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"The in-box culture is dead," says Evan Rosen in his new book, The Culture of Collaboration: Maximizing Time, Talent and Tools to Create Value in the Global Economy.

Women who become entrepreneurs don't miss the corporate glass ceiling, but while some women business owners say that they do not encounter gender bias in the business world, others complain that they have to demonstrate an extra level of excellence and competence to men and women alike.

When executed correctly, strategic sourcing — a multi-faceted approach to purchasing contingent on types of goods and services — yields many benefits for both buying companies and their suppliers.

Whether or not you believe the science on climate change is irrelevant, says Andrew J. Hoffman, a University of Michigan professor of sustainable enterprise. Whatever you think, it's long past the time to open your eyes to the business implications.

In 2001, China became the first centrally-planned economy admitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) — the only global international organization designed to facilitate multilateral trade between its member nations.

If you're one of the millions of workers left behind after layoffs, sweating over an inflated workload, fretting that you might be next, you already know how demoralizing a "reduction in force" (RIF) can be. If you're managing layoff survivors, you have even more reason to worry.

Economy-watchers anticipated poor performance from the economy in the first quarter of 2009, and they got what they expected when the Bureau of Economic Analysis released the advance report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Current economic reports are grim, with indicators such as capacity utilization and housing starts at levels consistent with a deep contraction. Yet, there is a widespread view among analysts that the official end date of this recession is not that far off, sometime in late 2009.

Arizona real estate markets tend to swing wildly. During boom periods, home prices accelerate precipitously, but when the bubble bursts, residential values sometimes slink all the way back to the price level at the start of cyclical upturn.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently came out with new rules governing "mark-to-market accounting." Entities employing mark-to-market adjust the value of financial assets up or down, according to fair market value.