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The most enduring companies change the experiences — even the lives — of the people they serve. That is certainly true of the six winners of the 2013 Spirit of Enterprise Awards from the W.P. Carey School of Business.

This fall, the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business enlisted brokers to provide a new window onto the Phoenix real estate market.

Is the economic recovery already over? Are we heading into another recession? Experts posed these questions to the crowd during a panel discussion about real estate finance hosted by the W. P. Carey School of Business and the ASU Real Estate Council.

Management Professor Suzanne Peterson writes a monthly column on management and leadership in The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. An expert on the behaviors that characterize extraordinary leaders, Peterson offers some insights into time management.

Home prices in Phoenix started to rise from the summer doldrums in September and supply is also increasing, according to the latest Greater Phoenix Housing report from the W. P. Carey School’s Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice.

Things get better -- but not dramatically so -- in 2014, says 2013 Lawrence R. Klein Award winner Dean Maki.

The rise in “open innovation” contests has helped companies broaden their research and development while reducing their cost and risk of failure.

With seven new faculty hires this year, the School of Accountancy has bolstered its status as one of the nation's top accounting programs. "We are hiring in a strategically focused way to build on our strengths and to add depth in areas where we see opportunity," said Philip M. J.

Supply in the Phoenix real estate market is not yet back to normal, but it is clearly getting much stronger. Demand, meantime, has cooled as investor interest wanes and ordinary homebuyers hang back.

When a company is struggling financially, its auditors feel their own kind of pain.