just about everybody must negotiate with a superior at some point, about a raise or an assignment, or even a new idea for a project.

Companies that attempt strategic change without considering organizational culture risk failure, according to management Professor Angelo Kinicki of the W. P. Carey School of Business. When culture is not aligned with strategy, he explains, culture wins every time.