I N T E R NET

BUSINESS RESOURCES

ACCOUNTING

AICPA Online

http://www.aicpa.org/

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' web page is well organized and packed with resources, including student/CPA exam information, links to other accounting-related sites, state news and information, and the tables of contents (and some full text) of five accounting journals.

Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB)

http://www.fasb.org/

The main regulatory agency in the industry : includes text of statements, exposure drafts, and news releases.

Audit.Net
http://www.auditnet.org/

A web based collection of audit related information, products, and services, sponsored by the Institute of Internal Auditors. "AuditNet.org features Kaplan's AuditNet Resource List (KARL) containing more than 950 Internet resources for auditors [http://www.auditnet.org/arltopic.htm]... an inventory of more than 150 audit work programs in text format that you can freely use and modify for your organization, links to the AuditNet Email Directory, FraudNet providing sample fraud and ethics policies, Internet Policies for Auditors, Year 2000 resources for Auditors, and more."

Rutgers Accounting Web

http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/

Links to many valuable accounting resources, including accounting associations, firms, journals and university programs. Information on Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) publications, including news releases and summaries of FASB statements, is available on Rutgers Accounting Web at www.fasb.org

Smart Pros

http://accounting.smartpros.com/

This is a comprehensive source of accounting information on the Internet. In addition, SmartPros.com claims that it is the predominant Web portal for the accounting industry.

CPA Directory

http://www.cpadirectory.com/

CPA Directory is the largest online directory of CPA. You can search by company and personal name, industry serviced and geographical location.

ACRONYMS FOR COMPANY EXTENSIONS

Corporate Information

http://www.corporateinformation.com/defext.asp

This page gives definitions for security identifiers such as CUSIP and for company "extensions" such as "GmbH". While U.S. companies are usually followed by "Inc.", many foreign companies have different endings. The following section tells what these terms mean, and where they are used. If you don't know what country a company is based in, this might help narrow it down a little bit.

ADVERTISING

AAAAgency Search.com / Directory/

http://www.aaaagencysearch.com/

A database of members of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Search the database by agency name, brand or client name, by billings, number of employees, industry experience and category specialties.

Advertising World

Marketing Communications Directory arranged by subject

http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/

Agency ComPile

http://www.agencycompile.com/

Is a database of advertising, public relations, direct marketing, design, sales promotion, interactive, yellow pages, recruitment, and media buying agencies. It provides profiles at the agency level which include a brief overview, client lists, and specialties. Searchable by a variety of criteria.

Advertising Age / Data Center/

http://www.adage.com/datacenter.cms

The bible of the industry. It has 100 Leading National Advertisers with their ad spending estimates, Global Marketers, Top Megabrands, The U.S.’ largest media companies, magazines and newspapers: includes circulation, linage and ad revenue rankings. A Look into the advertsing agencies: data from Ad Age’s 58th annual Agency Report: includes Media Specialist companies, direct marketing and sales promotion shops, Internet agencies, PR firms and more. There are also salary surveys: Ad Age's annual survey of f the salaries of more than 200 top agency executives.

Adflip.com

http://www.adflip.com/

Archive of classic print advertisements searchable by year or decade ( 1940-2002)

AFRICA

African Area Study Resources

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/

A collection of resources from Lehman Library.

Mbendi

http://www.mbendi.co.za/

Mbendi provides overviews of African countries, industries, and major companies. Also, it links to stock exchanges and directories of product/services, conferences, and current projects

ANNUAL REPORTS

Report Gallery

http://www.reportgallery.com/

Annual Reports is the most comprehensive site on the Internet It has over 2000 companies, including most of the Fortune 500. Also includes links to services that compile international Annual Reports.

CAROL: Company Annual Reports Online

http://www.carol.co.uk/

Online annual reports for UK, European, and Asian companies. Reports arranged by industry as well as alphabetically by company name. ( Register)

Public Register’s Annual Report Service

http://www.prars.com/

Company financials, including annual reports, prospectuses and 10Ks for over 3,600 public companies can be ordered without charge from this site. Searches may be limited by industry, ticker symbol, state of business, company name, and exchange. Their collection of over 2,000 online reports is available at Annual Report Service http://www.annualreportservice.com , where You will get access to thousands of annual reports when you sign for a free service. There is also a choice to view the online annual or to request a free hard copy.

Annual Report Service from Wall Street Journal

http://wsj.ar.wilink.com/asp/WSJ1_search_ENG.asp

The service is provided by provided by WILink and The Wall Street. They

will mail (postal mail) copies of annual reports of a large group of companies free of charge.

Investor Relations Information Network (IRIN)

http://www.irin.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi

More than 3,000 current annual reports are available for viewing. IRIN also provides additional data: address, financials and SIC code. Reports are searchable by SIC code in advance mode

Multex

http://www.multexinvestor.com/home.asp

Welcome to The Annual Reports Service, a FREE Service provided by WILink and Multex Investor. The Annual Reports Service provides you with quick access to annual reports and other information on select companies. The reports can be searched trough company name or industry

AGRICULTURE

Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations /

http://apps.fao.org/

FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics /BY COUNTRY/ in the following areas: agriculture production, trade, food balance sheet, nutrition, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products

National Agricultural Statistics Service

http://www.usda.gov/nass/

National Agricultural Statistics Service is searchable by commodity, day of the year (in the reporters calendar), by state, county, historical data and interactive maps. The siute also includes link to the Census of Agriculture; the most comprehensive source of data portraying our Nation's agriculture. It is the only source of uniform data on agricultural production and operator characteristics for each county and state in the country. The Census of Agriculture is taken every five years. ( From 1840 to 1920 the Census of Agriculture was taken every 10 years. Since 1925 the census has been taken about every 5 years).

ANALYSTS

Stock Selector

www.stockselector.com

Type a ticker symbol in the box at the top right of the page; on following
page, for analysts' projections, click "analysts" link. Scroll down to see
the names of the analysts and their affiliated firms.

StarMine

http://www.starmine.com/

Starmine measures analyst recommendation performance on a 1-5 star scale, representing the return performance of an analyst's recommendations relative to his peers. Analysts scoring 4 or 5 stars are displayed here. StarMine analyzes every recommendation, upgrade, and downgrade published by thousands of sell side analysts around the world. StarMine measures analysts two ways: on an absolute scale (used in the industry rankings), and on a coverage-relative scale (used for an analyst's overall score

AUTO INDUSTRY

J D Power & Associates

http://www.jdpower.com/

Provides free access to annual award evaluation reports for the automotive, telecommunications, credit card, and travel industries,. There is also access to a searchable database of statistical and descriptive excerpts from its annual studies.

BANKS

Bank Rate Monitor

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/default.asp

A check up site on current average rates on: loans, mortgages, and savings deposits, as well as the discount rate, prime rate, and some treasury rates. Also contains a loan payment calculator

Bank Technology News

http://www.electronicbanker.com/btn/m_btn2.shtml

Bank Technology News is an industry newspaper, which provides reports and rankings within technology, including home banking, Internet payments, smart cards, automated tellers, data warehousing, intranets, cash management, trading systems, and branch automation. There is a subscription option, but some of the articles are available for free.

Bank Lending / Small Business/

http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/lending/

Banks are ranked based on their small business lending on a state-by-state basis by the the Office of Advocacy. The data comes from the Federal Reserve on the annual lending activity of about 9,000 individually reporting commercial banks.

FRED

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred/fredfile.html

Through the FRED database, (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including: Daily and Weekly US Financial Data, CPI and Producer Price Indexes, Employment and Population Data, Exchange Rate, Balance and Payments and Trade Data, GDP and components, Interest Rates, Monetary Aggregates, Monthly Monetary, Monthly Reserves and Monthly Interest Rates, Commercial Banking Data, Business & Fiscal Data, Regional Business Indicators

and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. The information is well indexed in 12 categories under “Index of all data services”

FDIC

http://www.fdic.gov/

FDIC offers wealth of statistical information on the U.S. banking industry, consumer information, and press releases. Includes full text of a variety of FDIC research reports. Click on the search option and then pick a word for easy navigation of the site or try the “site map” first with alphabetically arranged subjects.

National Information Center (NIC)

http://www.ffiec.gov/NIC/default.htm

The National Information Center (NIC) part of Federal Reserve System provides comprehensive information on banks and other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest including both domestic and foreign banking organizations operating in the U.S.

BANKRUPTCY INFORTMATION

BankruptcyData

http://www.bankruptcydata.com/default.asp

BankruptcyData.com provides instant access to information on thousands of business bankruptcy filings from federal bankruptcy districts. The database is updated daily (for fee)

CourtLink (for fee)

www.courtlink.com

You will need to register and get a user name and password.

PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)(for fee)
http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/register.html

A search can be generated for all bankruptcy courts. Access to dial-up
PACER systems will generate a $.60 per minute charge. Access to web based
PACER systems will generate a $.07 per page charge.

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

http://www.uscourts.gov/bnkrpctystats/bankruptcystats.htm

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts compiles statistics on bankruptcy for each quarter ending December, March, June and September. The fiscal year for the federal Judiciary ends September 30. The calendar year ends December 31. Quarterly and 12 month statistics are available approximately 2 months after the close of a quarter.

WebBRD Bankruptcy Database

http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu/

Free database compiled by UCLA Law professor, Lynn Lopucki

BENEFITS/ EMPLOYMENT *(See Salary)

BEST PRACTICES

Best Practices LLC

http://www.best-in-class.com/

Provides, for a fee, best practices reports in such areas as : customer service, human resources, knowledge management, sales, marketing etc. Many reports are available for $5 or less, and free sample reports in each area are available. The service also provides benchmarking reports, books and research, but for a much higher price.

E-Business Forum

http://www.ebusinessforum.com/

E-Business Forum is the EIU's center for information on E-commerce worldwide. It provides news and reports on the state of e-commerce in many countries as well as best practices reports and "thought leadership" articles, which provide analysis of the industry.

BOARD MEMBERS ( Public Companies)

EDGAR Online People

http://people.edgar-online.com/people/

Edgar Online People searches SEC Filings by a person's name or displays all people associated with a specific company name.

SecInfo

http://www.secinfo.com

Search for names under Proxies

BONDS:

Bond & Fixed Income Resource Center

http://e-analytics.com/bonds/bonddir.htm

Articles which give information about various types of bonds and the Federal Reserve Board's functions, including a glossary.

Bonds Online

http://www.bondsonline.com/

A database of currently available bonds with real time quotes for treasury prices and yields. Bonds are searchable by type (municipal, corporate, CMO, zero coupon, and treasury). Site includes a glossary and links to news sources for bond information.

Moody’ s Investor Services

http://www.moodys.com/

Coverage of the past three days' bond rating actions including the daily market wrap up, recent credit research, and current summaries of ratings actions. There is also the “Watchlist”, which lists the names of credits whose Moody's ratings have a likelihood of changing in rated products like ( countries, banks, loans, asset-backed securities (ABS), commercial and residential mortgages, collateralized debt obligations and derivatives market, mutual funds, fixed income funds and insurance companies).

BUSINESS BOOKS

Kipnotes

www.kipnote.com

Kipnotes is one of the largest sites devoted to books about business. The site also has a short history of Wall Street and refers to the major movies related to business and finance

Business Week

http://www.businessweek.com/tocs/busbooks.htm

The Business Week site is invaluable source for reviews of business books arranged by author or title. There is also a ranking of the bestsellers for the pas ten years.

BUSINESS BOOKS CORE COLLECTION

University of Florida Core Collection Business Books

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/businesslibrary/books/books.htm

The Business Books Core Collection of the University of Florida is a comprehensive source about business books. Peter Zachary McKay, who is a business librarian there is the author of the site. He has organized the books by subject, which makes the navigation of the site flawless. The site also has a very nice and comprehensive web

Site, which has listing of “ core collection business books".

ALA's BRASS

http://www.ala.org/BRASSTemplate.cfm?Section=brassprotools

The site also has a list of core competencies as well as a list of web sites
organized by subject here + book (The Basic Business Library: Core Resources
Edited by Rashelle S. Karp ; Bernard S. Schlessinger, associate editor.
c. 2002)

BUSINESS ETHICS

Center for Applied Ethics

www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/business/

Links to business ethics publications, codes of ethics, institutions and organizations.

Net Impact: New Leaders for Better Business( formerly Students for Responsible Business)

http://www.net-impact.org

Includes information on the organization's Leadership, Educational and Professional Programs, as well as recent articles from its newsletter, Leading Business. There are also instructions for joining the group's email list on the site. The case studies can be find under resources on the left side of the screen.

Wharton Ethics Proram

http://ethics.wharton.upenn.edu/

A collection of over a dozen business ethics cases, and links to other business ethics centers and programs. Sponsored by the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research (http://ethics.wharton.upenn.edu/ResearchInterests.htm#ZC), which has information about the center's conferences and publications (including working papers and article reprints), a list of business ethics journals (with links), links to other business ethics research websites, and an overview of current research at the cente

BUSINESS FILLINGS

LLRX

http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup24.htm

Almost all of the states make some level of Corporate and Business filings available online. In a few instances only limited information (such as name availability) is retrievable. The majority of the states, however, use their Web presence to disseminate a range of public business records -- and most of them offer access at no charge.

BUSINESS LIBRARIES

Foster Business Library at University of Washington

http://www.lib.washington.edu/business/abl.html

Columbia University, Business & Economics Library

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/business/

Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Eastwick Library

http://www.library.cornell.edu/jgsm/

London Business School Library

http://www.london.edu/library/

University of Berkeley

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/

University of California, LA Anderson School Rosenfeld Library

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/resources/library/libhome.htm

University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Lippincot Library

http://www.library.upenn.edu/lippincott/

BUSINESS NEWS

BizJournals

http://www.bizjournals.com/

BizJournals is an good source for local business journals. It includes 37 city business journals with full-text articles, both recent and archives. The site is searchable by key word, city, or select from various subject arrangements.

Bloomberg Online

http://www.bloomberg.com/

This site has today's business news, along with current quotations and news items on a wide range of subjects: news, stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies in today’s world financial markets. The News archive goes back to 1995 and it can be searched by news category or company ticker.

Business Wire ( Monthly Retail Reports)

http://www.businesswire.com/

Business Wire includes corporate news, industry and company profiles and the Monthly Business Wire Retail Reports. The news content is searchable by date(weekly), industry, country or state. The Business Wire Retail Reports are under industry specific news. They come out usually the first Thursday of each month and are based on information provided and released by the retailers. This chart tracks each retailer's total sales for the previous month as compared to the same month last year and the percent change; total year-to-date sales for this year as compared to the same period last year, and the percent chang

MoneyCNN

http://money.cnn.com/

Current business and financial news. In addition the site offers the “Money’s Best” lists for mutual funds, autos, places to live, to retire, to vacation.

Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/

Forbes offers variety of information about business, technology and personal finance and investment information There are also overviews of the US and world markets and indexes and the famous Forbes lists about companies, people and places.

Kiplinger

http://kiplinger.com/

The Kiplinger organization developed Kiplinger Online to provide personal finance guidance on the Internet. Users can find selected articles from the current and past three months' issues of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine on topics ranging from investing to retirement planning. The news section highlights consumer, business and financial news. Visitors to the site can compare the rankings of mutual funds (stocks and bonds) by size and return, consult a glossary of 101 financial terms and examine financial planning calculators. Note that certain parts of the site require subscription.

Media General Daily Market Barometer Report

http://www.mgfs.com/mgbarom.htm

The Media General Daily Market Barometer Report summarizes statistically the day's stock market and industry trends from a variety of perspectives. The report is produced by four a.m. each business day and goes back a few days.

Newsalert

http://www.newsalert.com/

Search for news on a company, industry, person, etc. from numerous sources including Business Wire, Pr Newswire, Reuters, and more. The site also offers from unlimited guotes, analysts estimates and broker recommendations, insider trading and institutional data, sec fillings, US and world market data, bond information, IPO calendars, mutual funds screener and full reports earnings and stock split calendars conference calls. Much at this site is free.

