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The officer in charge of the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 would have had early warning of the Japanese attack that day had he asked his radar watchers how many planes they had spotted. This story is sometimes told to students in the W. P.

Leaders acquire the power to affect the behavior of others by controlling access to valued resources. But often access involves an element of reciprocity, says W. P. Carey associate professor of management Kevin Corley, who studies and teaches leadership theory and skills.

One of the characteristics of leadership is the ability to spur others to follow your direction. But exactly how do leaders do it? Kevin Corley, an associate professor of management at the W. P. Carey School of Business, studies leadership.

The unsettled Phoenix metro real estate market saw foreclosures as a share of the market rise to 29 percent in November, according to a report from W. P. Carey School of Business Professor Emeritus Jay Butler.

If Arizona’s economy were a hospital patient, she would be out of intensive care, but still in the hospital. In other words, the economy is doing better and certainly on the road to recovery, but it isn’t recovered yet.

The U.S. economic recovery is anemic. Unemployment is high, and housing is depressed. Gyrations in the stock market leave investors dizzy. But in these difficult times there is cause for optimism, from the standpoint of both individual investors and the U.S.

The W. P. Carey School’s annual annual Spirit of Enterprise Awards “are designed to recognize real entrepreneurs -- those capable of starting something, growing it and sustaining it through thick and thin with constant innovation and customer focus,” according to Dean Robert Mittelstaedt.

American consumers are mad. About 50 million of us experienced at least one problem with a product or service in the last year, and it really got our blood boiling.

Chris Cookson, president of Sony Pictures Technologies, has been a participant in and observer of entertainment technology advances over the past 20 years.

Activity in the Phoenix real estate market dropped in October – a dynamic as seasonal as the cooling temperatures, because in most years sales slow as the holidays approach. A decline in foreclosures was responsible for part of the overall slowing, according to the report authored by W. P.