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With chief executive pay skyrocketing, companies are tying those giant paychecks to performance measures and stock options — incentives intended to get CEOs to hit their marks. Such incentives become valuable only if certain benchmarks, such as increased share prices, are hit.

Recent high-profile cases where implantable cardioverter-defibrillator leads and metal-on-metal hip implants failed have drawn attention to the need for use of unique device identification or UDI.

Development is re-awakening in Phoenix following a pause in activity that was enforced by the recession.

Some real estate commentators are making ominous predictions that the market is once again inflating like a bubble. But Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business, says there is no evidence in the data to support their assertions.

With the healthcare sector moving toward greater price transparency, soon people will be aware of the cost of the medical goods and services they consume — often for the first time.

With more than 4,000 hotels worldwide, chances are good that you'll sleep at a Best Western sometime this year. When you book your room, however, you'll have more information about your lodging than you did in the past.

The annual research dissemination conference of the W. P. Carey School’s Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium is designed to bring practitioners and researchers together to talk about new knowledge and practical issue. The journals edited at the W. P.

Even as the U.S. begins implementation of one of the most comprehensive healthcare policies ever passed, Regina Herzlinger, a leading researcher and long-time advocate of consumer-driven healthcare, argues that policy cannot fix the broken healthcare system.

Each year Urban Land Institute Arizona presents “Trends Day” -- a major event designed for professionals in the real estate and development industries -- to inform and to spark discussion about current conditions and the latest thinking in planning, design and development.

In a market with chronic supply shortages, normal demand can drive prices up. That continues to be the case in the Phoenix market, according to Mike Orr, director of the W. P. Carey School’s Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice and author of the monthly Phoenix housing report.