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/

Newly redesigned to give readers access to all the business stories from the New York Times, plus regularly updated headlines and market data. Requires free registration. Also included on New York Times site, Tech Times, with news about every species of technology under one banner - daily briefings and updates about the Internet, computers, personal technology, and the business of it all.

PR Newswire

http://www.prnewswire.com/

PR Newswire provides comprehensive news targeting, distribution, and measurement services on behalf of some 40,000 organizations worldwide who seek to reach the news media, the investment community and the general public with their up to the minute, full-text news developments. News are searchable by subject, industry and geographical location. Business news in Europe have are archived back to 1995.

Nikkei Net Interactive

http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/

This site provides news from the Tokyo market, as well as links to historical stock data and Annual Market Trends.

The Red Herring

http://www.redherring.com/

Includes an archive of past issues to 1993. The MSCI-Red Herring Index is a benchmark for investors in technology and communication stocks. It is a global index, and includes stocks traded in emerging markets. It is based on 11 dynamic industries within the areas of telecommunication, software, technology hardware, media, and biotechnology. There is also the list The Red Herring Top Ten Trends predicts the business of emerging technology in its sixth annual top ten trends list.

Yahoo Business News

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=749

Another source of current wire service stories on companies and markets.

BUSINESS PLANS & ENTERPRENEURSHIP

BizPlanIt.com
http://www.bizplanit.com/

Free business plan tips, a step-by-step guide to writing business plans, and an extensive list of business planning links are all available from the "free resources" area.

BizProWeb
http://www.bizproweb.com/

Features links to business planning web sites, newsgroups, and shareware.

Bplans.com
http://www.bplans.com/

Very large collection of sample business plans, marketing and advertising plans.

Entrepreneurial Edge
http://edge.lowe.org/

Use the keyword search to find information from anywhere on this large site, or go directly to the "Insights On" to search a "collection of over 3,000 documents selected from... government agencies, small business consultants, chapters of books from high quality small business publishers and material published by [the Edward Lowe Foundation]." Also available from this site is a list of over 400 Internet sites, arranged by subjects and summarized.

Entre World: Resources for Entrepreneurs

http://www.EntreWorld.org/

The "starting your business" and "growing your business" sections are especially useful. Use the search feature to find discussions, EntreWorld articles, abstracts and links to off-site resources, and events listings. Also includes a glossary of entrepreneurship terms.

Business Journals

http://www.bizjournals.com

American City Business Journals Inc. is the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers (46) for local markets. The Web site provides links to each newspaper's home page, with news, information and commentary from each American City market. You'll find upwards of 1,000 articles, news items, and columns added each week about local business from around the country. In addition there are references to 46 industries with links to news, networking and additional business resources.

BusinessFinance.com

http://www.businessfinance.com/

Anyone who wants to start a business can get in touch with lenders and investors. The site also provides information about methods of seeking different forms of capital in order to operate a business. In addition, it contains a library resources on business education and government information.

Entrepreneur Magazine

http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_FrontDoor/0,4430,,00.html

All the archived full-text articles can be searched from 1991 - present using keywords. . The site ranks the hottest 100 new businesses, 100 best banks for small business, and best cities for small business. There is also a Franchise Opportunity guide, which includes 500 franchises & rankings of the best new, fastest growth, and low investment franchises. A library of free business forms is also available. It also contains tips on legal help such as, assistance with searching for lawyers and help with obtaining documents, etc.

Entre World

http://www.entreworld.org/

Entre World is a another guide for starting and running a businesses. It provides guidance and recommends resources to companies in various stages of their development. It also links users to discussion groups and columns which target entrepreneurs.

EMPLOYMENT/ BENEFITS *(See Salary)

CANADA

Industry Canada

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/

Industry Canada is committed to business. It links to company and industry information, as well as to sources on canada investing and small business loan requirements. Available in French or English.

Canadian Statistics

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/

A portal of statistics about Canada. It includes recent economic statistics, data highlights of news releases, and census data.

Canadian Public Companies

http://www.sedar.com/

Sedar provides annual reports for Canadian companies in English & French. Most reports are in .pdf format, although some are in Microsoft Word or Word Perfect

The Top 1000: Canada's Power Book

http://www.globeinvestor.com/series/top1000/2003/

From the Gglobeinvestor Online comes this 20th edition of the Report on Business Top 1000—your complete guide to corporate performance in Canada last year.

CASE STUDIES / CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Harvard Business School Cases

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/cases/cases_home.jhtml

Search by company name or management concept to find appropriate cases highlighting the latest theories and practices in management education. Access to the catalog is free. Cases cost an average of $5 each.

Brint

http://www.brint.com/

BRINT content and community portals are one of the world's leading resource for business, information, and technology knowledge. The site is a searchable knowledge map of Contemporary Business, Management and Information Technology issues. It provides access to hundreds of full-text papers, magazines & journals, case studies and tools, and thousands of online resources.

Corporate Library

http://www.thecorporatelibrary.com/

Corporate Library is intended to serve as a central repository for research, study, and critical thinking about the nature of the modern global corporation, with a special focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, their boards and their shareowners. Use this site to retrieve CEO compensation packages and employment contracts (publicly traded firms only) as well as Director biographies for the companies in the S&P 1500 Supercomposite Index. Screen on a variety of features to identify matching directors (e.g. company name, age, attendance problems, # shares held, etc.) The site also contains research reports on trends in corporate governance, business news and company information .

Caseplace

http://www.caseplace.org/

This is the place where business school faculty can find hundreds of business case studies and supporting materials that incorporate into business education. CasePlace.org is a free service of the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program (BSP).

CENSUS / Specialized Census cites/

There are number of different economic censuses conducted by the
U.S. Census Bureau. Each has it own 5 year cycle, and its own inherent
time lags between the cutoff date for collecting data, and when the
statistics are released to the public in a useable form:

US Census of Agriculture

http://www.census.gov/econ/www/agrimenu.html

U.S. Census of Construction Industries.
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/const/www/cci/frames.html

U.S. Census of Finance, Insurance, and Real estate Industries.
http://www.census.gov/econ/www/se0100.html

U.S. Census of Governments.
http://www.census.gov/govs/www/index.html

U.S. Census of Manufactures.
http://www.census.gov/econ/www/manumenu.html

U.S. Census of Mineral Industries.
http://www.census.gov/econ/www/mi0100.html

U.S. Census of Retail Trade.
http://www.census.gov/econ/www/retmenu.html

U.S. Census of Service Industries.
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/econ/www/se0200.html

U.S. Census of Transportation, Communications, and Utilities.
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/econ/www/se0400.html

U.S. Census of Wholesale Trade.
http://www.census.gov/econ/www/retmenu.html

CITING RESOURCES

Chicago Style

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html

formerly The Chicago Manual of Style and the Turabian’s Manual for Writers are detailed on this site by the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Writing Center. The site includes guidelines for parenthetical documentation and reference lists as well as style and printing manuals.

Citing Electronic Resources

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

lists the MLA-Style of citing electronic sources including www documents, ftp files, gopher sites, CD-ROM, diskette, and magnetic tapes.

MLA Citation Style

http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/mla.html

is the Cornell Libraries' own summary of bibliographic entries. Includes samples of entries for both print and electronic sources.

CONTINGENCY ANALYSYS ( Risk Management)

http://www.contingencyanalysis.com/

This site provides a broad overview of enterprise risk management and risk measurement, including value at risk, derivative instruments, credit risk management and financial engineering. There is also a collection of research papers on enterprise risk management covering topics such as value at risk, risk visualization, and accuracy vs. precision, as well as an in-depth glossary of 200 risk management terms.

COMMODITIES

Chicago Board of Trade

http://www.cbot.com/

The page gives delayed current day futures and options quotes and historical trading data on active and closed contracts. Market commentaries and recaps of the day's trading are available. There is also web access to live quotes for all of its products for fee.

Chicago Merchantile Exchange

http://www.cme.com/

Chicago Merchantile exchange has four major product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The site provides users with commodity information including trading and new developments. There is a brief explanation of the commodity, option trade, and foreign exchange trade with glossary. Contract specifications by products, prices and charts, performance bond (margin) rates, and a product calendar are also included.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

http://www.cftc.gov/cftc/cftchome.htm

CFTS regulates commodity futures and option markets in the United States. Wide variety of regulatory information, speeches/press releases by members of the commission, and market statistics is provided by the site. The famous Commitments of Traders data. Is released every Friday and contains general background information and detailed explanatory notes for the short form, the long form, and the options-and-futures-combined reports. Archive of the reports is available since 1986.

Ino

http://www.ino.com/

Ino has all the current data and charts on commodities traded on most U.S. exchanges. You can search by keyword or exchange to view trading on active contracts. Puts, calls, and strike prices on options are listed. In addition, weekly, daily, and intraday price charts are available. Registration required.

Turtle Trader

http://turtletrader.com/hpd.html

Provides futures contracts on 23 commodities dating back as 970's. Coverage differs by commodity. Daily open, high, low,close, and volume.The service provides additional data for a fee.

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE /Directory/

CIseek

http://www.bidigital.com/ci/

The site is standard searchable subject index stuff with categories including associations, education, and documentation. There are over 1900 resources available in the directory; most of these are companies.

GOT COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

http://www.llrx.com/features/gotci.ppt

PPT with resources, web sites, directories, news aggregators, web logs, web sources for TV broadcasts and radio transcripts. There are also sources on legal competitive intelligence : who represents who, lateral hiring, attorney biographies, tools for competitive monitoring.

CORPORATE BLOGGING /CEO/

www.llrx.com/features/corporateblogging.ppt

An overview of corporate blogging from one of the experts Sabrina Pacifici (LLRX ).

includes blog facts, resources, blog software, tracking blocks, CEO-who’s blogging.

CEO COMPENSATION

Executive Compensation Database
http://www.ecomponline.com/

Executive Paywatch

http://www.aflcio.org/paywatch/

CITY DIRECTORIES
http://www.uscitydirectories.com

This web site will attempt to identify all printed, microfilmed, and online directories, and their repositories, for the United States...[in order to] answer these questions:
does a directory exist for a locality? If it does, where can it be found?"
Includes examples of directory use and a bibliography.

Business.com

http://companyprofiles.work.com/

Business.com has a directory of unknown number of profiles ( some say around 11 million inherited from Dow Jones/WorkCom ) . Profiles contain contact information, basic sales figures, news and financials. Additional information is available for a fee.

Europages –European Business Directory

http://www.europages.com/home-en.html

Contains contact information on Western and Eastern European companies. Search by company name or product/service. Available in 16 European languages.

Kompass

http://www.kompass.com/kinl/index.html

The Kompass Database contains close to 1.7 million companies. Its searchable by region, company name, executive name, product, product and service and keywords. Basic company information is free, more details are provided for a fee.

CORPORATE CULTURE

Wetfeet

http://www.wetfeet.com/asp/home.asp

WetFeet, Inc. is a recruitment solutions provider that helps leading companies to more effectively attract, hire and retain the right people. Top job candidates rely on WetFeet’s consumer website, as a source for well-balanced information that helps them to make better career decisions. WetFeet also operates the Web’s largest internship community, InternshipPrograms.com.

Vault

http://www.vault.com/index.html

Fortune recently called Vault "The best place on the Web to prepare for a job search." The Internet's ultimate destination for insider company information ( over 3,000 companies and 70 industries); company-specific message boards ( every day, tens of thousands of people visit Vault's expert-moderated message boards to share the latest corporate and career news); professionals "rating " and earning potential, free resume service, job search.

CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS

The Corporate Scandal Sheet - Forbes List
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/07/25/accountingtracker.html

Keeps track of corporate accounting scandals

Top 100 Corporate Criminals

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/top100.html

The site summarizes the criminal charges brought
against the companies. Individuals are not always named, but there is
enough information given so you could easily find the names in other
sources

CONSUMER INFORMATION

Consumer Information Center

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/

The famous Consumer Information Catalog which lists over 200 Federal publications covering topics such as Federal benefits, health, cars, children, housing and money matters. The Catalog and the publications listed can be viewed online or downloaded.

The center also publish Published continuously since 1979, the Consumer Action Handbook with best and most direct source for assistance for consumer problems.

Consumer Line

http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/consumer.htm

The site provided by the Federal Trade Commission offers the full text of more than 140 consumer and business publications. Categories include credit, investments, health and fitness, telemarketing, homes and real estate, products and services, automobiles and buying and working at home. You can also find publications with advice on avoiding scams and rip-offs, as well as tips on other consumer topics.

J D Power & Associates

http://www.jdpower.com/

provides free access to part of its market research online. Contains annual award listings for the automotive, telecommunications, boats, finance, homes, healthcare, and travel industries, and provides access to statistical and descriptive excerpts from its annual consumer studies

Survey of Consumer Finances

http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html

The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is conducted every three years to provide detailed information on the finances of U.S. families. The survey gathers information about the balance sheet, pension, income, and other demographic characteristics of U.S. families. Also included here are the data and related information from the 1962 Survey of Financial Characteristics of Consumers and the 1963 Survey of Changes in Family Finances. These surveys are the most direct precursors of the SCF. Similar information on the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Pension Providers is provided as well.

COUNTRIES

EIU

http://www.viewswire.com/index.asp

The latest analysis on the economic development for any country with a lot of statistical data: economic outlook, forecast, quarterly economic indicators and political structure.

CIA World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Political, economic and social facts and statistics in the following categories: current issues, historical perspective, geography, people (including population with breakdowns by age and sex), government, economy, communications, military, transportation, and transnational issues.

Country Commercial Guides (CCG)
http://www.ita.doc.gov/uscs/ccglist.html

“ Country Commercial Guides (CCG) present a comprehensive look at a particular country's commercial environment including economic, political, and market analysis. Commercial specialists at U.S. embassies prepare the guides annually through a cooperative effort with several U.S. government agencies. The guides consolidate in one document many reports routinely prepared for the U.S. business community."

InfoNation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

Allows users to compile statistical tables, using the most recent data available from 185 UN databases, by selecting up to seven countries (from a list of all UN member states) and up to four data fields (e.g., illiteracy rate, unemployment rate, Gross National Product).

International Statistical Agencies

http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html

The U.S. Census Bureau's links to statistical agencies of countries from around the world, with notes as to the language(s) of the sites.

U.S. State Department: Country Information
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/

Essay-style information on geographic regions and international organizations. Data is updated as deemed necessary, and thus publication dates range from the early 90s to very recent.

Washington Post Country Search

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/worldref/country/country_index.htm

Country research guide from Washington Post. Some of the links, connected with the country profile deserve special attention.

A+Country Reports

http://www.countryreports.org/

A+ Country Reports offers a wealth of information on all of the countries of
the world. Like the CIA's World Factbook, A+ Country Reports presents
up-to-date information on population, geography, economy, history, and

Background Notes on Countries

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/bgn/

Background Notes are updated/revised as they are received from regional bureaus and are added to the database of the Department of State web site. Background Notes is a good source for additional political and economical information on countries, provided with links at the end of the site.

Country Analysis Brief / from Energy Information Administration/

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html

Very useful site from the Energy Information Administration. The focus of information is energy related, but there are extensive links to other economical related information. The site can be used as a getaway to other sources of information.

Library of Congress Country Studies

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

At present, 101 countries and regions are covered. Notable omissions include Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations. The date of information for each country appears on the title page of each country and at the end of each section of text.

NationMaster

http://www.nationmaster.com/

Welcome to NationMaster.com, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.

CONFERENCE CALLS * See Webcast Transcripts

CREDIT CARDS –Statistics

Card Forum

http://www.cardforum.com/staticlist.html?listname=industrydata

Read the latest information from Credit Card Management, ATM&Debit News, and CardLine about electronic payments, credit, debit and smart cards, card issuing, merchant acquiring, collections and recovery, card marketing, retail programs, risk management and security, economics, technology, and international card programs. The site also has free “industry data” and rankings of the top credit card issuers by managed card receivables, charged volume, credit transactions e t c.

CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE REPORTS (CRS)

http://www.usembassy.it/policy/crs.htm ( Embassy)

http://www.house.gov/shays/resources/leginfo/crs.htm (CRS Getaway)

A single publicly available source offering access to CRS reports is not available. The site of the U.S. Embassy in Rome is one of a few sites that does a good job of making the most current version of reports (the ones it collects) available.

ZFacts.com

http://zfacts.com/p/576.html

Using Google technology, provides a searchable interface to locate the 1,000 reports that are available to the public free on the web, hosted by a variety of advocacy sources. Supports keyword search as well as recommends and describes searching by report Order Code.

CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES

OANDA

http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic

OANDA provides currency exchanges for 164 currencies at the Interbank Rate. Can be viewed for any day since January 1, 1990 -through today.

Bank of Japan

http://www.boj.or.jp/en/index.htm

Bank of Japan has the exchange rate against the dollar, monthly, 1973 - present. From the home page, click on "Download." The Exchange Rate Report is all the way at the bottom. Contains public statements, publications, statistics, and releases concerning the Bank of Japan. The exchange data is under the name of “Long-term time-series data”

FRED II

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

FRED provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily and monthly U.S. interest rates, T-bill rates, monetary and business indicators, historical exchange rates for over 30 currencies, and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. Also includes online publications: U.S. Financial Data & National Economics Trends

Financial Times

http://news.ft.com/home/us

FT.com provides the full-text of about 1/3 of the current day's issue of Financial Times. It contains a searchable archive of 30 days. It also provides exchange rates, share prices, company briefings, and leading economic indicator data for several countries.

Pacific Exchange Rate Service

http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/data.html

Pacific Exchange Rate Service provides A minimum of 1 year and a maximum of 20 years of daily exchange rates. Can select among 6 base currencies, although the service recommends using Canada as the base currency. Updated regularly. Published by PACIFIC: Policy Analysis Computing & Information Facility in Commerce; at the University of British Columbia.

DEMOGRAPHICS

American Demographics/Marketing Tools
http://www.demographics.com/

The site publishes the print edition on the web in full-text access. Users are asked to browse the site and to subscribe to the print edition if they want to continue using it. Also contains access to Marketing Tools articles, recent demographic reports, and a bookstore of American Demographics' publications

FedStats

http://www.fedstats.gov/

FedStats provides statistical data generated by many different U.S. Government agencies. Statistics on demographics is also available. There is also data about interest rates, inflation rates, and wages are available as are those on breastfeeding, education, and consumer credit. Key agencies included are BEA, BLS, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Transportation, Bureau of the Census, EIA, OMB, and more.

Infonation

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

Infonation is a statistical service provided by the UN. Includes about 50 demographic, economic, and social indicators for member nations. Does not include time series data, but rather the most recent data published by the UN.

Census: Demographic Trends in the 20th Century
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf

The report analyzes data gathered in 11 censuses stretching from 1900 to 2000. The subjects covered are from the Census 2000 short-form questionnaire. Titled Demographic Trends in the 20th Century and released during the bureau's 100th anniversary year, the report tracks trends in population, housing and household data for the nation, regions and states.

UN Statistics Division

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/

UN Demographic, Social & Housing Statistics ( available on the left side of the website) provides a variety of types of demographic data for all of the countries in the U.N. Some parts of the site are free-based, but several are free.

EASI Quick Reports and Analysis
http://www.easidemographics.com/

Free demographic reports, compiled from 2000 U.S. Census data. Searchable by 11 geographic segments (e.g., cities, zip codes, TV markets) and 11 reports (e.g., education report and analysis, employment, quality of life).

Mediamark Research, Inc.
http://www.mediamark.com/

Though this is primarily a fee-based service, free sample "Top-Line Reports" are available for over 50 industries, including baby products, electronics, snacks, and sports. Additionally, audience surveys are available for magazines, cable, and "cyberstats." Free registration required.

U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

The U.S. Census collects a lot of social, demographic, and economic information, much of which is available on their web site. This is a very large site, so use the site search function or the A-Z subject list to find specific information. Alternately, try the census's American Fact Finder, which has community profiles by state, region, city or metropolitan statistical area, as well as population and housing information.

DISERTATIONS ( PhD)

Dissertation.com

http://www.dissertation.com

Access the most powerful Free-To-Search database of scientific, technical, medical, and other scholarly content. Search through 20 million citations and 10 million abstracts from over 35,000 journals.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/

Here you will be able to freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database. To search the entire database of more than 1.6 million titles, you will need to connect from a subscription institution.

Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available-the rest of the pages is for fee.

DICTIONARY

Wordsmyth

http://www.wordsmyth.net/

Wordsmyth is a premier dictionary-thesaurus tool which offers flexible searching (e.g. you don't need to know the exact spelling of the word you are looking up) and links to related and synonymous terms. The dictionary contains specialized types of words (e.g. scientific or technical words) as well as words standard in English usage

Webster Dictionary

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

Webster Dictionary provides word searchable access to the Webster Miriam dictionary and thesaurus databases

Investopaedia

http://www.investopedia.com/dictionary/

Comprehensive financial encyclopedia on the web, tutorials on nearly ever aspect of the market, weekly educational articles on numerous subjects, and an index of frequently asked investing questions.

DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS / SALES REPRESENTATIVES

MANA

http://www.manaonline.org/html/directory.html

Sales agencies can be searched by one or more of the following criteria: Territory, Agency Location, Product Classification, Customers Served, Services Offered and the popular Keyword feature, which allows you to target your search to a single word within an agent’s entire product description and advertiser paragraph. You can also View the full agency profile, including display ad, by double clicking on a prospect in your search results list. With the agency profile displayed you can connect to their web site

DRUG INDUSTRY

PHMRA

http://www.phrma.org/

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PHMRA) is an association representing about 100 companies dedicated to pharmaceutical research. The site provides in depth statistical coverage of the industry, including industry profile.

E

EARNING ESTIMATES

MultexInvestor

http://www.multexinvestor.com/home.asp

Multex Investor provides estimates and recommendations on stocks culled from hundreds of research firms. The service also provides limited free research reports from sponsoring firms.

TheStreet

http://www.thestreet.com/

The Street provides earnings estimates courtesy of First Call. The Research section gives also historical estimates. Industry growth rates and industry & sector earnings estimates are included in a comparative table.

Zacks Investment Research

http://my.zacks.com/?ALERT=mail.zacks.com

Zacks Investment Research specializes in corporate earnings estimates. This site provides free estimates, but charges for analyst reports.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

World Economic Outlook Databases ( IMF)

/ 1970-present; projections 2 years ahead/

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2002/02/data/index.htm

The World Economic Outlook from IMF staff’ presents analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups. The data sets are

GDP (annual percent change) GDP (values at market exchange rates and purchasing power parity [PPP] exchange rates) Inflation (annual percent change) World Trade Volume, World Exports and World Imports of goods and services.

Economic Indicators / Projections/

Congressional Budget Office

www.cbo.gov

CBO projects indicators, including CPI and GDP to 2008-2012. Additional data includes publications about various topics from agriculture, environment to federal personnel, health, labor and welfare and social services. Budget information national security are priority for thew office.

Bank Rate Monitor (rates)
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/Default.asp

Bank Rate Monitor is a source for consumer bank rates and personal finance. It provides rates for mortgages, home equity loans, savings, new and used auto loans, credit cards and checking accounts. BRM also tracks ATM, checking account, and online banking fees. More than 2,500 institutions are surveyed weekly in 117 markets and all 50 states and the database is updated Monday through Friday nights.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html

This White House site provides access to current Federal economic indicators in employment, income, international money, prices, production and transportation. The data is collected by a number of Federal agencies.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
http://www.bos.frb.org/

"The Boston Fed's Research Department conducts economic research on regional, national, and international issues; performs public-policy analyses of mergers and other bank transactions; and collects and analyzes data on many aspects of the New England economy and banking system." Their "Economic Research" section includes links to national and New England economic indicators and to other Federal Reserve Banks' websites. Full text of the Beige Book, New England Economic Indicators, and many working papers from the Boston FRB are also available.

Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions (Beige Book)
http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/FOMC/BeigeBook/1999/default.htm

"Commonly known as the Beige Book, this report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key businessmen, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector." Available online from 1996 to the current.

Survey of Current Business (BEA)
http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/pubs.htm

A Bureau of Economic Analysis site with a lot of economic data, including historical charts. Issues of the Survey of Current Business, BEA's monthly journal, are available at this site in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format. Here the researcher can find current and historical data about GDP, Personal Income, Corporate Profits, International Investment Data , Balance of Payments, Trading Goods, GDP by industry, Capital Flow, Travel and Tourism, State and Local Personal Income and Gross State Product. Weekly data; latest 6 weeks. Monthly data; latest 13 months. Annual data; latest 6-10 years. Good source for Per Capita Income.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

http://stats.bls.gov/

BLS provides data and information on consumer and producer prices and indices, consumer spending, wages, earnings and benefits, employment and unemployment, productivity and cost, workplace injuries and illness. The site also gives at a glance tables of the economy, states and industries.

CPI- Consumer Price Indexes (BLS)

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

US Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly report on consumer price movement; includes CPI for urban consumers (CPI-U) and CPI for wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W); latest 4 months in each issue. Good source for Inflation Rate.

Monthly Labor Review (BLS)

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publication. Monthly data: latest 12-13 months; Annual data: latest 9 years. Good source for the unemployment rate

PPI-Producer Price Indexes-(BLS)

http://www.bls.gov/ppi/

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly report on producer price movement; latest 2 months in each issue; and annual supplement contains monthly data for calendar year, annual averages, and information on weights. Best source for the Producer Price Index

Economic Report of the President (viaGPO)

http://www.access.gpo.gov/eop

The first part contains a narrative analysis of economic issues and conditions. The latter contains over 100 statistical tables which track the most important economic indicators. Each offers monthly or quarterly data for the previous two or three years together with over 20 years of annual data.

Federal Reserve Board

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/

Weekly data: latest 5 weeks; Monthly data: latest 4 months; Quarterly data: latest 5 quarters; Annual data: latest 3 years. Good source for Prime Rate, Discount Rate, and Mortgage Rates, Interest Rates, Exchange Rates, Industrial Production & Capacity, Consumer Credit. e.t.c.

Statistical Abstract of the United States

http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html

U.S. Bureau of the Census annual data for the latest 10-40 years. Good source for Inflation Rate and Per Capita Income.

The Conference Board ( US Composite Indexes)

http://www.conference-board.org/

Offers the latest information, data, and analysis on the Board's Consumer Confidence Index and Index of Leading Economic Indicators. ( US Composite Indexes). Also included are the Board's conference agendas, information about its executive council program, and reports on human resources/organizational effectiveness, business and education, international economics, and more. Individual Series may be downloaded at US $15 per series for U.S. business cycle indicators, and US $25 per series for all other countries

National Bureau of Economic Research !

http://www.nber.org/releases/

EMERGING MARKETS

BradyNet

http://www.bradynet.com/

BradyNet provides an introduction to Brady Bonds and their analysis, current Brady Bond prices, Local Market analysis and research, Emerging Markets credit ratings by Duff & Phelps, and news stories on the original Brady Bond countries

The Emerging Markets Companion

http://www.emgmkts.com/

If you click table of contents you will have access to news and data on the emerging markets, Brady Bond data, exchange rates, new issues, regional outlooks and forecasts, country profiles, weekly newsletters, and index prices as well as a history of emerging markets investing. Access Bloomberg business wires, Bridge wires, and more.

ISI Emerging Markets (Internet Securities)

http://www.securities.com/

Provides news, company and industry data, financial and economic analysis, and legal and current affairs 30 emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia

Euromoney

http://www.euromoney.com/

provides full-text articles from recent issues of Euromoney, Euroweek, Corporate Finance, Global Investor, Project & Trade Finance Newsletter. It also contains a data section which contains bondware tables, country risk surveys, and emerging markets bank ratings. Search for articles by keyword or category. Access to some parts of the site is restricted to registered users; registration is free.

MbendiAfropaedia

http://www.mbendi.co.za/

MbendiAfropaedia provides overviews of African countries, industries, and major companies. Also, it links to stock exchanges and directories of product/services, conferences, and current projects.

StatUSA

http://www.stat-usa.gov/

StatUSA is the Internet source for business and economic information produced by the Federal Government. STAT-USA gathers information from over 50 Federal agencies and distributes from a central source. STAT-USA includes U.S. economic data & release calendars, exchange rates, industrial data, and consumer credit reports. Its international side includes trade opportunity leads, international industry, market analysis, imports, exports, and guides for U.S. companies doing business in different countries.

World Class Stock by Country

http://web.idirect.com/~tiger/stockcou.htm

World Class Stock by Country provides links to the exchanges of many emerging and industrialized countries worldwide. It also contains links under its World & U.S. Stocks Group section, to a variety of finance-related sites.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

EIU

http://www.economist.com/businessdatabase/

From the EIU the site offers dictionary with definitions of more than 5,000 international business terms, abbreviations and acronyms; 144 profiles of the most influential and controversial business writers, entrepreneurs and managers and over 200 comprehensive guides addressing everyday business challenges in finance, marketing, personnel and e-commerce. There is also a very useful economics dictionary under “research tools”

ENERGY

Energy Administration Information (EIA)

http://www.eia.doe.gov/

The comprehensive EIA site offers variety of industry status reports and data. Consumption, prices, and energy use forecasts are included. Data from the Annual Energy Review is available 1949 - present. Contains links to a variety of other web energy resources.

EUROPE

Companies Online

http://www.companies-house.gov.uk/

The organization with which UK public companies must file- approximate equivalent to the SEC in the US.

Hemscott Guide to Companies ( Britain)

http://www.hemscott.com/EQUITIES/

Iincludes financial information on publicly traded British companies. The information includes 5 Yr Summary P&L with Balance Sheet, Daily Share Price, Brokers' Consensus, Shareprice Graph, Advisers, Directors, Major Shareholders, Registrars, Contact Details, and Key Dates. Registration is required.

Euromoney

http://www.euromoney.com/

Full text search, and data on countries and markets. Content is free, but you are asked to register to use the service.

Europages

http://www.europages.com/

500,000 companies selected in 33 European countries available in 33 languages. One can search for companies by industry and geography. Also has statistical and textual information on European industry sectors.

Guide to Western Europe and the European Union

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/westoid.html#Euro

From the Lehman Library at Columbia University. This is a selective guide to resources at Columbia University and on the internet, for conducting research on Western Europe and the European Union

Maastrich Treaty Online

http://europa.eu.int/en/record/mt/top.html

European Case Clearing House

http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/FUL074.html

The European Case Clearing House maintains three separate collections of case materials:- 1. Harvard Business School (HBS) 2. University of Western Ontario (UWO) and 3. The European Case Clearing House (ECCH). Collectively these represent over 10,000 items and include case studies, videos, technical notes, industry notes, case software and course modules.

EUROPEAN UNION STATISTICS

Eurostat

http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/

Eurostat publishes around 140 news releases every year in connection with the release of new data. The news releases are issued at 12 noon CET on the web. They include key figures on EU15 and Euro-zone, the Member States and their partners. They are provided free of charge. They have a lot of free data as well as links to other statistic

EUROPEAN LEGAL DATABASES (Guide)

LLRX

http://www.llrx.com/features/europenew.htm

The Guide offers recommendations for search engines and search tips/strategies for researching foreign law topics. Visitors will find the annotated list of European Websites useful for finding constitutional, copyright, and environmental laws (many laws listed by country). Also referenced in the Guide are sites covering the laws of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Council of Europe, and the European Union. A section entitled Indices, Guides, Journals, Dictionaries, Library Catalogs covers consolidated resource guides and notable collections, to facilitate further research

EXPERTS

Expert Pages

http://www.expertpages.com/

Locate an expert witness or consultant at ExpertPages.com, Free. We link attorneys, law firms and legal professionals to thousands of leading experts in 300+ expert witness and forensic topics. Free.

