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Arizona-based LifeLock Inc. provides proactive identity theft protection services for consumers and identity risk and credit worthiness assessment for enterprises. At the Economic Club of Phoenix on Feb.

Optimism prevails in the Phoenix real estate market, according to expert Mike Orr, speaking at the Economic Club of Phoenix. Overall supply, which has been low, is now 77 percent of normal and rising fast, he said. But demand is 99 percent normal, which means prices are rising.

Turnover in key positions is disruptive to the business, costly and consumes time. Sometimes these valued employees want “a piece of the pie,” but some owners are not wiling give up any ownership.

Should CEOs align their leadership style to match the firm’s culture?

W. P. Carey Associate Professor of Finance Matthew Wiswall and Basit Zafar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York conducted a study showing that college students lack accurate information about future earnings — information that lead some students to change their majors.

Arizona has finally recovered the 315,000 jobs lost in the Great Recession, but unfortunately the new jobs do not pay as much as the ones that are gone. The Phoenix Business Journal asked regional economist Lee McPheters why.

For every CIO, Michael Goul has this question: Is your role like the original Star Trek’s Mr. Spock or Scotty? How you answer depends in part on how your company approaches the governance of predictive analytics, data modeling and business intelligence activities.

Professor Bin Gu knew that social media would change business and society 20 years ago – 10 years before most businesses caught on. He began studying the technology and its impacts in 1996 when Amazon decided to allow customers to post product reviews and comments online.

Some leaders appear to get things done effortlessly where others struggle to make progress. Often the secret is the strong relationships the leader has built.

Although women make up half of the nation’s workforce, only 5.1 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have female chief executives. Those rare female CEOs endure much more shareholder activism than their male counterparts, but they can fight the trend with proactive PR.