Research team discovers an unintended benefit of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Aside from tightening controls on corporate misbehavior, the law creates better board governance which, in turn, improves a corporation's credibility with the market.

As the Center for Services Leadership at the W. P. Carey School of Business enters its third decade, its founders recall a time when they faced off with skeptics who doubted the importance of services in business education.

New research shows world-class measurement systems for strategic sourcing and the supply chain help drive an organization's cost savings, revenue growth, new product development, supplier relationships, and shareholder value. What's the secret?

A marketing professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business examines the client-supplier relationship in a recent research survey.

"It's you!" How many times have shoppers heard heard that expression? While shopping online, however, customers are pretty much alone in the store. The tools currently available to retailers are limited in their ability to speak to individual consumers.

When Wharton professor Karl Ulrich began thinking about ways to compensate for the pollution he caused in everyday life — including auto emissions — he came up with a novel idea, which he eventually pitched to the 41 students in his "Problem Solving, Design and System Improvement" class.

In April 2004, Wal-Mart announced a pilot program that would require its top 100 suppliers to be RFID compliant — attaching Radio Frequency Identification tags on cases and pallets destined for Wal-Mart stores and Sam's Club locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth area — by January 2005.

Activity in the Phoenix real estate market dropped between June and July, during the summer season when sales are usually up. The reason is that foreclosure-related activity fell once again — dropping below 30 percent for the first time since 2009.

Power is something that every leader, every manager and every business owner seeks, and needs, to further their interests.

During the financial crisis and the resulting recession, companies set tough targets for their CFOs, refusing, in some cases, to give bonuses unless companies reported positive earnings, accounting professor Michal Matejka says.