Exporters US Directory

http://www.cnewsusa.com/

Commercial News USA is a The site is designed to assist importers around the world in their efforts to find the American products or services they would like to buy.

FINANCE RESOURCES See *Investing

Stock Research Sites on the Web
http://depts.washington.edu/balib/stocksites/

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/

A database from the U.S. government which archives SEC filings from 1994-current, searchable by company, SEC form, and year (i.e., Ford's 1996 10Qs), or by keyword. Specialized searches such as those for mutual funds are also available.

Zacks Investment Research: Free Research Center
http://www1.zacks.com/free.html

Searchable by ticker symbol. Company profiles, earnings information (including some estimates), balance sheets and more. Site also includes a glossary of financial terms, company news, and more.

IPO Central
http://www.ipocentral.com/

IPO Central helps users get information about US companies that have gone public or filed to go public. This service links the user to a subset of Company Capsules from the Hoover's Online site and to IPO-related filings from EDGAR Online. Companies covered include those that initially filed with the SEC on or after May 6, 1996, the first day that all US companies were required to file electronically." Users can search companies by name, ticker symbol, industry, state or metro area, and underwriter.

IPO Data Systems
http://www.ipodata.com/

Company profiles searchable by ticker, company name, business description, or manager name. This site is organized in the categories new filings, new offerings, upcoming IPOs, and reports. The reports section includes information on withdrawn IPOs, IPOs by state, IPO industry breakdown, and more. The "week in review" section is particularly helpful for keeping up to date with IPO information

FINANCIAL HISTORY

Museum of Financial History

http://www.financialhistory.org/

The Museum of American Financial History, the nation's only independent public museum dedicated to celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and the democratic free market tradition which has made New York City the financial capital of the world. Founded in 1988, the Museum was chartered as an educational institution. Fifteen years later, financial education is at the core of the Museum’s mission and its public programs and services (212) 908-4519 fax: (212) 908-4601 Call for difficult questions )

FORECASTING

The Financial Forecast Center

http://www.forecasts.org

This mega site has extensive information raging from forecasting to historical charts. The center forecasts stock indexies, money rates, exchange rates, economic indicators. The extended forecasts are by subscription.

Survey of Professional Forecasters
http://www.phil.frb.org/page.asp?page=proforecasting

"A quarterly survey of macroeconomic forecasts in the United States. Survey is conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Surveys include median and inflation (1 year, 1-10 years) forecasts." Includes short and long term inflation forecasts, and historical data as far back as the 1960s.

FOREIGN COUNTRIES INVESTMENT SITES

Australia:

http://www.stockhouse.com.au/
Canada:

http://www.sedar.com/

Japan:

http://www.jetro.go.jp/
UK:

http://www.hemscott.co.uk/equities/index.htm
http://216.64.208.39/public/
http://www.ukcompanyresearcher.com/
http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk

Europe:

http://amadeus2.bvdep.com/
http://www.ebr.org/

Worldwide:

http://www.corporateinformation.com/
http://www.bizlinkage.com/cgi-bin/scribe.cgi/index2.htm
http://www.global-reports.com/grapp/index.jsp
http://www.kompass.com/

http://www.skyminder.com/

Far East:

http://www.capitaline.com/

FORMER EMPLOYEE DATABASE

Eeliyon Networking

http://networking5.eliyon.com/Networking/

This web site tracks former employees of companies. Currently there are 17 899 226 former employees in the database. Premium services are offered for fee.

FLEET

Automotive Fleet

http://www.fleet-central.com/af/reso.cfm

Describes the largest fleets in 10 industry segments

G

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION & STATISTICS

See LAW & GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS RESEARCH

How a Bill Becomes Law ( Interactive Map)

http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/form/cong/h_law.html

http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/sst/pol/guide/congress/def-testimony.html

Step-by-step of the process by which a bill becomes a law, noting the pitfalls and politics involved. Includes definitions of U S Code; Code of Federal Regulations etc as well as research in printed or microfiche congressional information resources. For further reference refer to the left site of the page or use the guide from University of Arizona Library, which also includes tips for Lexis Nexis Research.

WashLaw

http://www.washlaw.edu/

Comprehensive topical index to site links in various areas of the law. Extremely useful for general reference.

FedStats

http://www.fedstats.gov/

FedStats provides statistical data generated by many different U.S. Government agencies. Statistics on interest rates, inflation rates, and wages are available as are those on breast-feeding, education, and consumer credit. Key agencies included are BEA, BLS, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Transportation, Bureau of the Census, EIA, OMB, and more.

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

http://www.eia.doe.gov/

EIA provides a variety of industry status reports and data under tits subject index. Consumption, prices, energy use forecasts, Annual Energy Review (1949 – 1996) and Monthly Energy Review are included. Contains links to a variety of other web energy resources.

FRED

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

Under categories in the FRED web site one can find historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily and monthly U.S. interest rates, T-bill rates, monetary and business indicators, historical exchange rates for over 30 currencies, exports, imports, productivity cost, and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. Also includes online publications: U.S. Financial Data & National Economics Trends.

GPO-Access

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html

The newly indexed GPO site provides access to a wide variety of sources, including US Constitution, Code of Federal regulations, MEDLINE, and the Federal Agency Website Directory.

Governments on the WWW

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/world.html

The site is a compendia of sources with links to national institutions, embassies, encyclopedia outlooks, political, tourist and human right information. An excellent start for research on countries, governments and their national institutions.

Government Directory

http://www.searchgov.com/

Searchgov lists all the US government agencies: executive, independent and local.

Thomas

http://thomas.loc.gov/

THOMAS is a major site for legal research: bills summary, text of Congressional Record, Senate and House Committee reports including Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

Census

http://www.census.gov/

The Census is the most authoritative site for statistical data on the web.

GEOGRAPHIC NAMES

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/

Structured vocabulary containing more than one million names and other information about places. The TGN includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and administrative entities, such as cities and nations. The emphasis in TGN is on places that are important . Search by Name, Place Type, or Nation.

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

FedBizopps

http://www.fedbizopps.gov/

Newsletter published every business day by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Makes public, as required by law, any federal contract for the purchase of goods and services over $25,000. Formerly called Commerce Business Daily. You can search it every day or set up a automatic search with results sent to you. Here Government buyers are able to publicize their business opportunities by posting information directly to FedBizOpps via the Internet. Through one portal - FedBizOpps (FBO) - commercial vendors seeking Federal markets for their products and services can search, monitor and retrieve opportunities solicited by the entire Federal contracting community.

HEDGE FUNDS

Baker Library Guide to Hedge Funds

http://library.hbs.edu/guides/hedgefunds/

This guide has been prepared for the HBS community by Baker Library staff to support a academic and career research on hedge funds and the hedge fund industry. The site offers description of hedge fund industry and variety of sources: books, magazine articles and web sites.

Hedge Fund Association

http://www.thehfa.org/

Hedge Fund Association is an international not-for-profit association of hedge fund managers, service providers, and investors formed to unite the hedge fund industry and add to the increasing awareness of the advantages and opportunities in hedge funds: articles, description and links to resources relevant to HF managers.

Magnum Funds

http://www.magnumfund.com/

This site has hedge fund descriptions, articles, hedge fund performances, conference schedule and links to other useful sites.

Hedge Fund Research

http://www.hfr.com/index.php

Maintains an internal database of 2500 hedge funds ( US and International), monthly and daily performance indices. Publishes Money Manager Directory, which is entirely hedge funds. Also publishes a quarterly journal. For Fee

Managed Fund Association

http://www.mfainfo.org/

The Association for Investment Professionals in Futures, Hedge Funds and other alternative investments. There is a special section on hedge funds: legal research, government reports and academic and industry papers.

HEALTH STATISTICS

National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

National Center for Health Statistics includes an overview of major data collection activities, arranged in alphabetical index. The site links to additional sources of health information and provides a way for you to do an electronic query for specific questions.

HISTORICAL FINANCIAL DATA

Global Financial Data

http://www.globalfindata.com/

The site claims to be one of the foremost providers of long-term historical financial data by offering a database of over 6,500 historical and current data series at a price most institutions and companies can afford. The collection data covers over 150 countries. Single files of data are also available for moderate fee.

Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research

http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/

The site is the newest project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to provide valuable economic information and statistics. The site is the latest project of FRED. Here you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe^® Acrobat^® PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents. Some of the information comes from FRED

HOSPITAL DIRECTORY

Hospital Directory

http://www.ahd.com/

American Hospital Directory can be searched for “free “ by geographic location, name, area code, etc. for a list of hospitals that meet your criteria. Information on hospitals includes type of ownership, number of beds (total and by service), financial data, utilization statistics, and charges for specific services. Fee

HUMAN RESOURCES

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/cahrs/

Center for Advance Human Resources Study at Cornell University publishes its esteemed working paper series online. PDF versions of all working papers published by CAHRS are available back to 1993. Recent topics include: organizational agility, human resource impacts on e-commerce, HR in the telecommunications industry, unions in entrepreneurial firms, executive turnover in IPO firms, and more.

Workindex

http://workindex.com/

Workindex is a meta site for human resources, labor law, training and development, and other sites that focus on the workplace.

INCOME & TAX STATISTICS

IRS

http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/index.html

Produced by the Statistics of Income Division and other areas of the Internal Revenue Service the site has general overview data and statistics by form and topic.

Melissa Data

http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/TaxZip.asp

Income tax information by ZIP Code. Includes average AGI, number of returns, average refund, filing status, age and more.

US Tax Code

http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html

The site has has the full-text of the Internal Revenue Code in searchable form with links for many of the cross-references. Each is based on an old version of the U.S. Code, perhaps more than a year in the past, so consult an official copy for confirmation.

The Government Performance Project:

The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report
http://www.governing.com/gpp/2003/gp3intro.htm

This report from Congressional Quarterly's Governing
magazine analyzes "the tax structures and tax management of
the 50 states" and evaluates "the way each state raises its
revenues." It includes an overview of major sources of state
revenue (sales taxes, personal income taxes, property taxes,
and corporate taxes) and features a description of the tax
structure for each state. Also provides related reports back
to 1999.

INDEXES

Dow Jones Interactive

http://www.djindexes.com/jsp/index.jsp

Dow Jones Averages provides daily or annual data from 1896 - present. The Data is under indices/ averages. Users may only bring up one day's worth of data at a time (annual data is available for the complete history in spreadsheet format). Contains charts spanning a decade at a time, with notes indicating the major events that triggered fluctuations in the Dow. This site also provides a description of the Industrial index and background on its composition and calculation, and does the same for the Transportation Utility indexes, including historical charts.( The data is under indices/averages too)

FT.com

http://news.ft.com/home/us

FT.com provides recent prices on the FTSE 100, the FTSE Eurotrack 200, the DAX, CAC-40, Nikkei, and Dow Jones Industrial Average. It contains global information from countries including Japan, U.K., Europe, Asia-Pacific, The Americas, etc. Registration is required to access these files; (it is free ; data under market data & tools)

Multex

http://www.multexinvestor.com/home.asp

Multex provides company snapshots, free real-time stock (and major U.S. index) quotes, price charts, and articles from PRN and BW newswire services. It also provides user with stock screening tools and industry, sector, and company rankings (biggest movers) on over 10,000 equities trading on the NYSE, Nasdaq, AMEX, and OTC Bulletin Board. Detailed financials & ratios are available. Contains First Call earnings estimates and surprises

Nikkei Net

http://www.nikkei.co.jp/enews/announce.html

provides daily historical Nikkei 225 averages and volume in graph format only (current day numerical figure is given. Description and history of the Nikkei, as well as methodology of calculation is given. Click on the "Markets" button at the top of the page. Posts daily NYSE exchange volume back to 1888, daily closing prices for Composite, Industrial, Financial, Transportation, and Utility Indices back to 1966, monthly NYSE total and common # of shares outstanding, market value, issues, and listed companies, 1994-present, monthly market cap by symbol 1999-present, monthly share volume by symbol Oct. 1998-present, year-to-date share volume by symbol, 1997-present.

NYSE

http://www.nyse.com

NYSE posts daily exchange volume back to 1888, daily closing prices for Composite, Industrial, Financial, Transportation, and Utility Indices back to 1966, monthly NYSE total and common # of shares outstanding, market value, issues, and listed companies, 1994-present, monthly market cap by symbol 1999-present, monthly share volume by symbol Oct. 1998-present, year-to-date share volume by symbol, 1997-present. ( Data is under Data Library)

INDUSTRY

For additional information on specific industries see the Useful Metasites category*

Associations on the Net
http://www.ipl.org/ref/AON

A collection of over 1,100 association and organization Internet sites. The sites are grouped by categories such as business, industry, and labor. Each category is searchable. Contents include links to and descriptions of associations. Especially useful for finding trade associations for specific industries.

Industry Research Desk
http://www.virtualpet.com/industry/rdindex2.htm

A great source for help finding industry information on the Internet. Its most useful features are links to sources for industry data, links to key sites for more than 50 industries, and links to manufacturing processes information.

Industry Resources Reports ( from Valuation resources)
http://valuationresources.com/IndustryReport.htm

Industry Resources Reports list resources available from trade associations, industry publications, and research firms which address subjects such as industry overview, issues, trends, and outlook, financial benchmarking, compensation surveys, and valuation resources. Reports are available in SIC codes for more than 220 industries listed below.

International Trade Association

http://www.ita.doc.gov/SmapFrameset.html

The site is extremely useful for both domestic and international information on
industries with specific focus on individual countries/regions. Look for country info first and the industry links within the country Other supporting information for Human Resources, Labor Studies, and Government Policy can also be easily tapped from this page. / Click site map for better navigation/

Industry Research * see CENSUS / Specialized Census cites

Industry Webliography

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/bus/biznews.html#Indu

From Louisiana State's this collection of various industry sources is international in scope and arranged alphabetically by title.

U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/outlook/chapters.html

A single-source, industry-by-industry overview of the U.S. economy. The print edition is ceased, a web project is developing.

NAICS sector breakdown of the US economy / 1997-2002/

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/industry_sector/tables_naics.htm

These tables have been prepared using statistics from the Annual Survey of Manufactures published by the Census Bureau. The data are presented according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS),.

SIC sector breakdown of the US economy / 1987-1997/

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/industry_sector/tables.htm

The product data are for 1987 through 1996, 1997 product data on a SIC basis are not available.

Current Industrial Reports / Statistics mainly /
http://www.census.gov/cir/www/index.html

Current Industrial Report (CIR) program has been providing monthly, quarterly, and annual measures of industrial activity. The primary objective of the CIR program is to produce timely, accurate statistical data on production and shipments of selected products.

U.S. Business Reporter
http://www.activemedia-guide.com/industry_profile_cp.htm

For a nominal fee there is plenty of industry information. One of the downsizes: the reports are old and the database is not thorough.

Industry Analyst Aggregation Site

http://www.industryanalystreporter.com/

Anyway, Tekrati is now offering the Industry Analyst Report, which
contains news and reports from over 325 technology analyst research firms worldwide. And hey, there's an RSS feed The front page contains the latest news from analysts along with a calendar of events. On the left there's a list of categories for news, including Applications & Software, Consumer, and Security. Pick a topic and you'll get a list of summaries for what looks like the last 30 days' worth of news in that category, along with a pointer to 90-day archives. Each summary points to
a more complete overview of the story/report, and a pointer to the analyst Web site. The site is also keyword searchable

INSURANCE

Insurance Statistics

http://www.iii.org/media/facts/

The Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) compiles the latest facts and statistics relating to the insurance industry.

Insurance Portal

http://www.isn-inc.com/html/insurance_express.html

The Insurance portal offers worldwide insurance country information, links, articles, and a portal with the most important sites.

