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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.

Several long-term trends will determine America’s economic future, according to John Lonski, managing director and chief financial markets economist of Moody’s Analytics. Careful monitoring and interpretation of those trends for the period of 2010-2013 earned him the 2014 Lawrence R.

Assistant Professor Mahyar Eftekhar wants to bring top minds in humanitarian logistics together to study life-and-death situations.

A logo is a graphic representation of a brand. Logo designs are intended to evoke a brand’s promise: the benefits and experiences consumers expect from the service or product. Since Phoenix logo is a mythical bird rising from the ashes, what does the logo of Phoenix say about who we are?