Despite higher gas prices, American consumers have not backed off their demand for gas, apparently preferring to cut back consumption in other areas. Average U.S.

The first anniversary of the disaster wrought by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which destroyed more than 400,000 homes in New Orleans and along Mississippi's Gulf coast, raises questions about how an area's housing market recovers from disaster — and about the wisdom of locating housing along hist

Workplaces are the setting for sitcoms and cartoons for good reason — they are networks of imperfect human relationships that provide plenty of material to comedy writers.

The corporate failures of Enron, WorldCom, HealthSouth and Tyco were separate tragedies, but they share a common theme: ethical breakdown that started at the top and permeated the organizations.

Manufacturers have learned to work closely with their suppliers to decrease costs and reduce time to market, but focusing on buyer-supplier relationships may no longer be enough to achieve competitive advantage.

Convenience and cost-savings are powerful incentives for companies to use technology as a way of convening meetings, and they do so knowing that an electronically-mediated session will be different from a face-to-face meeting.

How do you know which hospitals are doing the best job? Patients, insurers and employers all have a stake in the answer to this question, but up until now factual information on hospital and nursing home performance has been scanty, and what is out there is based on differing criteria.

What is small business? According to the Small Business Administration's size standards, an enterprise may still be considered "small" if it employs as many as 1,500 people with revenues up to $32.5 million.

Entrepreneur magazine recently ranked Arizona as the top hot spot for entrepreneurs. However, it is replicative, not innovative, entrepreneurs who are flourishing in Arizona.

Employee turnover is an expensive process. Human resources experts estimate the cost of turnover to range between 93 percent and 200 percent of an exiting worker's annual salary, depending on the employee's skill level.