American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) Fact Book

http://www.acli.com/ACLI/About+ACLI+nonmember/Industry+Facts/Life+Insurers+Fact+Book+2003.htm

From theAmerican Council of Life Insurers (ACLI): Life Insurers Fact Book 2003 is now available online. Trends and statistics for the life insurance industry are covered, including assets, liabilities, income, and expenditures, as well as reinsurance, life insurance, and annuity markets.

Insure

http://www.insure.com/

The site is flush with useful features. There's a life insurance and annuity tax calculator that tells you what the tax implications will be should you decide to surrender or exchange a policy. There are some 3,000 articles like "Ten Ways to Save Money on Life Insurance." You'll also get quotes from 92 life insurers. A real stand-out feature, however, is that Insure can provide competitive and customized quotes for people with specific health concerns such as diabetes, asthma, or heart disease. It also give quotes for those involved in risky hobbies, like scuba diving and flying. Least but not last the site offers Standard & Poors new online information service that makes more than 2,500 insurance claims-paying ability ratings available to insurance professionals. ( Search for ratings to get the index of the site*)

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PORTAL

Global Edge

http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp

From Michigan State University, this free site provides more than 2,000 business-related data resources on 200 countries, in areas that include "business climate, news,

history, political structure, economic landscape, and relevant statistical data." Users may view information by specific country or region, or via a keyword search. The site offers an extensive library of government and business-sponsored links, as well as detailed country maps, and news feeds (daily and archived) that may be browsed by date(s) or keywords. A special table allows comparison of up to in different categories ( GDP, GDP per capita)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Asian Development Bank
http://www.adb.org

Economic and social statistics, news items, historical information on the Bank, and links to other international organizations' and ADB member governments' sites.

European Union
http://www.europa.eu.int/index-en.htm

News, information on the Euro, official documents and more.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
http://www.imf.org/

IMF working papers, Staff Country Reports and Papers on Policy Analysis & Assessment are all available here in full text. News, fund rates, and information about the organization are also available. The easiest way to navigate this site is to use the site map.

Northwestern University's International Organizations List
http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html

A comprehensive list of over 100 international organizations' web sites. Links are arranged alphabetically by the name of the organization. Entries for some large organizations include a hierarchical breakdown with links to sub-organizations (i.e., there is a link to UNICEF under the United Nations). Major subagencies may also be included in the main list (i.e., the International Finance Corporation is listed both alphabetically and under the World Bank).

Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/

Numerous statistics on the OECD's 29 member countries, historical information on the organization, current news stories, press releases, and other documents.

United Nations
http://www.un.org/

For links to individual UN programs such as UNESCO, see the UN System of Organizations. The UN produces and collects huge amounts of both topical and country-specific data and statistics. Use the site search option, or go to the UN System Pathfinder to locate UN publications by topic.

World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/

Historical information on the Bank, news coverage, publication lists, and country and regional information.

INTEREST RATES

FRED II

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

Fred II provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily and monthly U.S. interest rates, T-bill rates, monetary and business indicators, historical exchange rates for over 30 currencies, and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. To save data in a format readable by Excel, go to the File menu select "Save As," and change "Save As Type" to Plain text (*.txt). Then bring the data into Excel as space delimited text.

Monthly Libor Rates / Mortgage Rates

http://www.hsh.com/indices/libor00s.html

HSH & Associates provides monthly LIBOR rates, 1991-present. There is also up-to-date mortgage rate info from about 2,000 lenders across the USA. Other surveys collect data for new/used auto loans, home equity product, and other consumer/installment loans.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH

Business in Asia

http://business-in-asia.com/

Business in Asia is a service of Runckel & Associates, a U.S. based international business consulting firm specializing in helping U.S. and Asian companies open new markets, expand sales and develop business relationships.

Ciber

http://ciber.msu.edu/

Ciber is Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research. It contains a searchable database of internet links on the topic of international business.

Ciber at Purdue University

http://ciber.centers.purdue.edu/

Ciber at Purdue University is the mother site of the 27 CIBER sites. It also has a list of links for international business and publishes paper results in the field of international business. The CIBER program links the manpower and information needs of U.S. business with the international education, language training, and research capacities of universities across the U.S. Thirty universities were designated as centers that serve as regional and national resources to business, students, and academics. Together, the CIBERs form a powerful network focused on improving American competitiveness and providing comprehensive service and programs that help U.S. business succeed in global markets

The Euro-Key Internet Web sites

http://www.eurunion.org/infores/euroweb.htm

The Euro-Key Internet Web sites is a list, posted by the European Union, of sites which provide statistics, legislation, history, government activities and press releases. Many of the sites are maintained by the European Union, however the page also links to independent sites.

Euro Money

http://www.euromoney.com/

Euro Money provides full-text articles from recent issues of Euromoney, Euroweek, Corporate Finance, Global Investor, Project & Trade Finance Newsletter. It also contains a data section which contains bondware tables, country risk surveys, and emerging markets bank ratings. Search for articles by keyword or category. Access to some parts of the site is restricted to registered users; registration is free.

FT.com

http://news.ft.com/home/us

IMF Staff Country Reports in Full Text

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/scr.cfm

IMF Staff Country Reports are statistical reports covering IMF member countries. Coverage is 1997 - present. Data is extensive in fiscal and economic areas and textual analysis of country economic developments is sometimes available. The IMF main site also provides access to quarterly and weekly reports, as well as working papers, on the IMF's efforts and the status of the global economy.

International Business & Technology: World

http://www.brint.com/International.htm

International Business & Technology is a meta-index that links to U.S. and international e-journals & newspapers, T.V. and radio sites, technology-related sites, banks, currency sites, and market information

Latin American Information Center

http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Lanic is organized by country and by subject. Click on the business category to lead users to sites that deal with commerce, news, periodicals, and finance

Library of Congress Research Division- Country Studies Series

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html#toc

The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. The country research reports which provide extensive country histories, and overviews of each country's population, culture, education, health, welfare, economy, politics, and military. Note: These reports are not updated regularly and in many cases are a few years old

Mbendi

http://www.mbendi.co.za/

Mbendi provides overviews of African countries, industries, and major companies. Also, it links to stock exchanges and directories of product/services, conferences, and current projects

INTRANET & INTERNET

Search Tools

http://www.searchtools.com/

This site provides information, news and advice about web site searching technology, we do not accept advertising or sponsorships. It is maintained by Search Tools Consulting as a service to the Web community

INTERNET INDUSTRY

CIO-ONLINE

http://64.28.79.79/resources/

Cio-Online is a web site for senior level IT and business professionals. It provides in-depth articles and research reports on IT issues, including year 2000, web-related issues, electronic commerce, data warehousing, outsourcing, events calendar, papers and latest books. It includes the full-text of CIO's articles from 1994 to the present.

E-Commerce

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/

E-Commerce publishes current news for the internet industry. Known for its regular industry news updates (every 15 minutes).

Electronics Commerce Research Laboratory ( Vanderbilt University)

http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/

The Electronics Commerce Research Laboratory is a corporate-sponsored research center at Vanderbilt University devoted to the study of strategic, consumer behavior, and policy issues related to electronic commerce. Recent report topics include the digital divide, online advertising pricing models, and consumer contro in the online environment. E-lab publishes its research findings full text on this s

E-Business Forum

http://www.ebusinessforum.com/

E-Pay News

http://www.epaynews.com/

E-Pay News publishes articles, white papers, and statistics on the electronic payment industry, which has been spurred by the growth in e-commerce

Internet Indicators

http://www.internetindicators.com/

The Internet Economy Indicators(TM) --derived from analysis of four "layers" of the internet economy: infrastructure; application; intermediary/market maker; and commerce, are the tools necessary to track and understand the rapidly expanding internet economy. They are designed to quantify the sales volume and employment in various groups of Internet-related products and services.

Red Herring

http://www.redherring.com/

Red Herring provides business information for the technology industries

INTERNET STATISTICS

NUA Internet Surveys
http://.nua.ie/surveys

Nua Internet Surveys has been publishing for four years and is renowned for its ability to monitor, discuss and analyse key events on the Internet

Pew Internet
http://www.pewinternet.org/

Welcome to the Pew Internet & American Life Project data page. This page contains links to the Project's survey datasets that are currently available on the web. Survey data are generally released no earlier than six months after the project has issued a report about the survey

Cyberatlas
http://www.cyberatlas.com/

The World's Leading Resource for Internet Trends & Internet Statistics. The data is under Stats Toolbox.

INVESTING See also Financial Resources

Bank Rate

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/default.asp

Bank Rate provides current average rates on: loans, mortgages, and savings deposits, as well as the discount rate, prime rate, and some treasury rates. Also contains a loan payment calculator.

Virtual Finance Library

http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/cern/cerninv.htm

Virtual Finance Library is a meta site providing information for the Investor, ranging from mutual fund information, to brokerage firms, to stock and quote information

FinanceWise

http://www.financewise.com/public/unreg.htm

A search engine specifically designed for finance information.

http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/DB_Search/db_search.cgi?setup_file=finance.setup.cgi

This page points to financial and economic data available on the Web and elsewhere. From the Department of Finance at Ohio State University.

FinWeb

http://www.finweb.com/

The objective of FINWeb is to list Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics. The site provides substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics.

National Corporate Services

http://www.natcorp.com/framedirectory.html

An excellent collection of free research links

Invest Tools

http://www.investools.com/

Invest Tools provides users with information on companies such as stock quotes and news, IPO reports and data, mutual funds, international stocks, earnings estimates, and close-end funds. Users must type in company ticker symbol and registration is FREE

Kipinger Online

http://www.kiplinger.com/

Kiplinger provides users with information on business forecast, personal finance, stock quotes, top funds, yields and rates, and retirement advice. It also includes information on savings and investing, fund-raisings, and allowances for kids.

Multex Investor

http://www.multexinvestor.com/home.asp

Multex Investor provides company snapshots, free real-time stock (and major U.S. index) quotes, price charts, and articles from PRN and BW newswire services. It contains company financial statements, ratio analysis, and executive biographies and compensation packages. Its Netscreen feature allows users to find companies meeting user-specified criteria. Contains Multex earnings estimates and surprises. Data is available on over 10,000 equities trading on the NYSE, Nasdaq, AMEX, and OTC Bulletin Board.

The Street

http://www.thestreet.com/

The Street provides current market wire stories as well as personal finance advice, company profiles and stock data, and rankings of research analysts by industry. Under

“ Latest Stories” sometimes there is a site with most of the economic indicators and the sources that they come from.

Wall Street Research Net

http://www.wsrn.com/

Wall Sreet Research Net provides analysis of companies, markets, and mutual funds. It provides stock screening or direct company searching, and contains a large amount of information for the resulting companies. SEC filings, home pages, news, earnings estimates (Zachs), stock history, profiles, industry comparisons, and research reports available. Also contains IPO information, including calendars and aftermarket performance.

Yahoo Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Finance provides a wealth of investment information, including: Zach's earnings estimates earning; splits calendars; upgrades/downgrades; earnings surprise mutual fund information; cross currency rates, articles from investment e-journals latest marked new stories, industry research and rankings by analyst

recommendations, market capitalization and earnings growth and much more.

Company information; competitors, SEC fillings, industry, analyst opinion, inside trading e t c .

Zacks

http://www.zacks.com/?ALERT=my.zacks.com

Zacks specializes in corporate earnings estimates. This site provides free estimates, but charges for analyst reports.

PriceWater House National Venture Capital Study

http://www.pwcmoneytree.com/moneytree/index.jsp

The Price Waterhouse Survey Research Center contacts more than 1,000 venture capital firms to gather data on each firm's investments during the prior quarter. The information collected and analyzed by Price Waterhouse includes investment by sector (for example, software, hardware & peripherals, semiconductors & equipment, and biotechnology & medical instrumentation), the investment round, total amount of the round and the co-investors."

FinancialWeb
http://www.financialweb.com/

Stock quotes, charts, and numerous trademarked services.

Invest-o-rama!
http://investorama.com/director.html

Links to over 11,000 financial resource websites. Get quotes, charts, news, and more.

Market Guide Investment Center
http://marketguide.com/

Free company reports; quotes; price charts; stock screening tools; newswires; and industry, sector, and company rankings on over 12,000 equities.

Stock Research Sites on the Web
http://depts.washington.edu/balib/stocksites/

There are a plethora of websites that offer information about stocks, but which one should you use to find the information you need? Compare them using this database, or screen for sites that match specific criteria (e.g., Company History, P/E Ratios, Betas). "This site contains evaluations of free stock research sites on the Web. There has been no attempt to apply any qualitative or quantitative ranking to the sites, rather, this lists the features available on the different sites along with some evaluative comments on usability and design."

Investor Links

http:www.investorlinks.com

Picked by Barrons as one of the best financial websites on the Internet. Provide online investors a wide variety of current daily commentaries and stock analysis from some of Wall Street’s best known analysts and traders. Constantly updated

stock picks, charts, market analysis and commentary. Offers articles covering

the current markets, mutual funds, economy, futures markets, technical trading, plus a comprehensive financial directory on the Internet, with links and descriptions to over 12,000 financial websites

IPO

IPO Central
http://www.ipocentral.com/

IPO Data Systems
http://www.ipodata.com/

Company profiles searchable by ticker, company name, business description, or manager name. This site is organized in the categories new filings, new offerings, upcoming IPOs, and reports. The reports section includes information on withdrawn IPOs, IPOs by state, IPO industry breakdown, top performers, largest IPO failings, rankings of the top auditor manager and law firms and more. The "week in review" section is particularly helpful for keeping up to date with IPO information

JAPAN

Japan Stock Exchange

http://japanfinancials.com/#Source

Translations & Originals of Official Financial Statements: All Tokyo Stock Exchange and major OTC firms / 2500 firms/ Prepared by American specialist in

Daiwa Institute of Research

http://www.dir.co.jp/Reception/welcome.html

Included are reports under the following headings: Viewpoint, Economic Reports, Outlook, Forecasts, Strategy Reports, Corporate and Industry Reports, and Asia Pacific Reports.

Japan Financials

http://japanfinancials.com/

Complete detailed financial statement data for all companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Jetro

http://www.jetro.go.jp/top/database.html

JETRO promoted Japanese exports to meet the needs of the nation's postwar economy. Founded by the Japanese government the site has comprehensive trade directory, market research reports, news and trade shows database.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI)

http://www.meti.go.jp/english/index.html

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) site informs visitors about Japan's current economic policies. Reports available include the plans to reform the economic structure, trade issues, and the 1997 White Paper on International Trade which looks at trends in world trade and long-term issues concerning Japanese trade and industry. A collection of chronologically sorted press releases, transcripts of press conferences, statistics on industrial production, and a summary of industrial economic trends can be found at this site. A collection of trade-related reports and Japanese submissions to the World Trade Organization (WTO) are also available

Nikkei Net Interactive

http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/FR/AWG/

Latest news and resources on Japan and Asian economies from one of the most popular Japanese business newspapers.

JOBS *

*Career/Employment Resources via BII (Business Internet Index)

http://www.library.cornell.edu/johnson/library/BII/lists/career-employment.html#bio

JOURNALS/NEWSPAPERS

Advertising Age

http://adage.com/

Advertising Age publishes the full-text of recent top stories from it's print publication. It has an Interactive Daily, which contains articles about web marketing and critiques

of web marketers. It contains rankings of global marketers. Marketing and web marketing conference and event calendars are p

Adweek

http://www.adweek.com/aw/index.jsp

Adweek provides free article excerpts as well as the full-text of one feature story from each of its three major print publications: Adweek, Brandweek, and Mediaweek. The site also posts daily internet marketing newswires and spotlights various brand marketing campaigns.

Articles

www.findarticles.com

FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more

American Demographics

http://www.americandemographics.com/

American Demographics publishes it's print edition on the web in full-text access. Users are asked to browse the site and to subscribe to the print edition if they want to continue using it. Also contains access to Marketing Tools articles, recent demographic reports, and a bookstore of American Demographics' publications

Banking Technology News

http://www.electronicbanker.com/btn/m_btn2.shtml

Banking Technology News provides reports and rankings within technology, including home banking, Internet payments, smart cards, automated tellers, data warehousing, intranets, cash management, trading systems, and branch automation.

