Business Research Guides 

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Before you begin your research, look at US Census Bureau  which contains 2000 NAICS and 1987 SIC industry codes and explanations of why and where these codes are used. When searching for your industry's code it is easier to browse the NAICS list than find a particular industry using a keyword search. Try typing in the best one keyword description of the industry you are looking for and then browse through the results for the best match. When you click on the NAICS number you will get to a page with the corresponding SIC. Sometimes searching for an industry can be tricky so try to think of synonyms. For example: if you are looking for the NAICS/SIC for used car dealers and type "car" into the search box the resulting list will include car manufacturers and car detailers but no car dealers. However, if you type in "automobile" the results list will include automobile dealerships, used.

Financial, Economic and Marketing Data
Investments/Analysts Reports and Journal Articles
U.S. and International News
U.S. and International Statistics
Regulation, Law and Policy
Paper Resources

Financial, Economic and Marketing Data
Financial
Thomson One   is a major source for documents on companies traded on the major U.S. stock exchanges, such as annual reports filed with the SEC; also includes international annual reports and Worldscope data.  Private Equity provides information on completed investments and PE firm activity, investment statistics, and rankings of PE firms.  Thomson ONE Banker provides access to financial data on public companies, as well as merger and acquisition information and market data. Users can search and screen across databases to identify companies that meet specific investment criteria as well as conduct peer analysis. Thomson ONE  contains SDC Platinum, VentureXpert and Streetevents.

Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage A comprehensive database that includes the full text of the following S& P publications and more: 1. Register of Corporations: contains private and public company information searchable by location, industry, executives, etc. (a major national directory) 2. Statistical sources such as: Bond Guide; Dividend Record; Stock Guide, etc. 3. Industry Surveys (really important for industry reviews); The Outlook; Stock Reports etc.

ISI Emerging Markets Delivers hard-to-get information on more than 70 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe. It provides access to full-text news, articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes etc.

Reference USA is an online database that provides information on over ten million US businesses. Companies can be searched by name, location, type of business, business size, or any combination of these features. Hint: Scroll to the bottom of the screen to search for similar or complementary companies located nearby.

Value Line Research Center and Value Line Historical Provide a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. 

Capital IQ: Comprehensive information on over 47,000 public companies, 822,000 private companies, 12,000 private capital firms, 370,000 transactions, and 1,000,000 professionals worldwide. Available to SOM students only.  Click on: Career, Tools, Industry Research, General Resources.

Economic Data
EIU Databases Include EIU Country Data which gives access to 272 economic series in 115 countries. The data go back to 1980 with forecasts to 2003. The variables given for each country are divided into the following categories: Economic structure, Foreign payments, External debt stock, External debt service, External trade, Trends in foreign trade, and Quarterly indicators. Download data to spreadsheets.See also EIU Country Reports and EIU Country Profiles.

Source OECD: Includes publications - monographs, periodicals, and statistical databases - issued by the OECD. This resource contains monographs and and serials on topics such as: agriculture & food; education & skills; emerging economics; employment; energy; enterprise, industry & trade; environment & sustainable development; finance & investment; general economics & future studies; governance; international development; nuclear energy; science & information technology; social issues & migration; statistics sources & methods; taxation; territorial economy; transition economics; transport and more.

UNdata: Provides selected statistical series for all countries and areas and selected series from more specialized international data sources. Information provided on data sources, definitions and classifications.

World Development Indicators Provides over 500 time series of economic and socioeconomic data from more than 230 countries, incorporating data from the World Bank publications World Tables, Social Indicators of Development, World Population Projections, the World Development Report, and the World Bank Atlas. See also World Bank eLibrary and Doing Business.

Marketing
Business Insights contains a series of management reports which are produced in association with Datamonitor, a leading international market research company with a reputation for independent analysis of market and industrial sectors. Sectors covered include: ENERGY | CONSUMER GOODS | FINANCE | HEALTHCARE | TECHNOLOGY

eMarketer  Provides market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies. Aggregates and analyzes information from over 3,000 sources, and brings it together in analyst reports, daily research articles and the eStat Database (a compilation of e-business and online marketing statistics.

