Reaction to Rupert Murdoch's $5.6 billion takeover of the Dow Jones Co. and The Wall Street Journal is a reminder of how highly businesspeople value the venerable news organization.

Arizona has enjoyed flexibility in its state budget-building for the last several years, thanks to a revenue spike that piled up into a welcome and useful surplus. That flexibility is disappearing, however, as revenues lag compared to the recent past.

To customers, there's not much to loyalty programs; on the surface they're usually just a piece of plastic and a "Here's how much you saved" line at the bottom of a receipt.

Two-thirds of all bills introduced in state legislatures are filed at the request of state or local government agencies, business associations, social activist groups, companies, or individual citizens. Most of those are brought to the legislature by legislative advocates, or lobbyists.

As more and more states begin targeting insurance reform, the costs and problems they face become increasing evident. Still, the current system of health-insurance coverage in the U.S.

Mark Barratt wants to see Tesco succeed in America. The British expatriate and assistant professor of supply chain management at the W. P. Carey School and his wife have lived in the U.S. for five years, and they still haven't found a one-store replacement for the U.K.'s monster chain.

The collapse of the subprime market has hit hedge funds hard. According to Anthony Sanders, professor of finance and real estate at the W. P. Carey School of Business, many hedge funds forgot due diligence when the real estate market was hottest, and are now stuck with bad paper.

If interest in the movie "Sicko" is any indication, insurance woes are moving to the forefront of public concerns. Will we soon see real reform that gives the 45-million Americans with no insurance coverage a safety net?

People who work in service positions — police officers, hair stylists, dentists, real estate agents &mdahs; are aware that they are on stage, playing a role, while on the job.

The supermarket sample is a familiar ploy, but those tasty bites appear to have more impact than marketers imagined.