Business 2.O

http://www.business2.com/

Business 2.O is a magazine that examines the changing landscape for commerce in the digital world. It puts its magazine on its web site in full-text format and supplements content with articles from other sources. The in-depth "case" studies of internet and high-tech businesses are particularly valuable tools for entrepreneurs

Business Week

http://www.businessweek.com/

Business Week gives you the current issue of Business Week including stories that only appear in Business Week International editions.

CIO online

http://64.28.79.79/resources/

CIO online is a website for senior level IT and business professionals. It provides in-depth articles and research reports on IT issues, including year 2000, web-related issues, electronic commerce, data warehousing, outsourcing, etc. It includes the full-text of CIO's articles from 1994 to the present

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/

The Economist web site offers many full text articles from the current issue and selected articles from recent issues. Registered users (registration is free) may search the site's index of archived articles. The site posts Emerging Markets Indicators, Economic Indicators, and Financial Indicators on a weekly basis. Users can have the Business & Politics This Week summaries sent to them

Elseviers Econobase

http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econworld/menu.htm

Elsevier’s Econobase Is a searchable database of articles from many of Elsevier's publications, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Markets, European Economic Review, and others. The database can search titles, authors, abstracts, key-words or JEL codes in a database of 67 journals.

Entrepreneur Magazine

http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_FrontDoor/0,4430,,00.html

provides an online site featuring many articles from the print magazine as well as other resources for entrepreneurs. Users can searched archived full-text articles from 1991 - present using keywords. The site ranks the hottest 100 new businesses, 100 best banks for small business, and best cities for small business. It provides entrepreneurship tips, and features a Franchise Opportunity guide, which includes 500 franchises & rankings of the best new, fastest growth, and low investment franchises). The site also discusses trends in entrepreneurship , and provides EASI geographic economic reports. 75 entrepreneurs (now millionaires) tell their stories at this site. A library of free business forms is also available.

EuroMoney

http://www.euromoney.com/

EuroMoney provides full-text articles from recent issues of Euromoney, Euroweek, Corporate Finance, Global Investor, Project & Trade Finance Newsletter. It also contains a data section which contains bondware tables, country risk surveys, and emerging markets bank ratings. Search for articles by keyword or category. Access to some parts of the site is restricted to registered users; registration is free

Far Eastern Economic Review

http://www.feer.com/

Far Eastern Economic Review includes significant portions of the journal online in full-text format. It also provides a searchable archive of past issues. Registration required .

Financial Times

http://news.ft.com/home/us

FT.com provides the full-text of about 1/3 of the current day's issue of Financial Times. It contains a searchable archive of 30 days. It also provides exchange rates, share prices, equity index prices, company briefings, and leading economic indicator data for several countries. Free registration is required

Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/

Forbes covers the current issue plus older ones in their archives. Also includes the 500 Largest Private Companies, the 200 Best Small Companies in America, 100 Fastest Growing, Top 50 for minorities and much more. For fee. Registration required.

Globe & Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Globe & Mail provides users with various topics of information including news, sports, classifieds, mutual funds, advertising information, births and deaths, etc. It also includes daily closing markets data. Under the “Finance” link on the top right of the page users can generate stock reports, produce charts, search for articles, learn about mutual funds, and how to set up a fund lists.

Harvard Business Review

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/home/index.jhtml?_requestid=9868

Harvard Business Review provides free abstracts and ordering information for recent articles.

Inc.com

http://www.inc.com/home/

Inc. com is a journal which contains articles on-line. It covers areas including

advertising, marketing, products, and consulting. With free registration one can use 100 free resources on topics like how to start small business, financial management, hiring and recruiting, performance management, personnel administration and workers safety.

It also includes the INC 500 which provides users with information on American's fastest-growing private companies. It contains the latest news, product announcements, employment opportunities, and more.

Investors Business Daily

http://www.investors.com/

Investors Business Daily covers business, financial, economic, and national news. The rest of the financial information is for subscribers only.

Kiplinger Online

http://www.kiplinger.com/

Kiplinger Online provides users with information on business forecast, personal finance, stock quotes, top funds, yields and rates, and retirement advice. It also includes information on savings and investing, fund-raisings, and allowances for kids.

Market Scope ( Newspaper Association of America)

http://www.naa.org/marketscope/databank/index.htm

Market Scope provides historical quarterly newspaper advertising expenditures and ad volume. It also provides readership information, average newspaper prices, and circulation data

New York Times on the Web

http://www.nytimes.com/

New York Times provides subscribers with the latest news online. News is broken down into various categories including International, Metro, Sciences, Business, etc. Includes weather forecasts, up-to-minute sports scores and summaries, and market quotes for stocks, options, and mutual funds.

Red Herring

http://www.redherring.com/

Red Herring provides business information for the technology and entertainment industries.

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/

USA Today provides general news as well as Wall Street market summaries, global market news, mutual fund reports, economic reports, bank rates, and IPO's.

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Washington Post provides feature articles from its print edition, as well as additional online features

SMEALSearch

http://smealsearch.psu.edu/

SMEALSearch is a niche search engine that searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports. Articles available through the SMEALSearch engine can be downloaded (for fair use) without any charges. However, some articles may have only the abstracts listed, and may have to be purchased directly from the appropriate sources

JUSTICE STATISTICS

Bureau of Justice Statistics

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

Data are published annually on: criminal victimization, populations under correctional supervision and federal criminal offenders and case processing. Periodic data series include: administration of law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities, prosecutorial practices and polices, state court case processing, felony convictions, characteristics of correctional populations, criminal justice expenditure and employment, civil case processing in state courts and special studies on other criminal justice topics

LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://stats.bls.gov/

Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data and information on consumer and producer prices, employment and unemployment, occupational compensation, workplace injuries and illness, employee benefits, and productivity.

Labor Net

http://www.labornet.org/

Labor Net contains computer communications, news, information and links to data resources.

Labor Migration / International Database/

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/ilmdb/ilmdb.htm

The lack of reliable quantitative measures on international migration is an obstacle to informed discussion on the subject, and thus, for the formulation of appropriate migration policies. This database is an attempt to address this problem by providing some basic statistics on the stocks and flows of employed migrants in the Member States of the ILO. Data are solicited from Member States through a questionnaire first mailed in 1998 and again in 2000 (see Download) designed to yield comparable statistics.

Work Index

http://workindex.com/

Work Index is a meta site for human resources, labor law, training and development and other sites that focus on the workplace

LATIN AMERICA

Latin Investor

http://www.latinvestor.com/homeENG.asp

Latinvestor.com has thousands of reports from Brokers and Consulting Firms on Latin American Economies, Companies and Industries/ some free /

Latco

http://www.latco.org/tools.htm

Useful Sites for International Trade with Latin America.

Lanic

http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Country and Business Information and various links to government organizations arranged by topic from the University of Texas at Austin.

LOCAL DATA CENTER

Census /Local State Data/

http://www.census.gov/sdc/www

The State Data Center ( SDC) program is the official source of demographic, economic, and social statistics produced by the Census Bureau in the US.

LAW & GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS RESEARCH

LexisOne

http://www.lexisone.com/

LexisONE^sm is a unique Web community designed to meet the day-to-day practice demands of small-firm attorneys. The lexisONE^sm service is loaded with free resources, including case law; forms; legal news; and an extensive legal Web Site Directory, providing links to thousands of law-related Web sites.

lexisONE^sm also offers fast, intuitive LexisNexis™ research - priced by the day, week or month for the individual small-firm attorney. lexisONE^sm was launched in July 2000 by LexisNexis

LLRX

http://www.llrx.com/about.htm

LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal and library professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools. Among the topics covered are technology, business and legal research congressional activities that involve technology, research, and libraries reviews of legal and non-legal websites for researchers international and comparative law guides by authors, worldwide technology training resources and seminar materials and presentations from leading legal and library-related technology conferences

Internet Law Library

http://www.phillipsnizer.com/library/

Internet Law Library features extensive summaries of over 290 court decisions shaping the law of the web; providing facts, analysis and pertinent quotes from cases of interest to those involved in New Media addressing copyright, trademark, dilution and other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, meta tags, clip-art, defamation, domain name, e-mail, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements, shrink-wrap licenses, spamming and other subjects indexed below.

Law Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law-guide.html

The mission of the Law Library of Congress is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress as well as to U.S. Federal Courts and Executive Agencies. The site also offers a very well explained guide to state and federal law resources and a short index of international country law guides.

Law Directory / Articles/

www.law.com

Directory provides articles from legal magazines and local laws and news for each US state. Free registration required for some materials

Law Dictionary

www.nolo.com

Nolo contains plain-English definitions for more than one thousand legal terms

Find Law

www.findlaw.com

Find Law is the highest-trafficked legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for lawyers, businesses, students and individuals

Legal History Resources on the Web

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/legalhis.htm
A selective guide to legal history resources on the Web, with special emphasis on archives and rare book collections

Lawyer Locator –Martindale Hubbel

http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml

More than 900,000 lawyers and law firms in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Law Source

http://www.lawsource.com

The site aims to provide "a comprehensive, uniform, and useful
compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law
for the United States and Canada." Provides browsable links by
country and state or province. Also includes links to uniform
laws, law reviews, law schools, and monographs. Some portions are
searchable.

Courtaccess.org

http://www.courtaccess.org/

This site is an information clearinghouse on the topic of public access to court records and the current debate on privacy concerns that arise as courts improve and expand their court information systems and put more information on the Internet

INTERNATIONAL LAW

ASIL Electronic Resources Guide

http://www.asil.org/resource/iel1.htm

The site of American Society of International Law ( ASIL) offers an overview of electronic resources in this dynamic and evolving area of law. The emphasis will be on Internet sites from such sources as international and regional organizations, non-governmental international entities and government agencies. This chapter aims to present the researcher, whether the academic, practitioner or international business person, with an introduction to important and current sources of information for international economic law.

LOBBYIST DATABASE/ CAMPAIGN FINANCE

Lobbyist Directory ( Federal)

http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/cgi-win/lb_directory.exe?DoFn=

The Federal Lobbyist Directory offers material for about 2500 lobbying organizations, 25,000 clients, and over 28,000 individual lobbyists. Searching “Microsoft” returns a list of current lobbyists, and links to images of original filings. A search for “Patton Boggs” returns a client list, links to political action committee data, a list of company lobbyists, and direct links to quickly access new registrations and former clients.

Open Secrets

www.opensecrets.org

From the Center of Responsive Politics: find out which industries, lobbyists, and PACs are donating to a particular campaign.

MBA SCHOOL GUIDES

Critical Guide to the World's Best MBAs

http://mba.eiu.com/

A critical guide to the worlds best MBA

Official MBA Guide

http://unicorn.us.com/guide/

Worldwide Rankings Business Schools

http://door.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankbus.htm

MACROECONOMIC DATA SERIES

Macroeconomic Time Series Data Source Locator:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/busecon/macroecon/

This service provides you with a list of macroeconomic data sources available at the University of Chicago categorized by year, geographic location and subject. Types of sources include books, journals, yearbooks, CD-ROMs and Internet resources. For each source we determined the oldest date listed for a particular data category (balance of payments, bond market related)

MANAGEMENT / CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Brint

http://www.brint.com/

BRINT 'The BizTech Network' is the premier knowledge resource and global community network for Business Technology, Information Economy, and, Knowledge Management executives, professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs. Recommended by Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Information Week, CIO Magazine, KM World, New York Times, and hundreds of other worldwide publications, it is the largest, deepest, and most reputed resource on leading-edge knowledge in these practice areas. Search under “ General Reference” section 2 Business Administration and Business Systems.

The Corporate Library

http://www.thecorporatelibrary.com/

The Corporate Library is intended to serve as a central repository for research, study, and critical thinking about the nature of the modern global corporation, with a special focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, their boards and their shareowners. Use this site to retrieve CEO compensation packages and employment contracts (publicly traded firms only) as well as Director biographies for the companies in the S&P 1500 Supercomposite Index. Screen on a variety of features to identify matching directors (e.g. company name, age, attendance problems, # shares held, etc.) The site also contains research reports on trends in corporate governance.

MANUFACTURING

Grainger.com
http://www.grainger.com/

This online catalog of industrial and commercial equipment and supplies has information on the over 200,000 items which Grainger carries. The catalog can be searched by product description, Grainger item number, or manufacturer model number.

Manufacturing Marketplace
http://www.manufacturing.net/

Manufacturing information including: a fully-searchable database of over 30,000 manufacturers and service companies (the "manufacturing yellow pages"); articles about plant operations and manufacturing processes; business and economic news updated twice each business day; and a directory of more than 6,000 new product listings, updated every week. Free registration is required for some information.

Thomas Register
http://www.thomasregister.com/index.html

Information about industrial products or services and the companies which manufacture and distribute them. Covers more than 155,000 U.S. and Canadian companies. Who manufactures what by location

MARKET RESEARCH

MarketResearch.com :

www.marketresearch.com /fee /

Search their collection of 50,000+ publications from over 350 leading research firms. There are a few free reports.

U.S. Commercial Service / International Trade Administration ITA/

http://www.export.gov/marketresearch.html

Access the extensive U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library containing more than 100,000 industry and country-specific market reports, web sites, events, and trade directory listings. Country Commercial Guides (CCGs), prepared by US Embassy Staff, Industry Sector Analyses (ISAs) - In-depth analysis of specific industry sectors and sub-sectors within a given market; International Market Insight (IMIs) - Brief updates within a foreign country highlighting specific market opportunities, trade events, or changes in market conditions ; Multilateral Development Bank Reports - International trade opportunities and financing information through the various multilateral development banks throughout the world.

U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/outlook/index.html

A single-source, industry-by-industry overview of the U.S. economy. The print edition is ceased, a web project is developing.

NAICS sector breakdown of the US economy / 1997-2002/

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/usito98/tables_naics.htm

SIC sector breakdown of the US economy / 1987-1997/

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/usito98/tables.htm

The product data are for 1987 through 1996, 1997 product data on a SIC basis are not available.

Current Industrial Reports / Statistics mainly /
http://www.census.gov/cir/www/index.html

Industry Information / International Trade Administration/
http://www.ita.gov
Select country information and then market analyses for comprehensive list of market information about specific countries.

U.S. Business Reporter
http://www.activemedia-guide.com/industry_profile_cp.htm

For a nominal fee there is plenty of industry information. One of the downsizes: the reports are old and the database is not thorough.

Gallup

http://www.gallup.com/

Gallup freely provides much of their polling results online. Includes public opinion on social issues, business, politics, and technology. Contains survey results on respondent's health habits, recreation and leisure time, and attendance at arts and cultural events.

J. D. Power & Associates

http://www.jdpower.com/

J. D. Power & Associates provides free access to part of its market research online. Contains annual award reports for the automotive, telecommunications, credit card, and travel industries, and provides access to a searchable database of statistical and descriptive excerpts from its annual studies

Survey of Consumer Finances ( SFC)

http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html

SCF is a triennial survey of the balance sheet, pension, income, and other demographic characteristics of U.S. families. The survey also gathers information on the use of financial institutions. The links to the surveys provide summary results of the surveys, code books and related documentation, and the publicly available data. The Survey goes back to 1962.

MARKETING/ ADVERTISING

http://www.aaaagencysearch.com/

AAAAgencySearch.com

http://www.aaaagencysearch.com/

AAAAgencySearch.com is a database of members of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Search the database by agency name, brand or client name, by billings, number of employees, industry experience and category specialties (e.g. African American market, or Business-to-Business marketing. The search engine returns a list of matching agencies and provides the above information for each agency

Agency ComPile

http://www.agencycompile.com/

Advertising Age / Data Center/

http://www.adage.com/datacenter.cms

The bible of the industry. It has 100 Leading National Advertisers with their ad spending estimates, Global Marketers, Top Megabrands, The U.S.’ largest media companies, magazines and newspapers: includes circulation, linage and ad revenue rankings. A Look into the advertsing agencies: data from Ad Age’s 58th annual Agency Report: includes Media Specialist companies, direct marketing and sales promotion shops, Internet agencies, PR firms and more. There are also salary surveys: Ad Age's annual survey of f the salaries of more than 200 top agency executives.

