Phoenix real estate: After a poor October, all eyes on holiday shoppers
The slumping Phoenix real estate market reached an ironic point in October where it was both "boring" and scary at the same time, according to Associate Professor of Real Estate Jay Butler, author of the W. P. Carey School's monthly resale home market report.
States struggle to get back to prior peak employment
The advance report on third quarter economic growth (released October 29) was not really bad news. After all, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was up by 2.0 percent, not on the decline as it would be in a double-dip recession.
Boot camp for IT managers: The MSIM Applied Project
Many business school-based IT programs are balanced heavily toward technology, but not the Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) at the W. P. Carey School.
The IT thread: New business students learn about IT ubiquity
Information Systems Lecturer Matthew McCarthy says "there's no business that doesn't have IT coursing through it." That's why in the W. P. Carey School, all incoming students — no matter what major they have chosen — are required to take CIS 105.
Brad Casper: Managing strategy, structure, innovation and culture in multi-national companies
Until very recently, Brad Casper was the president and CEO of The Dial Corporation, a part of Henkel AG & Co.
The Economic Minute: Robert Mittelstaedt looks at the sector-driven recovery
The Economic Club of Phoenix opened its new season October 28, 2010. "The Economic Minute" is a monthly thumbnail update that is a regular feature at Economic Club luncheons. This month, W. P. Carey Dean Robert Mittelstaedt talked about the dynamics of the sector-driven recovery.
Top forecaster predicts partly cloudy economy with a chance of showers
With the most accurate economic forecast among Blue Chip survey participants for the years 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, Dr. Sherry Cooper of BMO Financial Group is the winner of the 2010 Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue Chip Forecast Accuracy.
Where will the economy be in five years?
As the fourth quarter begins, most economy-watchers have lost any hope that 2010 will be a year of strong growth. Instead, analysts now are expecting that it may be several years before output expands at a consistent pace that is vigorous enough to make a sizeable dent in unemployment rates.
Social media: The wild, wild West of new technology
Leigh Dow, director of the Toolbox for IT at Toolbox.com, addressed the new developments in social media at a recent Showcase Series event sponsored by the Center for Advancing Business Through Information Technology (CABIT) at the W.nbsp;P.nbsp;Carey School's Department of Information Systems.
Bridging the gap: How internal audit and IT can work together to improve information security
In many organizations, the internal audit and information security functions can't seem to get on the same communication wavelength.