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When accounting problems at American International Group surfaced last winter, it looked like a small matter next to the corporation–busting scandals of the Enron era.

"Cross-functional teams" comprise employees and managers from separate divisions or organizational units within a company. Generally, these teams handle non-routine tasks or projects, addressing critical strategic issues such as change management or growth initiatives.

While integrating different software applications is always a challenge, it is easier when the different components come from the same vendor and are designed to fit together.

The airline industry provides a gloomy metaphor for health care, according to Brandeis University economist Stuart Altman, who spoke at a W. P. Carey School of Business symposium recently.

Our possessions are more than inanimate objects; often they are fraught with meaning, negative or positive.

A study of entrepreneurial cultures by W. P. Carey School of Business management professor Angelo Kinicki revealed similarities in leadership styles of the most successful companies.

Keyword searches can be a waste of valuable time, affecting productivity in a company with an extensive database.

The qualities that set high performers apart from their colleagues have been put under the research microscope of two marketing professors at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

An information systems researcher at the W. P.

The recent explosion of corporate scandals has everyone wondering — why do organizations become corrupt? How can we build safeguards against systemic corruption? And, is an individual able to change a corrupt workplace culture without paying too high a price?