Merger mania and a bigger-is-better mentality largely rule the business world, but sometimes the exception — spin-offs — provide an alternate path to prosperity if the organization can weather the storms of such a radical change.

Companies that retain their competitive edge have learned how to raise up leaders in the ranks of middle management who have the skills to drive corporate strategy.

Selling and providing services is not what it used to be. Thanks to an ultra-competitive B2B services market and an increase in the number of companies contracting core functions to outsourced providers, purchasing departments have reinvented their services buying process.

Throughout its nearly 100 years of existence, General Motors has been an icon of business. "What's good for GM is good for the country" -- a loose paraphrase of a statement made 50 years ago by a GM president -- has come to summarize for many the pervasive role of corporations in America.

Dual-career marriages account for about 65 percent of the workforce, according to the Clayman Institute for Gender Studies in Stanford, California. How do these couples balance the demands of work and family?

Judi Hand, president and general manager of Direct Alliance, a business process outsourcer, visited the W. P. Carey School of Business recently to speak to an audience of students attending the Executive Luncheon Series.

From the light bulb to the Google algorithm, new ideas have changed the way we live and have created great wealth for those who bring them to market. Many of the old ideas we have about innovation are false, however.

Telecom giant Sprint-Nextel recently decided about a thousand of its customers were just a little bit too demanding, so it went ahead and fired them. The remarkable move made headlines nationwide and since has left business analysts to ponder two questions. First, was Sprint justified?

Self-confidence, persistence, flexibility, and an affinity for success are the hallmarks of an entrepreneur: A person who'll take an idea and run with it — frequently to the bank.

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.