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Quint Studer is CEO of the Studer Group, a health care consulting firm and recipient of the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

The summer resale season in the Phoenix real estate market has been brisk, with about 10,500 single-family homes changing hands in June. And, for the fourth consecutive month, foreclosure-related sales as a percentage of the total market have fallen.

"Cloud is cheap, fast and easy! Did we mention fast?!" "No hardware required!" "Why build what someone has already built?" Marketing pitches for cloud solutions sometimes run to hyperbole, creating a communications challenge for IT leaders.

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.

Have you heard? Economy-watchers (and incumbent office-holders) are saying the U.S. economy added nearly two million jobs in the past 15 months. Why focus on 15 months?

The volume of home sales in May in the Phoenix market was about on par with the rest of this spring's resale season, although the percentage represented by foreclosures continued a modest decline.

Steve Phillips is vice president and chief information officer for Avnet, Inc.

The mile markers in an academic career include the first post — as assistant professor — when scholars prove their research and teaching mettle. If successful, they are awarded tenure and the accompanying "associate professor" title.

Polls have shown that Americans — especially young Americans — are increasingly skeptical about the concept of capitalism, and are mistrustful of the leaders of large corporations.

The devastating earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan in March provided an important lesson for supply chain managers: we are often one disaster away from a major break in the way we conduct business.