Advertising World

http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/

Marketing Communications Directory arranged by subject. Come here for directories of agents, associations, market research firms, and PR firms. Find sites dealing with consumer psychology, coupons, web marketing and more.

Dentsu Online Getaway

http://www.dentsu.com/homeNoFlash.htm

Dentsu Online Getaway provides data on Japanese advertising expenditures. Click on “Dentsu Data” to retrieve data

Market Scope ( Newspaper Association of America)

http://www.naa.org/marketscope/databank/index.htm

Market Scope provides historical quarterly newspaper advertising expenditures and ad volume. It also provides readership information, average newspaper prices, and circulation data

Marketing Resource Center

http://www.marketingsource.com/

Marketing Resource Center is a site that focuses on marketing and the internet

Information by ZIP code ( California State University)

http://library.csun.edu/mfinley/zipstats.html

A comprehensive guide to finding all kinds of information by ZIP code.

Melissa Data (Zip Data)

http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm

Numerous sites provide access to this type of info but this compilation of FREE lookups from Melissa Data is first rate. Here you can access ZIP codes, city names, the location of phone numbers or the cities covered by an area code. Enter any street name in the U.S. and get a listing of which states and cities have the street name. Even displays local street address detail. There is also income tax information by ZIP Code. Includes average AGI, number of returns, average refund, filing status, age and more. You can also lookup any Canadian address and get the Postal Code, time zone and area code Finally if you are interested in area and zip codes in radius and zip codes by county Melissa Data is your site.

The Green Book

http://www.greenbook.org/

The Directory of Market Research Companies via the Internet provides access to "thousands of market research companies worldwide indexed and cross-indexed 9 different ways. You can search for facilities and services using multiple criteria including: company name, research services offered, market specialties, industry specialties, computer programs, trademarked products and services, geographic location and key personnel listings

MARKETING CASES

Harvard Business School Cases & Teaching Materials
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/cases/

The Darden case collection, maintained by the Darden Graduate School of
Business Administration at the University of Virginia
http://www.darden.virginia.edu/collection/

Richard Ivey School of Business Case and Publication Services
University of Western Ontario School of Business
http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/IveyPublishing/cps.asp?pvar=Main

(OR Gale Reference Book "Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns", 2000 )

MERGERS & ACCUSITIONS

Mergstat

http://www.mergerstat.com/new/indexnew.asp

Mergstat provides general M&A data, including the total number of deals annually 1963 - present, and the total value of deals annually 1970 - present., industry rankings , and top 100 financial advisors ranked by deal value and number of deals. Also includes Mergerstat press releases on the industry. Registration is required, but is free. To see the "free reports" available from Mergerstat, click the Products link, then click View Market Trend Reports FREE. Click Sign up Today to register.

MIDDLE EAST

http://duns100.dundb.co.il/

This FREE Guide Provides Current Information About Israel's Largest Enterprises. The guide summarizes the achievements of the leading companies in Israel, ranking them according to the size and progress indexes and provides a clear and concise look at Israel's largest companies. Use of this guide is FREE

Middle East Study Resources

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/

Various resources suggested by the Lehman Library.

ArabNet

http://www.arab.net/meid/

The site offers country overviews and links to Arab companies.

MORTAGE MARKETS

FannieMae

http://www.fanniemae.com/

FannieMae provides mortgage information, electronic newsletters, and quarterly and annual reports on FannieMae investment products.

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

http://www.ffiec.gov/reports.htm

Contains data by company at the county level on demographic characteristics of borrowers and loan applicants. The site also reports on mortgage and refinancing applications by race, gender, state and income under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act page.

MUTUAL FUNDS

Mutual Funds

http://www.ici.org/

The Investment Company Institute puts out this site for mutual fund statistics and research. Institute staff collect, compile, verify for accuracy, and release a wide range of statistics on approximately 8,300 U.S.-based mutual funds. The Institute also collects data on U.S.-based closed ends funds, exchange traded funds and unit investment trusts, as well as foreign open-end investment companies in conjunction with investment company industry associations. The Mutual Fund FactBook has a years of historical data and you might be able to find the info you need. And it's free.

Fund Library

http://www.fundlibrary.com/tfl/homepage/p_home.cfm

Fund Library includes information about canadian mutual funds, including daily fund prices and links to fund companies. It cites relevant books, newsletters, and press releases.

Morningstar

http://www.morningstar.com/

Morningstar allows users to search by fund name for quicktake reports, which include fund performance, volatility, Morningstar Ratings,sector wightings & asset allocation, and recent newswires. Screen for a ranking of mutual funds, based on a variety of criteria. Review Morningstar shortlists and read Morningstar columns on many investment topics.

Mutual Fund Interactive Page

http://www.brill.com/index.html

Mutual Fund Interactive Page was created by Marla Brill, a personal finance writer for The Boston Globe. This page features articles by Brill and links to other sites. Contains advice about mutual fund investing and complete profiles from fidelity.com.

Quicken Mutual Funds

http://www.quicken.com/investments/mutualfunds/

Quicken Mutual Funds provides quotes, rankings, financials, and Morningstar reports

Zack’s

http://www.zacks.com/?ALERT=my.zacks.com

Specializes in corporate earnings estimates. This site provides free estimates, rankings and brokerage buy’s lists but charges for analyst reports

Mutual Funds / Statistics (ICI )

http://www.ici.org/

From the Investment Company Institute, this site has links to facts and figures on approximately 8,300 U.S.-based mutual funds, trends, issues, information about mutual funds and mutual fund shareholders and much more. There is also monthly mutual fund and mutual fund assets data, mutual fund fact book, and mutual fund institutional statistics. The Institute also collects data on U.S.-based closed-ends funds, exchange-trade funds and unit investment trusts.

The Vanguard

http://www.vanguard.com/

Learn about mutual funds, exchange-traded shares, stocks and bonds, 401(k) accounts and other investment services.

NAICS/ SIC

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) became ( 1997) the new standard code system to describe business establishments and industries, replacing the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes. This new system used by the United States, Mexican, and Canadian Governments will be used to collect and distribute statistical information. This site provides information about NAICS, allows code searches by industry, and has a SIC -> NAICS converter.

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)

http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html

The site allows the user to search the 1987 version SIC manual by keyword, to access descriptive information for a specified 4-digit SIC, and to examine the manual structure. The SIC manual is published by the National Technical Information Service.

NONPROFIT ORGHANIZATIONS

GudeStar

www.guidestar.org

Research database of more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations.

These filings—known as Forms 990—provide specific information on a charity's revenues, expenses, executive salaries, board members, programs and activities.

The NonProfit Times (Directory)

www.nptimes.com/main/directory.html

The NonProfit Times, published 24 times a year, is read by over 34,000 full time nonprofit executive management around the country. Each issue is packed with hard hitting and useful business information on managing their organizations more effectively.

There is also a study of the top 100 non profit organization by income, public and government support, total assets, expenses, findrising, membership.

Charitable Contributions

http://www.aafrc.org/giving

The following charts from GIVING USA 2002 present overviews of giving by source of contributions and by recipient organizations. The database gives only raw numbers in the US. For more detailed information data must be ordered.

Researching the Exempt Organization
http://www.afscme.org/wrkplace/990ind.htm

How-to guide with links for getting information on the nonprofit/tax exempt sector. Explains how to get 990 forms, which tax exempt organizations are required to file with the IRS.

OLD STOCK PRICES

Big Chalk

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/

This Historical Quotes tool allows you to look up a security's exact closing price.
Simply type in the symbol and a historical date to view a quote and mini chart for that security.

PATENTS

IBM Intellectual Property Network
http://www.patents.ibm.com/

The Patent Server contains bibliographic data and text of all claims of patents issued by the USPTO. Search over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions as well as the last 17 years of images - entries are for January 5, 1971 to the present. Subsets of European and Japanese patents, including the Derwent abstracts of Japanese Kokai since 1996 are also included. An additional 1.4 million European and world patent documents are also available. The site is also searchable by country, keyword, and patent number, and includes images for patents registered in the last ten years.

US Patent and Trademark Office Databases
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

The Full-Text Database now offers all US patents issued since 1790, in the form of searchable patent numbers and current US classifications hyperlinked to full-page images of each page of each patent.

European Patent Office

http://www.european-patent-office.org/online/index.htm

Patent information on the Internet - an extensive set of links to national patent offices and patent providers

US Patent and Trademark Office: Related Web Sites
http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/other.html

Lists links to patent offices around the world.

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

Pharma

http://www.phrma.org/

Pharma is an association representing about 100 companies dedicated to pharmaceutical research. The site provides in depth statistical coverage of the industry. Several of the associations publications are available on-line in full-text format, including the most recent Industry Profile under “Publications”.

PHONE DIRECTORIES

ATT

http://www.tollfree.att.net/tf.html

Look up toll-free numbers anywhere in the U.S. Search by category, state, city, business name--or any combination--to get to the listings you need. Updated twice each month. Reverse phone number search available

InfoSpace

http://www.infospace.com/

Infospace allows you to search for people, businesses, e-mail, government offices, fax numbers, toll-free, reverse lookup, and more.

SuperPages

http://www.superpages.ca/

Super Pages is a directory of businesses. Contains links to web sites, where applicable and links to street maps of areas surrounding businesses. Search by company name or business category. Super Pages also contains listings for 100 million U.S. residences. It also contains a Canadian Yellow Pages Directory (http://www.superpages.ca/)

Switchboard

http://www.switchboard.com/

Switchboard is a free nationwide residential and business directory. Look up people by last name, first name, city, state, or any combination of these. It provides addresses and telephone numbers of individuals listed.

Infobel

http://www.infobel.com/teldir/default.asp

Infobel provides links to online telephone, fax, and business directories from around the world.

People Search Yahoo

http://people.yahoo.com/

Yahoo People Search is an online directory which allows users to search for people and companies via White Pages, Yellow Pages, and an AT&T Toll Free listing. Users can also perform advanced E-mail searches here. Maps/Directions available.

PRODUCTS

Product Directory

http://www.wand.com/

WAND, Inc. is a technology company that develops and delivers directory enabling technologies to various businesses and organizations around the world. WAND's directory technologies are highlighted by a classification system of over 60,000 product and service types, 16 language navigability and a network that links

Thomas Register

http://www2.thomasregister.com/index.cgi

Thomas Register allows users to search by product name for U.S. public and private manufacturers. Includes over 60,000 product heading categories and over 5500 on-line supply catalogs.

PICTURES

Picsearch

http://www.picsearch.org/

Picsearch is providing search engine for pictures on the web. Not only in terms of indexed pictures in their database but also in terms of the quality of these indexed pictures and the relevance to associated keywords

PUBLIC COMPANIES * See SEC FILLINGS

PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH CENTERS

NIRA Directory of Think Thanks

http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/nwdtt/index.html#1

NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks provides a systematic introduction to the world's most prominent and innovative public policy research institutes, better known as think tanks. This completely revised edition contains up-to-date information available on 320 specially selected think tanks from 77 countries and regions

PolicyBot

http://www.heartland.org/policybot.cfm

PolicyBot is the Internet's most extensive clearing-house for the work of free-market think tanks, with more than 12,500 studies and commentaries from over 350 think tanks and advocacy groups. To search the PolicyBot database, navigate through the topic list on the left, or use the form below to specify keywords or the name of an author or publisher. You can also search for a specific document number if you know it, or for all documents added during a specified time period.

PUBLIC RECORDS

Search Systems

http://www.searchsystems.net/

A primary source for free public records on the Internet broken by type of public record and down by location. The site also features free public records, law and phone directories for Canada, US territories and Europe.

BRB Publications

http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp

Listed below are nearly 2,050 county, state and federal (court) URL's where you can access public record information for free. This list does not contain URL's for state occupational licensing boards or registrations. However, over 2,500 searchable licensing boards are found in BRB's professional products

CrimeTime

http://www.crimetime.com/online.html

Crimetime offers free web searches for investigators including public records.

RANKINGS

Gary’s List of Lists / Rankings; Statistics; Popular Data/

http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

Lists On The Web

http://207.21.203.96/list.html

Everyone loves a list! And we've scoured the web to find lists and rankings including: the Nation's Largest Companies, the Most Wanted Criminals to the Most Beautiful People in the World and more. You'll find this page only at The Internet Job Source.

Ranking Lists (New York)

http://www.crainsny.com

The only publication dedicated to exclusive coverage of ranking businesses and market facts in New York City, Crain's keeps tabs on the people, the companies, the products, the politics, and much more.

Entrepreneur

http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/MA_FrontDoor/0,4430,,00.html

The site provides an online site featuring many articles from the print magazine as well as other resources for entrepreneurs. Users can searched archived full-text articles from 1991 - present using keywords. . The site ranks under “ Listings” the hottest 100 new businesses, 100 best banks for small business, and best cities for small business. It provides entrepreneurship tips, and features a Franchise Opportunity guide, which includes 500 franchises & rankings of the best new, fastest growth, and low investment franchises. The site also discusses trends in entrepreneurship, , and provides EASI geographic economic reports. 75 entrepreneurs (now millionairs) tell their stories at this site. A library of free business forms is also available.

Fin Facts ( Irish Portal)

http://www.finfacts.com/

Fin Facts is primarily a business news site, but it does include rankings of the world's most respected companies, most valuable brands, top clicks & mortar companies, quality of life city rankings, etc.

Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/

Forbes covers the 500 Largest Private Companies and The 200 Best Small Companies in America.

Fortune

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/

Fortune covers the current issue plus older ones in their archives. Also includes the Fortune 500 List, Gloabl 500 List, Pacific Rim Special, and Investor's Guide 1997

RESUME / CAREER

Resume & Tips from BII index

http://www.library.cornell.edu/johnson/library/BII/lists/career-employment.html

Very useful site suggested by Cornell University staff. All the Career sources are divided by occupation. MBA are also included in the index.

REFERENCE

Gary’s List of Lists / Rankings; Statistics; Popular Data/

http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

Valuation Resources

http://www.valuationresources.com/default.htm

Business valuation is a general reference source including industry reports and outlooks, financial ratios, salary surveys, public company data, mergers and acquisitions legal and tax resources, transaction data and more.

The Scout Report

http://scout.wisc.edu/

From the University of Wisconsin. "Published every Friday both on the web and by email, [The Scout Report] provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet

Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES)

http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/vibehome.htm

Vibes provides over 1,600 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are English and available free of charge. The site is especially useful with the international links of business information.

Free Lunch

https://www.economy.com/freelunch/

Economy.com's FreeLunch provides you with FREE access to over 900,000 economic and financial data series. Sponsored by the consulting company Economy.com, this site provides access to thousands of pieces of economic and
financial information in either chart or table form. The data is taken primarily from various United States government publications. Browsable topics include demographics, international trade, employment, crime statistics, and more. Also searchable. Free registration required to download

EconoData

http://www.econdata.net/

Contains more than 800 links to socio-economic data sources, arranged by both subject and provider. Provides pointers to the World Wide Web's premiere data collections, and a list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic data

Zimmerman Research Guide ( Lexis One) !!!

http://www.lexisone.com/zimmermanguide/index.html

An Online Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers by Andrew Zimmerman

The Guide is keyword and phrase searchable. Phrases should be enclosed in quotes. You can search the full-text (the default), the subject headings only, or the text of entries only without the subject headings. It is also possible to browse alphabetically. Courtesy of the Law Resource Exchange. Very thorough.

REAL ESTATE ( Market Reports)

Local Real Estate Laws ( Law.com)

http://realestate.findlaw.com/

Find Law’s legal information, tools, and resources are FREE for you to use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Entering your ZIP Code will provide you with a number of benefits, including articles, links, and attorney listings that are relevant for your state or locality.

