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While August temperatures spiked, the real estate market was cooling down, according to the monthly report from the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

You don’t need to be a famous expert to understand the elements that make up your brand — what matters most is your inquisitiveness. It is your willingness to wonder and ask questions that enables you to gain understanding that you can use to build your brand’s value to your customers.

Everybody needs feedback to learn and grow. Yet how many employees can say they get the feedback necessary to perform well at work and develop their skills for the future? Research indicates that it’s not anywhere near enough.

W. P. Carey entrepreneurship expert Sidnee Peck discusses job growth in the startup sector of the Arizona economy.

Rocky Mountain News PBS quoted Research Professor Timothy James on a study from the L. William Seidman Research Institute about the economic impact of the Colorado River.

Academic interest in how corporations are governed has grown since the WorldCom and Enron Corporation scandals of the early 2000s and the global financial crisis of 2008.

John Lincoln of Lincoln Electric believed his role as a leader was to create an environment where his employees would be encouraged to discover new ways for the company to improve and to bring those suggestions forward for his consideration.

Entrepreneurs who do not sell on the Internet and therefore do not have a merchant account often ask me if they need a digital presence. The answer: a resounding yes! That's because customers and clients use the Internet the way people used the Yellow Pages a generation ago, only more so.

You already knew that decisions about where to locate your business involve factors such as size of space, type of space, common area expenses and rent.

Have you ever thought “Where was I?” when you returned to a task after someone had interrupted you? Task shifting — even pulling yourself away from the computer screen to answer a question — can impact productivity. For astronauts, it can increase risks.