X515: Consulting Academy Intensive Week #1
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Background/Overviews on Business and Management Topics
- Oxford Handbooks Online: Business and Management
- The complete texts of the Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management
- Blackwell Reference Online
- A collection of over 300 E-reference books in the humanities and social sciences.
Business and Management E-Book Collections
- Safari Business Books Online
- Current collection of 500 e-books in business and related fields from a variety of business publishers.
Software Manuals and User Guides
- Books24x7 ITPro
- Full-text database containing electronic versions of 2000+ IT professional and technical books from 80+ publishers.
Citation Style Guides
- APA (American Psychological Association) Style: A Quick Guide
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- MLA (Modern Language Association) Style: A Quick Guide
Consulting Associations
- Association of Managment Consulting Firms (AMCF)
- Publishes a useful benchmarking tool called Operating Ratios for Management Consulting Firms: A Resource for Benchmarking.
- Institute of Management Consultants U.S. (IMC US)
- For consultants interested in careers as sole practitioners, IMC US sponsors workshops, seminars, and conferences. Includes a directory of consultants, articles, papers and the current issue of the IMC Times.
- Management Consultancies Association (MCA)
- The primary professional association for consultants in the UK. The Web site includes a statement of best practices for the profession, a career guide, and back issues of a report on the industry in the U.K. (current issue available for a fee).
Key Trade Journals
- Consultant News
- Newsletter tracks the management consulting industry. Contains valuable rankings and trends in the profession. The "In the News" column tracks the 40 largest management consulting firms.
- Consulting Magazine
- Geared toward management consultants; articles cover innovative ideas, business strategies, client performance, career options, and guidance.
- Consulting to Management
- Formerly called the Journal of Management Consulting. Although this publication has ceased, it is good for historical articles.
- McKinsey Quarterly
- Topics include business strategy, technology, finance, and management. Articles are written by current and former McKinsey consultants and draw from contemporary client research. The journal publishes four standard issues and two themed feature issues per year.
- Outlook Online
- A publication of Accenture.
- Strategy+Business
- The publication of Booz Allen Hamilton. The web site includes the full text of articles and special features such as RSS feeds.
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Key Resources
- Business Source Premier
- Citations, summaries, and full text of articles from academic journals, magazines, and trade publications. Also includes current company, industry and region reports.
- Frost & Sullivan Growth Partnership Services
- Reports covering technology and market trends in various technology, energy and manufacturing related fields.
- Hoover's Online
- Covers public, private, and international companies. Includes overviews, major industry trends, industry links, and IPO information.
- LexisNexisAcademic
- Includes newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts. Offers international resources in several languages. The legal component includes federal and state case law, statutes, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials. Company Profiles (under Business heading) provide access to company-specific information, including bankruptcy reports and executive compensation information.
Additional Resources
- Company Research Guide
- Industry Research Guide
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Key Resources
- Business Insights
- Global marketing reports from the energy, consumer goods, finance, healthcare and technology industries.
- GMID: Global Market Information Database
- In-depth reports on consumer, industrial, and service markets around the world, searchable by industry, country, consumer, company, and geographic region.
- MarketLine Business Information Center
- Formerly DataMonitor. Original industry and company reports based on published research and primary and secondary data sources.
- MarketResearch.com
- Reports from several market research firms are available covering health care, consumer goods, publishing, manufacturing and other markets and industries.
- Mintel Reports
- Consumer market studies by Mintel analysts.
Additional Resources
- Marketing Research Guide
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- Investext Plus
- A collection of company and industry research. Reports include information on trends in earnings, stock performance, product positioning, segment sales and sometimes market share.
- Mergent Online
- Database of corporate information covering over 22,000 US and foreign public companies.
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
- Detailed descriptions of companies, industries, and mutual funds.
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- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Various statistics and reports on labor related topics such as business cost, salary and wages, employee benefits, and occupational outlook and projections
- Simply Map
- Web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data.
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Demographic characteristics, total population, social, and economic census data for the U.S. and international locations. Useful in determining market size. To generate data by subject, ethnic groups, or geographical locations use the Data Sets.
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- ABI/INFORM Complete
- Provides in-depth coverage of business and management issues (includes over 2,000 titles fulltext).
- Business Source Premier
- Regional, national and international business, financial, banking and industry publications (includes over 2,300 titles fulltext).
- Factiva
- General news and business information. International newswires and pictures, TV and radio transcripts. Company search for competitors, comparisons, SEC documents.
- RDS Business Reference Suite
- Index of 1,400 leading worldwide business sources, plus tens of thousands of tables with strategic data.
- Regional Business News
- Index of 1,400 leading worldwide business sources, plus tens of thousands of tables with strategic data.
- Wall Street Journal
- Provides business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns.
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Last updated by Steven Sowell on October 17, 2010
