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

What is small business? According to the Small Business Administration's size standards, an enterprise may still be considered "small" if it employs as many as 1,500 people with revenues up to $32.5 million.

Entrepreneur magazine recently ranked Arizona as the top hot spot for entrepreneurs. However, it is replicative, not innovative, entrepreneurs who are flourishing in Arizona.

Employee turnover is an expensive process. Human resources experts estimate the cost of turnover to range between 93 percent and 200 percent of an exiting worker's annual salary, depending on the employee's skill level.

A classic is defined as something that has lasting significance or worth. Knowledge@W. P. Carey offers a selection of books that have passed the test for a group of W. P. Carey School of Business faculty.

What does it take to get a new venture up and running? Conventional wisdom suggests that the entrepreneurs should hit the pavement in high gear and then keep up the pace. Research shows, however, that speed alone is not a guarantee for success.

Annual performance reviews can set stomachs to churning throughout the office, and with good reason. Tensions can run high if employees are put on the defensive by a supervisor who hasn't learned to conduct an evaluation effectively and with finesse.

As globalization moves into ever more culturally diverse locations, the question of business and culture – "the Lexus and the olive tree" in the lexicon of Thomas Friedman's bestseller of the same name — becomes increasingly germane.

The structure of the modern workplace has made it such that friendships are being formed between employees and managers. For one thing, people are spending more time at the office than ever before, so it's natural that their social circles are being filled out with other people in the workplace.

Are America's top CEOs living in a world apart from the rest of us? The average compensation package for a CEO of an S&P 500 company last year was $11.7 million — about 185 times greater than the average salary of a rank-and-file employee.