Research

Imagine if the Colorado River were to dry up for a year. Unless the region had altered its water use, the effect would be would devastating environmentally and economically. A study by the L. William Seidman Research Institute at the W.P. Carey School of Business explores the scenario.

I strongly dislike New Year’s resolutions. A New Year’s resolution is nothing more than a broad goal, and experience and research show that broad goals do not foster success. However, I do love goal-based action plans, and that’s what I recommend you use for 2015.

Thirty-some years ago, unwanted or unsold products often ended their all-too-brief lives by being dumped in landfills. Today they are the basis of what professor of supply chain management Dale Rogers calls a growing slice of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product: secondary markets.

Do you feel as though someone you know needs to be coached? Angelo Kinicki has some words of advice that may make you think twice.

Shareholders, interest groups and governments have called increased diversity on boards of directors, but what actually happens when women and minorities take seats on boards long dominated by white men? A team of researchers from the W. P.

What personality traits make for a better boss, assertiveness or humility? A team of researchers from ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business discovered that humble bosses perform best.

Staying on top of one's game when owning a business can be a challenging task. Sidnee Peck, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship gives a few pointers on how to stay razor sharp.

Sidnee Peck, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, iterates the importance of the relationship between employer and employee.

Sidnee Peck, director for the Center for Entrepreneurship, explains how one's health and work should go hand-in-hand — not against one another.

Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008, corporate officers around the world have been building up their balance sheets with mountains of cash and marketable securities — a lot of it in other countries.