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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.

Retail sales were up two tenths of a percent in January driven by spending on cars, clothing and online merchandise. It’s not a spectacular increase, and that’s probably because consumers aren’t sure low gas prices will endure. Economist Dennis Hoffman comments.

Many leaders will tell you a large part of their job is helping employees overcome resistance to change. We often think of leaders as the instigators of change and employees as the obstacles. Yet few leaders realize how they subtly resist and block needed changes.

Michael Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice, relives the housing crash while watching the Oscar-nominated film “The Big Short” with The Arizona Republic’s Catherine Reagor.

Critical thinking is the ability to use intelligence, knowledge and skills to question and carefully explore situations and arrive at thoughtful conclusions based on evidence and reason.

Harvey Kanter is the CEO of Blue Nile, the largest online retailer of certified diamonds and fine jewelry. He addressed the Economic Club of Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2016.

Dennis Hoffman, director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute, shows that increasing the number of college graduates in the workforce will improve the economy, resulting in higher wages for all — including those without a bachelor’s degree — and more revenue in the state treasury.

On September 7, 2001, Jeffrey R. Immelt was named chairman and CEO of General Electric, the industrial giant founded by Thomas Edison 123 years ago. In that half week, Immelt’s world cascaded from an era of “benign growth to one of unprecedented geopolitical and economic risk.”

Building a brand for a services business is more complicated than ever. Customers might perceive one hotel chain or insurance company as pretty much the same as its competitors.

The 2016 College Football Playoff national championship game was played January 11 in Glendale, Ariz. Marketing Professor Michael Mokwa and other marketers and economists have been studying the economic impact of these sports events since the mid-1990s.