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I have had all manner of tenants in the past, good and bad. With experience, I have developed a successful application process that helps me to find the best possible tenants. After the successful first phone call, now it is time to schedule the showing.

Some entrepreneurs dream about starting an enterprise their whole lives long, while others chase new inspiration. Yet regardless of their path, the vision for the entrepreneurs behind Kitchell, Ersland Touch Landscape, IO, I-ology and Melrose Pharmacy, was to touch the lives of people.

Companies that make regular ongoing campaign contributions to lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee end up paying lower tax rates over time, according to a new study by Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business.

Last year’s botched roll out of the federal government’s Affordable Care Act website focused a spotlight on the public sector CIO. Those who believe government should be run like a business might conclude that a “rock star” CIO from the private sector would have done it better.

In the subdued Phoenix real estate market, demand continued weaker than normal, supply was tight and sales transaction volume well below normal. In contrast, the rental market is busy with construction projects in the works to increase supply.

Arizona has been a champion of job creation in the past, but right now the state is doing just OK, says Economist Dennis Hoffman, director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Economics Professor Daniel Silverman and four co-authors used “naturally-occurring data” — data gathered about behavior as it happens rather than from a survey or an experiment — to explore a mysterious discrepancy between economic theory and reality.

Finance Professor Laura Lindsey and her co-authors say that they are the first — to the best of their knowledge — to formalize an empirical model for testing economic theories concerning the formation of ties between firms.

The cloud is changing the way businesses operate, spend their money and make decisions, leading many managers to reconsider their current and future operations. Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and others are competing to control the cloud service sector.

A year ago the recovering Phoenix real estate market suddenly shifted to weak, and the market has remained down ever since. We asked Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P.