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A Business Researcher's Interests
(BRINT)
A site for information technology, business information,
and high-tech industry developments.
Recommended for current company, industry, technical,
and business news.
Knowledge@Wharton
Bi-weekly online site run by the Wharton School at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Offers the latest business information, research news,
and trends in industry.
Contains a searchable database of articles and abstracts.
Requires registration (free) to read articles.
Annual
Reports Service (Wall Street Journal)
Provides quick access to annual reports and other relevant
information on select companies.
Search by alphabetical listing, industry, or by entering
a specific company name.
CAROL (Company Annual Reports On-Line)
Access to annual reports from the United States and
European companies.
Public Register's Annual Report
Service (PRARS)
Free service for requesting printed copies of annual
reports sent via U.S. mail.
Report Gallery
Provides access to online versions of annual reports
of over 2200 U.S. companies, as well as Japanese, Korean, British and South
African companies.
American Society of Association
Executives
Provides access to ASAE member associations that have
web pages.
Associations on the Net
Provides hyperlinks to over 1000 association web pages.
CNN Financial News
Includes currency exchange information, stockquotes,
current business stories in the news, and much more.
CEO Express
Designed to be the executives’ interface to the Internet.
Provides stock quotes, headline news, and other relevant
business information.
PR Newswire
Provides information for the individual investor as
well as the financial and business community.
Includes daily stock and analysis of several industries,
including technology, entertainment, health, automotive and others.
Newspaper Links
Provides hyperlinks to dailies, weeklies, international
papers, college papers, and more from throughout the United States and the world.
Collection is not limited to business newspapers.
Business Wire
Provides business headlines on the hour.
Can search news releases from the past two days.
Individual.com
Formerly called NewsPage, the site is an interactive
news service that provides up to 20,000 news stories from each day from over
600 sources.
Provides the option for the user to receive news of
his or her choice by setting up a profile.
Factiva
Provides information from leading newspapers, magazines,
and newswires.
Site has over 6,000 newswires, newspapers, magazines,
and trade journals.
Provides company, industry, country, and market research
reports.
Search by company name, company symbol, or by industry.
Statistical Abstract
of the United States
Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Each section is shown in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document
Format (PDF). You'll need Acrobat
Reader installed on your computer in order to read it.
U.S. Census Bureau
Look here for all aspects of the U.S. Census, including
the TIGER® (Topographically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing)
mapping system.
Also included are current economic indicators for the
United States.
Factiva
Provides information from leading newspapers, magazines,
and newswires.
Site has over 6,000 newswires, newspapers, magazines,
and trade journals.
Provides company, industry, country, and market research
reports.
Search by company name, company symbol, or by industry.
Mergent
Online
The Company Data Direct/U.S. Database provides directory,
financial, historical, and other information on over 10,000 public companies.
Included is real-time access to the SEC EDGAR filings
dating from 1993+, 10 years of financial data, and the ability to create lengthy
detailed reports.
Hoover's Online
Provides links to public and private companies in the
U.S.
You can find companies by industry as well as name
of company.
SEC EDGAR
Click here for 10-K and other reports that public companies
must file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
EDGAR
Online University Edition
The same EDGAR database but with different interfaces.
The Thomas Register
of American Manufacturers
Free registration required.
More than 155,000 companies included.
Can search by products and services as well as by company
name.
Industry
Research Desk
Published by Oklahoma State University, this excellent
site includes "Researching an Industry or Company" which takes you through the
process of company or industry research step by step.
Investment and Financial Information
CNN Financial News
Provides currency exchange information, stock quotes,
and current business stories.
Value
Line
Provides investment research on stocks, industries,
the stock markets, and the economy.
Management and Human Resources
WorkIndex
Annotated guide to Internet resources in "human resources,
labor relations, benefits, training, technology, staffing, leadership, motivation,...
and more."
Search the collection or browse by subject.
Published jointly by Human Resource Executive
magazine and the School of Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University.
Patents & Trademarks
IBM Intellectual Property
Network
You can search, retrieve, and study over two million
U.S.Patent & Trademark Office patent descriptions in this database.
Patent images from 1980 are included.
The first entries date back to January, 1971.
U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office
Includes the U.S. Patent Database which provides front
page information from U.S. patents issued from 1/76 to the present, as well
as the Patent Full-Text Database and the Trademark Database.
Product/Service Classification
North American
Industry Classification System
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
provides common industry definitions for Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
The NAICS system replaces the countries' separate classification
systems with one uniform system for classifying industries.
In the United States, NAICS replaced the Standard Industrial
Classification system.
This site, provided by the U.S. Bureau of the Census,
translates SIC codes into the newer NAICS codes.
Standard Industrial Classification Codes(SIC)
Superseded by the North American Industry Classification
System (NAICS).
The Simpson Library has a print version of this resource
at REFB/HF1042/.A55/1987.
CCH Business Owner's Toolkit
(Commerce Clearing House)
Information in SOHO Guidebook will answer questions
regarding business, taxes, and legal issues.
Site offers ready-to-use business tools to help complete
tasks more efficiently.
Edward Lowe Foundation
Offers a wide range of topics relevant to building
a business.
Feature articles and recent publications available
on the site provide a source of information to entrepreneurs and business owners.
EntreWorld
Site is updated daily.
Provides information quickly and easily through a search
engine that delivers useful information, guidance, and contacts.
Small Business Knowledge Base
A resource of small business information with guides,
tools, and techniques.
U.S. Small Business Administration
Provides financial, technical, and management assistance
to help with starting, running, and adding growth to businesses.
BUAD 259: Research Methods in Business
BUAD 381: Financial Management
BUAD 473: International Business Environment
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