Buildings.com / Research

http://www.buildings.com/Reis/ReisFrame.asp

The site offers market overviews of and snapshots of market conditions for multiple property average rent and vacancy growth, rent and vacancy and rent growth and inventory growth

http://www.bestplaces.net/

Compare cities in housing, costs of living, crime, education, economy, health and climate. Choose any two cities and see them displayed side-by-side. Currently there are more than 3000 cities in the database.

American Housing Survey data

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ahs.html

The survey collects data on the Nation's housing, including apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, vacant housing units, household characteristics, income, housing and neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment and fuels, size of housing unit, and recent movers, National data are collected in odd numbered years, and data for each of 47 selected Metropolitan Areas are collected about every four years, with an average of 12 Metropolitan Areas included each year.

Home Price Check

www.domania.com

Domania's Home Price Check powers real estate research on the Internet, giving consumers free, 24-hour-a-day access to more than 26 million home sales records. This key data helps consumers save time and money in the management, purchase or sale of their principal personal asset -- their home.

Real Estate, Tax Property Information, Public Records (US)

http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm

The online Public Records database is an Information Portal to official state web sites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed web sites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet. Public records information that you may find includes copies of deeds, parcel maps, GIS maps, tax data, ownership information and indexes, and will vary to the extent that the particular office has developed their site.

Fannie Mae/ Home Morgage Funds /Research

http://www.fanniemae.com/

This is the largest diversified financial company in the world, and the nation's largest source of home mortgage funds. This site includes publications of Fannie Mae's Office of Housing Research.

Home Fair /Salaries /Cost of Living

http://www.homefair.com/homefair/servlet/ActionServlet?pid=27&cid=homefair

From the top commercial real estate web site Realtor.com com. The site includes comparative information on salaries and cost of living by geography.

Housing and Urban Development ( HUD)

http://www.huduser.org/

This site is the Office of Policy Development and Research of the Department of Housing and Urban Development offers data on data sets on single-family and multifamily mortgage purchases by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back to 1993, Comprehensive Market Analysis and the text of US Housing Market Conditions, where one can find house production ( house permits), sales ( house marketing), housing market profiles and historical rankings ( regional activity) and historical data about the number of private houses started and finished ( 1965-present).

International Real Estate Directory

http://www.ired.com/

Gateway to over 20,000 real estate related WEB sites in 105 countries."

Best Places to Live (CNN Money)

http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/

The famous rankings form CNN Money. The database also allows cities to be searched separately.

Interest

http://interest.com/

Mortgage information and rates

National Association of Home Builders

http://www.nahb.org/category.aspx?sectionID=113

In this section, NAHB has assembled a wide variety of Economic and Housing Data materials and information: homes sales and price, forecasts, financial and mortgage markets, building materials, Housing Material Index (HMI), Housing Opportunity Index (HOI), Remodeling Market Index (RMI), Multifamily Housing Index (MHI) and construction statistics.

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts

http://www.nareit.com/

Nareit Online is your internet source for information about REITs and publicly traded real estate. Variables include property type, state, stock exchange, REIT type, and market cap.

Home Sales

http://www.homesales.gov

This site "provides current information about single family homes for sale by the U.S. Federal Government. These previously owned homes are for sale by public auction or other method. ... Anyone can buy a home ... but you must work with a real estate agent, broker or servicing representative to submit an offer or bid." The

listings of homes for sale are browsable by state, commonwealth, or territory. From several U.S. government departments.

Emerging Trends in Real Estate

http://www.lendlease.com.au/llweb/llc/main.nsf/all/all_publication

One of the most respected overviews of the industry from Lend Lease Real Estate Investments and Pricewaterhouse : analysis of the past year, markets , cash flow and forecast for the next year trends.

SALARY / BENEFITS/ EMPLOYMENT

FreeERISA ( Benefits-Pension-Welfare)

http://www.freeerisa.com/info/freeerisa.asp

FreeERISA.com is intended as a useful, free web-site where visitors may view or print retirement and welfare benefit information on the group or groups of their choice as this data appears on Form 5500.

Abbott, Langer & Associates

http://www.abbott-langer.com/

published by Abbott, Langer & Associates, provides users with salary survey data for various career fields. Basic reports are free, in depth reports are provided for a fee. The reports contain salary ranges by occupation, geographic area, length of experience, and educational level.

Job Star

http://www.jobstar.org/tools/salary/index.cfm

Provides users with overy 150 salary surveys and links to employment information in general and specific occupations. It includes tips on negotiation strategy. Surveys are pulled from several sources, including general periodicals, local newspapers, recruiters, and employment agencies.

Relocation Calculator

http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html

The site allows you to compute the equivalent salary you will need in your new location. To use the calculator, fill in your income and the code for your city of origin and your destination city. This service now covers international cities as well as domestic cities. The famous Realtor site also has a crime calculator.

Career Info Net

www.acinet.org

Find wage and employment trends, state wage and employment comparison , occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions, millions of employer contacts by state and profession, percentage of employed in government and private entities, and the most extensive US and international career resource library online There is also resume tutorial, job description writer, scholarship locator and employability check up

SALES REPRESENTATIVES see DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS

SEC FILLINGS (Corporate Filings and Annual Reports)

Guide to SEC Fillings from Columbia University

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/business/guides/filings.html#Common

Description of SEC forms from the US Security and Exchange Commission

http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/forms.htm

SecInfo

http://www.secinfo.com

Securities information from EDGAR database searchable by name, industry, business, SIC code, area code, topic, zip, date. The site also gives information about mergers & acquisitions, institutional ownership, insider trading, proxies ( company board members), and late filing notices.

EdgarScan

http://edgarscan.pwcglobal.com/servlets/edgarscan

Edgar Scan is an interface to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (SEC EDGAR) Filings. EdgarScan pulls filings from the SEC's servers and parses them automatically to find key financial tables and normalize financials to a common format that is comparable across companies. Using hyperlinks we can go directly to specific sections of the filing, including the financial statements, footnotes, extracted financial data and computed ratios. A small (35 kilobytes) Java applet called the "Bench Marking Assistant " performs graphical financial benchmarking interactively. Tables showing company comparisons can be downloaded as Excel charts and registered users can store company portfolios for future benchmarking.

Edgar Scan -Ranking of Public Companies by industry ( SIC code) and revenue

http://edgarscan.pwcglobal.com/EdgarScan/sic_list.html

Free Edgar

http://www.freeedgar.com/Search/BeginSearch.asp

FreeEDGAR offers free, unlimited access to real-time SEC filings. A free alert service and Excel spreadsheets of financial tables. You may search by company name, company ticker, or company SIC code. Please do not enter both a company name and a company ticker in the same search

SHELL COMPANIES

http://www.reversemerger.com/

Companies that are publically traded, but have no activity, buildings, employees, and only cash for assets. Typically these companies are used by private companies as merger partners so the private companies doesn't have to go through the work of finding money to go public

SECURITY INDUSTRY

Securities Industry Association

http://www.sia.com/

Securities Industry Association established in 1972, brings together more that 600 securities firms to accomplish common goals. Their web site includes several of the association's publications, including securities industry trends, statistics, financial results and free newsletters. This website also includes SIA’s job bank and career resource center.

SMALL BUSINESS

Small Business Administration

http://www.sba.gov/advo/

The Office of Advocacy is the voice for small business in the federal government and the source of small business statistics

Small Business Landing

http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/lending/

The Office of Advocacy annually analyses call report data collected by the Federal Reserve on the lending activity of about 9,000 individually reporting commercial banks. Banks are ranked based on their small business lending on a state-by-state basis

STOCK EXCHANGES

American Stock Exchange
http://www.amex.com/

Offers 15-20 minute delayed quotes, stock screening, and portfolio tracking for AMEX, NASDAQ, and NYSE stocks and indices. Also has 5 days of market news and 3 months of company news (searchable by ticker symbol) from a selection of wire and news services.

Boston Stock Exchange
http://www.bostonstock.com/

Information about the exchange, jobs and internships, news, and searchable databases of companies listed and securities traded on the Boston Stock Exchange.

Chicago Stock Exchange
http://www.chicagostockex.com/

The Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) is the second largest U.S. stock exchange. Its site includes CHX listings, history, statistics, news and career opportunities.

Global Stock & Commodity Exchanges
http://www.futureslinks.net/mkt-research-f.html

An extensive listing of international stock exchanges' web pages.

Nasdaq Stock Market
http://www.nasdaq.com/

See description at American Stock Exchange.

New York Stock Exchange
http://www.nyse.com/

Market information (including stock prices, market summary and statistics), listed companies with links, and international information are among the NYSE site's key features.

Philadelphia Stock Exchange
http://www.phlx.com/

A small site which includes quotes, news, newsletters, and historical information.

STOCK QUOTES / * SEE INVESTING

STATE DATA

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

http://www.bls.gov/eag/home.htm

An excellent source for employment, wage and layoff information

State Data Centers from the U.S. Census Bureau –
http://www.census.gov/sdc/www/

Includes links to State Centers for Business and Economic Research, or
Business Research Center, etc. (Name of the department varies by state

State and County Quick Facts from the U.S. Census
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography.

County Business Patterns ( U.S. Census)
http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html

Annual series provides subnational economic data by industry through
2001.

State Economic Development Information

http://www.osec.doc.gov/eda/html/2e1_statelinks.htm

The Economic Development Information Clearinghouse web site provides data about the economic development of US states organized by state web sites

Local Government Guide to the Internet (NB!)

http://www.rural.org/lgg/lggurls.html

Very useful guide for state data arranged by subject. To start search just click on a subject

State Budgets

http://www.financenet.gov/financenet/state/stbudget.htm

A website linking all the 50 states budget

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNEMNT DIRECTORIES

PiperInfo

http://www.piperinfo.com/ (old)

http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

The PiperInfo pages (State & Local Information On The Net) are intended to provide convenient access to a wide variety of links to government information.

T

TAX STATISTICS * See IRS

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY

Telecommunications Industry (Reports-US; World )

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/industry_analysis/

The Industry Analysis Division and the Office of Communication and Industry Information conducts economic, financial, and statistical analyses of the common carrier telecommunications industry. These analyses are used by industry, the financial investment community, and by federal and state regulators for a variety of purposes. The Division also maintains the internet site that allows access to our analyses and data on the telecommunications industry.

RHK Telecommunications Industry Analysis ( Free Reports)

http://www.rhk.com/prcontact.asp?year=01

RHK is the leading industry market research and consulting firmRHK provides telecommunications market analysis addressing North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and other international markets. Specializes in the analysis of advanced technologies for the public telecommunications network.

JD Power & Associates

http://www.jdpower.com/

JD Power & Associates provides free access to part of its market research online. Contains annual award reports for the automotive, telecommunications, credit card, and travel industries, and provides access to a searchable database of statistical and descriptive excerpts from its annual studies.

Telecommunications Industry Association

http://www.tiaonline.org/tools/

TIA provides a member directory and industry news. Under the category "Popular Resources " and “ Telecom Industry Trade Statistics” provides an annual report which includes industry data and analysis.

TRADE

StatUsa
http://www.stat-usa.gov

Department of Commerce's Web site for business, economic, and trade information from the federal government. Statistical data series from many federal agencies are available, including releases on Gross Domestic Product, consumer prices, producer prices, exports and imports, international trade, employment and unemployment, housing and construction, manufacturing and industry, and monetary statistics

International Trade & Export Assistance- Tradeport
http://www.tradeport.org/

In addition to presenting country overviews, Country Library also covers market research and analysis of industrial sectors; trade and economic policies, such as regulations and standards; trends and outlooks; leading sectors for American exports and investments; trade barriers; financing operations; contacts; and travel and culture.

All kinds of trade information, including a glossary of trade terminology, import/export statistics. Click on the "market research library" for country and market reports from the extensive Buy USA database, a product of the US Commercial Service.

Office of Trade and Economic Analysis
http://www.ita.doc.gov/cgi-bin/otea_ctr?task=otea

Highlights from this site include sources of trade and other macroeconomic data, selected by the staff of the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis ; industry-by-industry overview of the U.S. economy with forecasts, available for purchase; over 100 tables of goods & services trade by country and region; statistics for more than 100 major manufacturing groups and products, including employment, wages, capital expenditures and trade; up-to-date U.S. exports, imports & trade balances for merchandise ( by country or sector); state export data for 1993-2000; and metropolitan area export data for over 250 U.S. cities for 1993-99 ; monthly trade update; US export – import to 25-50 major countries and products; U.S. trade in perspective and directory of state development agencies for trade and investment

Trade International Statistics

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/

This Census site has U.S. International Trade Statistics including Balance of Trade with various countries. Contains guides to various report series on import/export trade by commodities and product lines by SITC, SIC, and Harmonized codes between the USA and other countries. The site also has various current and historical releases, a digest of current trade numbers, foreign trade statistics by various commodity classifications, country balances and top trading partners, commodity and country detail for each state and historical trade balances going back as far as 1960

Trade Express

http://tse.export.gov/

A new, state-of-the-art Web tool for accessing U.S. merchandise trade statistics at both the national and state levels. Data on major geographic regions (e.g., Middle East) and trade preference regions (e.g., NAFTA) are pre-aggregated, permitting quick retrieval. The site allows also to narrow the export, import and trade balances to US-state; US-country: US-region; country –US state and US state-country data sets.

U S Government Regulation and Trade Resources

http://www.asil.org/resource/iel1.htm

The International Economic Law chapter of the ASIL Electronic Resource Guide for International Law (ERG) offers an overview of electronic resources in this dynamic and evolving area of law. The Chapter on U S Government Regulation and Trade Resources is extremely thorough.

Smart Pros

Corporate Information

AAAAgency Search.com / Directory/

Advertising Age / Data Center/

Report Gallery

Annual Report Service from Wall Street Journal

Investor Relations Information Network (IRIN)

Stock Selector

Type a ticker symbol in the box at the top right of the page; on following page, for analysts' projections, click "analysts" link. Scroll down to see the names of the analysts and their affiliated firms.

J D Power & Associates

Bank Rate Monitor

Bank Technology News

FRED

BankruptcyData

http://www.bankruptcydata.com/default.asp

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Best Practices LLC

SecInfo

Kipnotes

Business Week

BUSINESS BOOKS CORE COLLECTION

ALA's BRASS

LLRX

BUSINESS LIBRARIES

Columbia University, Business & Economics Library

BusinessFinance.com

Entrepreneur Magazine

Canadian Statistics

Canadian Public Companies

Harvard Business School Cases

Brint

Corporate Library

Caseplace

US Census of Agriculture

CITING RESOURCES

Chicago Style

Citing Electronic Resources

MLA Citation Style

CONTINGENCY ANALYSYS ( Risk Management)

COMMODITIES

Chicago Board of Trade

Chicago Merchantile Exchange

Ino

Turtle Trader

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE /Directory/

GOT COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

CORPORATE BLOGGING /CEO/

CEO COMPENSATION

Business.com

Europages –European Business Directory

Kompass

CORPORATE CULTURE

Vault

Consumer Information Center

Consumer Line

J D Power & Associates

Survey of Consumer Finances

Background Notes on Countries

Country Analysis Brief / from Energy Information Administration/

CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE REPORTS (CRS)

OANDA

Bank of Japan

Financial Times

FedStats

Infonation

Dissertation.com

Access the most powerful Free-To-Search database of scientific, technical, medical, and other scholarly content. Search through 20 million citations and 10 million abstracts from over 35,000 journals.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations

DICTIONARY

Investopaedia

MANA

E

EARNING ESTIMATES

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

World Economic Outlook Databases ( IMF)

Congressional Budget Office

Economic Report of the President (viaGPO)

The Conference Board ( US Composite Indexes)

MbendiAfropaedia

World Class Stock by Country

Type a ticker symbol in the box at the top right of the page; on following
page, for analysts' projections, click "analysts" link. Scroll down to see
the names of the analysts and their affiliated firms.