Euromonitor GMID Consumer market size for over 330 products including meat, fish, dairy products, confectionary, beverages, tobacco, household cleaning, etc. and demographic trends, economic trends, banking and finance, import/export, labor force indicators, industrial production, environmental data, consumer expenditure patterns, retail sales, literacy and more.

Mintel Market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis, trending data and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market.

Investment /Analysts Reports and Journal Articles 

Thomson One  Compiled mainly from brokerage reports, analysts reports and consulting firms, this source contains industry trends, company financials, reports, brokerage reports, marketing strategies market share forecasts, industry statistics, country risk and more.

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OneSource Delivers company and industry information and analysis on hundreds of industries and thousands of public and private companies. HINT: For smaller companies click on Companies to search by industry and size and CorpTech descriptions for technology companies. Choose News and Reports and check tables only for quick statistics on an industry.

Business & Company Research Center Coverage includes business journals, news and press releases, corporate chronologies and histories, First Call consensus estimates plus selected investment reports.

Wall Street Transcript " We interview Wall Street professionals and corporate leaders, which help us bring the views of stock market insiders to our readers." Useful for information on emerging industries. For example, searching for "new antibiotics" retrieves information on companies as well as on the background of the industry.

Institutional Investor Full text of the International and Americas edition of the Institutional Investor and Alpha (covers global hedge funds). Includes league tables, research rankings, Hedge Fund 100 and more.

Journal Articles
Business Source Complete A comprehensive source of online journal articles. HINT : click scholarly and full text to retrieve academic articles to your desktop. Click Company Directory to search by line of business. Important: The only source of the full text of the Harvard Business Review. COMPLEMENTS: ABI InForm.

US and International News
Lexis Nexis Academic A full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information.

Factiva Publications Library contains more than 80 million articles from newspapers, magazines, trade journals etc. and is the exclusive archive of the Wall Street Journal. HINT: Use Factiva Intelligent indexing to search by subject, company, region, subject, and publication.

Regulation, Law and Policy

Lexis-Nexis Congressional is an online legislative and regulatory service that provides full text access to the Federal Register (from 1980), the Congressional Record (from 1985) and the National Journal (from 1977) and more! For example, one can use this resource to find references in the Federal Register to retirees.

CQ Weekly and CQ Researcher provide web access to Congressional Quarterly's (CQ) print publications, including access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.

GPO Access provides online access to full text congressional and executive agency documentation, including the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, congressional bills and resolutions, congressional documents and reports, the General Accounting Office "blue books", and the Economic Indicators (Joint Economic Committee). It also provides access to the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications and a connection to the Federal Bulletin Board files.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service covers the literature of public affairs including political, economic and social issues. It contains references to articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports and publications of international agencies. Publications from more than 60 countries are included. Materials indexed are in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Lexis-Nexis State Capital , our flagship product for state-level information, contains state statutes, full text of state regulations, information about state legislators and their staffs, and news sources for information on state issues for all 50 states. Searching under topics like "state employees and evaluation" works well in this database.

Policy Central (National Journal) includes the National Journal, a leading journal on politics, policy and government; a full text searchable story archive back to 1977, AdSpotlight, an online guide to political and issue ads from across the country, and Technology Daily, a twice daily resource which examines information technology politics and policy at the state, national and international levels. Technology Daily is the major source of information for students interested in an IT career in the public sector.

Paper Resources
For further sources search Orbis , Yale's online catalog. Set Limits to the last 2 years, and search by keywords venture capital.

Galante's venture capital & private equity directory Social Science Library, Reference Stacks HG4961 V36X
Directory of limited partners : investors in private equity and other alternative asset funds Social Science Library, Reference Stacks HG4963 +D57X
Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Social Science Library, Reference Stacks HG65 +R8
Angel investing : matching startup funds with startup companies Social Science Library HG4027.6 V36X 2000
eBoys : the first inside account of venture capitalists at work/ Randall E. Stross. Social Science Library HG2463 A2 S77X 2000
Venture capital and private equity : a casebook Social Science Library HG4963 L47X 2000