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Shell Executive Vice President Curtis Frasier, who is general counsel of Royal Dutch Shell’s Upstream Americas business and head of legal in the U.S.

Call them a special breed: the scholars who work at the intersection of accounting and information systems. They target corporate risk by studying security, IT controls, IT processes, governance and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.

QR codes -- those intricate square graphics -- are showing up on signs, posters, print ads, business cards. They’ve even been painted on sides of buildings. When scanned by your smart phone, QR codes are supposed to take you to something more – more information, music, video.

According to an economic model developed at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona is headed for a pleasant surprise in April. Capital gains taxes, typically paid quarterly with the largest payment in April, are rising, according to economist Dennis Hoffman, director of the L.

Product companies are looking to services as a way of increasing profitability and leveling out the revenue cycle. But marketing Professor Stephen Brown with the W. P. Carey Scho0ol’s Center for Services Leadership, says that companies who attempt the shift must navigate through a continuum.

Chris Cookson, president of Sony Pictures Technologies, has been a participant in and observer of entertainment technology advances over the past 20 years.

Activity in the Phoenix real estate market dropped in October – a dynamic as seasonal as the cooling temperatures, because in most years sales slow as the holidays approach. A decline in foreclosures was responsible for part of the overall slowing, according to the report authored by W. P.

Five years ago, the best-selling book "Competing on Analytics" made a case for the use of data to inform decision making.

High-profile computer security breaches -- involving exposure of sensitive consumer information, uncovering of classified documents or disruption of corporate and government websites and systems – hit the news with alarming frequency.

Strong labor markets in eleven metropolitan areas accounted for one out of every three jobs created in the nation during the past 12 months. U.S.