Research

Chairman John Fowler reviews some of the highlights of the department of supply chain management in his welcome message for the first 2012 issue of KnowSCM.

IT professionals bring specialized knowledge to companies, but it's a mistake if they think of themselves as separate from the business, warns Avnet senior vice president and chief information officer Steve Phillips.

Project management uses a series of processes to execute projects efficiently and effectively. Its benefits have recently become widely understood and its use has spread to all industries, with construction and IT being two of the primary drivers.

Individual investors sometimes make decisions that are “irrational”—   mistakes they know they shouldn’t be making. So what causes investors to make these mistakes? What causes some investors to be less prone to biased investment decision making and others to be more susceptible to it?

At the Economic Club of Phoenix Luncheon on March 13, 2012, the audience heard about the state of the airline industry as the economy slowly recovers. Listen to the keynote presentation.

Research indicates that psychological characteristics such as optimism, resilience and hopefulness can impact performance among top management teams.

A sharp surge in inventories helped U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grow by 3.0 percent in the final quarter of 2011, according to the latest figures from the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Business schools are in the midst of rankings season and magazines like U.S. News & World Report have announced their most recent verdicts. At the W. P.

A fresh easel pad waited at each of four round tables when members of the Executive Advisory Board (EAB) broke into groups to discuss what students learn in the department’s Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) program.

Senior Joshua McCoy can remember getting his first computer when he was seven or eight years old. Just logging on and browsing websites for cartoons fascinated him. Now, McCoy is graduating from the W. P. Carey School of Business with an undergraduate degree in Computer Information Systems.