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When a company hires a new CEO externally or even from another industry, hopes for significant changes follow. Whether those changes are positive depend on the new executive's experience with board diversity, as two ASU researchers found.

After decades of debate, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance Geoffrey Smith says he and a colleague have discredited the "Weekend Effect."

The state is caught in the middle as the President attempts to limit foreign trade while it tries to boost cross-border business.

A new study by the L. William Seidman Research Institute predicts Arizona's health care sector will experience its first decline in decades if Congress eliminates Affordable Care Act funding.

As Phoenix continues to sprawl toward Tucson, urban planners are working to prevent the entire 100-mile corridor between Arizona’s largest metro areas from becoming nothing but concrete and asphalt.

MLK was many things: minister, activist, civil rights leader, speaker extraordinaire, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. But few would see him as a great model for business leaders.

If you buy products that benefit society, it’s a good thing, right? Yes, and no. That is, people don’t necessarily see it that way.

Attention customer service: Quality care post-sale is crucial if you want our business in the future.

There have been reports about retailers destroying returned, unworn merchandise. Others send it to third-party liquidators or donate or recycle it. More and more, returned products are sold at online auctions.