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Super Bowl XLII represents an estimated $450 million in direct and ancillary revenues for businesses and entrepreneurs.

Coffee juggernaut Starbucks is facing new challenges in the American-style café business that it created around the globe. Competition is increasing; even McDonalds — where the ambience is not exactly Starbucks — is adding the job title "barista" to its stores.

Electric utilities are in the business of selling electrons. The more they sell, the more they earn. But today, a whirlwind of forces is sweeping electron sellers into counterintuitive activities such as promoting conservation and offering rate structures designed to cut peak consumption.

One of the most difficult tasks for a worker is negotiating with a boss.

Videoconferencing has been touted as a practical, here-today technology that can save companies from having to fly employees all over. But despite its practicality, adoption of this technology has been minimal.

A groundbreaking study has finally put a dollar figure on a previously unanswered question: how much do physicians' practices, due to government regulation, pay to ensure their poorest patients get the right prescription drugs?

Most assessments of employability focus on traditional models that consider skills, work experience, education and personality traits. But today more than ever, organizations need employees who can adapt and are comfortable doing so.

At kickoff time on February 3, Phoenix will be the focus of attention for some 90 million sports fans worldwide. The 75,000 lucky ticket holders and the thousands more who visit with them will give the metropolitan area an economic shot in the arm.

Immigration has been controversial throughout American history. Roger Daniels' book "Guarding the Golden Door" is a scholarly yet eminently readable account of U.S. immigration policy.

In Arizona alone, non-citizen immigrant workers contribute $29 billion to the economy. That's 8 percent of the state's output, created by about 280,000 workers. State and local tax revenues resulting from their economic activity totaled $1.5 billion. What if that labor supply became unavailable?