Research

What makes an individual an effective director of a Fortune 500 company? Is it skills, experience, and connections? Or is it outside allegiances that pull a director one way or another? Are women better at it than men? Do executives from other companies have an edge?

In the last 12 months major changes have emerged in the troubled Phoenix real estate market — changes that have gone largely unrecognized by the shell-shocked public.

Gary Naumann is an entrepreneur and director of the Spirit of Enterprise Center at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On January 2, 2012, the W. P. Carey School of Business lost its benefactor and friend, Wm. Polk Carey. At the January Economic Club of Phoenix luncheon, Dean Robert Mittelstaedt delivered a tribute, speaking about Mr.

Sluggish consumer spending has been a prime job-killer in Arizona during what’s come to be known as the Great Recession, according to economist Dennis Hoffman, director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute.