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BYU's Romney Institute named Carolyn Grow Dailey, president and CEO of ASCEND Alliance, as 2008 Administrator of the Year.
The retirement question often surrounds how much money you’re making, saving, and spending. It’s all about the time when work ends and, presumably, fun begins. You’ve either been stashing cash away, buying stocks, or even building a family business with the possible goal of selling it and enjoying retirement. Yet once retiree life begins, the financial work doesn’t suddenly end. The question now becomes: How will you make your savings last so you don’t run out of money before you run out of life?
According to a new BYU study, city employees who work four 10-hour days a week experience lower levels of at-home conflict.
W. Gibb Dyer received a $5,000 grant from the FOBI to study how owning a business affects family relationships.
Come ride the lift to Silicon Slopes, Utah's high-tech corridor, at the semiannual eBusiness Day.
Innovating a franchise to fit local conditions may actually lead to less growth, shows a new Marriott School study.
According to new research, better decisions come from teams that include a socially distinct newcomer.
A new BYU study found that landing your dream job might be more like a day at the zoo, and that's not necessarily all good.
Two years ago this month, the Crandall Canyon mine collapsed, killing a total of nine. Has the accident affected the safety of coal mining in the U.S.?
People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a BYU-led study.
A study by Jeff Dyer and two associates says innovative CEOs spend 50 percent more time practicing key skills than do their less creative counterparts.
Investors looking to hit it big in 2010 may want to consider a new study by three BYU finance professors.
How Exchange Rates Affect Business and You
When I arrived at BYU eight years ago, I was in my new office, organizing books and filing papers, when I received a telephone call informing me that there had been a glitch in payroll processing, and I would not be receiving a paycheck during the first two months of my employment. I said, “Thank you,” hung up the phone, and started thinking about how to break this news to my wife, Jan. 
A BYU study shows that any entrepreneur looking for the best ROI might be better served by a combination of two strategies.
What does space exploration have to do with business strategy? More than you'd think.
How the French Put U.S. Adoption of International Accounting Standards on the Rocks. 
Employees who love their company and hustle to please their bosses can lead to a higher likelihood of unethical behavior.
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free?
BYU Professor Jeff Dyer's new book helped Forbes to rank the world's most innovative companies.
The Marriott School and BYU named Lincoln Electric chairman the 2011 International Executive of the Year.
A new study finds persuasive packaging can cause consumers to use less of a product once they take it home.
Some babies are born with the double helixes that turn into blue eyes and heads of light, curly hair. Most people think that innovators are born with special genes, like those that determine physical features, that enable them to be innovators an endowment you either have or you don’t.
Airlines' accident risk is highest when they are performing very close to their financial targets, according to a BYU study.