Business Research Guides 

Company Directories and Lists
Profiles and Rankings
Public and Private Companies
Mergers, Acquisitions and Bankruptcies
Companies in News and Scholarly Articles
Data
Nonprofit Organizations 
Business History

 

Company Directories and Lists

Databases
Business & Company Resource Center (via iConn) Provides company profiles, rankings, investment reports etc. Search by SIC and NAICS. Inc includes information from major business directories such as Ward's .

KLD Socrates Contains social records on more than 3,000 US and international companies. Coverage includes the areas of environment, employee relations, diversity, community, product quality, and non-US operations. Company profiles also report any involvement in alcohol, adult entertainment, gambling, tobacco, military contracting, and nuclear power.

LexisNexis Tip: Click on Business and Company Dossier.

OneSource Quick search by company name to retrieve company fact sheet, build a company list with detailed search variables, or a list of competitors. Strong focus on North American companies.

Plunkett Research Online Provides business intelligence, industry trends, statistics, market research, sales leads & corporate profiles and in depth analysis of top companies. 

Reference USA Compiled from Yellow Pages and Business White Pages telephone directories, 10-Ks and other SEC documents, trade publications and more. Quick search and custom search options; 'linkage' feature to find a company's parent or subsidiary.

Print Directories: All current editions are available in the reference section of the Social Science Library, 140 Prospect Street. Tip: Search Orbis by subject: business enterprises united states directories to retrieve more print sources.

America's Corporate Families: the Billion Dollar Directory HG4057 A153
D&B Million Dollar Directory HC102 D85
D&B Principal International Businesses HF54 U5 P74
Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory HG4961 V36X
LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations HG4057 A219
Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies HG4057 A33X Hoover's Handbook of World Business HG4009 H66X

 

Profiles and Rankings
D&B Business Rankings Social Science Library, reference stacks HF5035 D68

Forbes' Lists Scroll down to find links to various companies' lists. Fortune's Lists Includes Fortune 500, Fortune Global and Fortune's fastest-growing companies.

International Directory of Company Histories Social Science Library, reference stacks HD2721 I63

Thomson ONE Banker.  Includes analysts reports formerly found on Investext. From “Company Analysis” click on the blue Research folder and Research Reports to pull up reports on a specific firm.  Click on Conduct Research Report Search to access reports by company, industry, full text, contributor and more.  Either choice opens up a new browser window. For quicker access select Thomson Research from the “Jump To” box at the top of the page.

ISI Emerging Markets Country and company information for emerging markets in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Mergent Industrial Manual Social Science Library reference stacks, MG4961 M595 Good resource for historical information. See also Mergent Web Reports.

OneSource Includes company and industry information and analysis; comprehensive resource for news stories, financial data, corporate overview, research reports etc.

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.

 

Public and Private Companies
Corporate Filings: All companies traded on the stock market in the US must file financial information with the SEC. View a list of the types of SEC filings. The Edgar Database which contains the actual filings, is available to the general public. See the databases listed below that Yale subscribes to for proprietary resources.

Databases
Thomson One filings are customizable and Thomson adds additional data. If a user wants only annual reports for a US or international company, or any US SEC document, start here; 1995+ .  

Deep Backfile on microfiche (inquire at the SSL front desk) collection includes: NYSE: annual reports, proxy statements, 10k's: 1976 - 1988 , NASDAQ: proxy statements, 10 k's: 1989 - present, microfiche

 

Mergers, Acquisitions and Bankruptcies
Mergerstat Review tracks mergers and acquisitions of at least $1 million. Tip: search by title in Orbis, select Yale Internet Resource to retrieve this title in LexisNexis. LexisNexis Click on Business, then company profiles; use the source drop-down menu to bankruptcy reports.

Securities and Exchange Commission Search SEC Form 8-K (current event form which includes bankruptcies and other corporate changes).

Securities and Exchange Commission on corporate bankruptcies..

U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
U.S. Courts Bankruptcy Resources
U.S. Courts Bankruptcy Statistics

 

Companies in News and Scholarly Articles
ABI/Inform Full-text articles from business magazines and journals, trade journals, and newspapers.

Business Source Complete Full-text and abstracts of articles in scholarly journals, business and trade periodicals, newspapers, and news feeds.

Factiva Search the free text. There are several choices to limit your search.

 

Data
Bloomberg (Available only in the Social Science Library and in B66 at SOM) Use Bloomberg to: track stock, bond, and commodity prices over time (Bloomberg provides intraday, daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual prices as well as graphs and charts), compare two stocks, two bonds, or a stock or bond to an index, find corporate debt and credit ratings, find a public company's financial ratios.

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a comprehensive web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources. The Yale subscription includes CRSP, Compustat, NYSE TAQ, and selected files from IRRC, Thomson SDC and Optionmetrics. Available in SSL on a dedicated workstation and remotely for qualified students and faculty,

 

Nonprofit Organizations
GuideStar Provides operational and financial information on US nonprofit organizations. It provides basic information for over 850,000 nonprofits, including access to PDFs of the organization’s IRS Form 990 and over 180,000 analyst reports. IRS Online version of publication 78. Search for charities and non-profits

Charity Navigator

Encyclopedia of Associations Available through Gale's Ready Reference Shelf

Foundation Directory Search by foundation, grant and IRS Form 990.

GrantSmart Online tax return database

Business History

Making of the Modern World  The Making Of The Modern World: The Goldsmiths'- Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850 (formerly The Making of the Modern Economy) provides digital facsimile images on every page of works of literature on economic and business published in Europe and North America from 1450 through 1850.

Proquest Historical Annual Reports A digital database comprised of annual reports from hundreds of top North American companies from over the last 160 years. Industries covered include manufacturing, transportation, oil and gas, food and beverage and retail.

Mergent Web Reports  Use for company histories, consolidated income accounts and balance sheets. Includes the full text of the following Moody'/ Mergent manuals from 1909 to 2005: Bank and Finance, Industrial, International, OTC Industrial OTC Unlisted, Public Utility and Transportation. Searchable by year and company name only.

Wall Street Journal Historical   Wall Street Journal; Eastern edition is a financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news.1889-1988.

Historical New York Times Online access to articles from the New York Times, currently covering from 1851 to the present.

Historical Newspapers Complete  Includes: Atlanta Constitution(1868-1925),Atlanta Daily World (1932-2003),Boston Globe(1872-1922),Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975),Chic. Tribune(1849-1985),Christian Science Monitor(1908-1992),Hartford Courant(1764-1922),L.A. Sentinel (1946-2005)
L.A. Times(1881-1985),N.Y. Amsterdam News (1922-1993),N.Y. Times(1851-2002),N.Y. Tribune(1900-1910),Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
Wall Street Journal(1889-1988),Washington Post(1877-1989).

Business and Company Resource Center  Includes International Directory of Company Histories.