Posts under ‘Business Resources’

Many of you know the Conference Board for its reports on the Consumer Confidence Index and economic indicators of the business cycle but they are also active researchers in many areas of management , corporate governance and executive compensation. In May 2007 The Conference Board formed a Research Working Group on Hedge Fund Activism and [...]

When researching a company’s product(s), one should also consider the competition. The Mergent Horizon database, available through the Newman Library website, has a feature allowing users to generate reports identifying a company’s competitor(s) by product.

Once connected to Mergent Horizon, search for a company by ticker symbol or company name
In the company record that appears, [...]

Gartner, a market research and advisory firm, is a leading provider of research in IT markets. If you are doing research about new technology issues, tech companies or tech markets, Gartner’s reports, briefings, news analysis and online Webcasts will be valuable. Gartner reports are unique in that they tie together issues and industry applications. They [...]

An industry analysis is a common research assignment. If you are new to this type of research and don’t know where to start, I recommend that you begin by reading the Standard & Poor’s Industry Survey in the library database called Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage. S&P publishes Industry Surveys covering fifty-two industries, pretty [...]

Michael Porter’s theory of the “Five Forces” is often used as the framework for industry analysis in business strategy classes. Porter wrote the classic article “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” in the Harvard Business Review in 1979 and followed in 1980 with the book Competitive Strategy. Ever since students have been testing the [...]

The ReferenceUSA database contains information for:

Over 14 million U.S. businesses, 950,000 high-tech companies (look in the Corp Tech section), 1.5 million Canadian businesses
210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, and 12 million Canadian households

Why should you use ReferenceUSA?

Identify businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business, location, year established, and other criteria
Identify private [...]

Bankscope is a comprehensive, global database containing information on public and private banks. It includes information on 25,000 banks around the world. It combines data from the main information provider, Fitch Ratings, and nine other sources, with software for searching and analysis.
Newman librarians also like this database for the valuable bundled reports from Economist Intelligence [...]

Edgar’s Online I-Metrix is a Newman Library database providing full text access to SEC filings, ownership data, earnings estimates and company people. Locate specific filings by type, IPO, or topic. Analytics provide financial statement data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) which tags each line item of data for export to Excel. Use XBRL for [...]

Do you want convenient, online access to today’s or recent New York Times and Wall Street Journal? Would you like to read or scan the paper by section (front page, arts & leisure, and etc.)? Then use the library database called Factiva.

After connecting to Factiva via the library’s website, click on the News [...]

Are you working — or will you work — in the business and finance field? Then you should read an article by Louise Klusek and Jerry Bornstein, members of the Newman Library faculty. Their article explored business and finance job profiles. Findings show how skills and work related activities for business and finance occupations demand [...]