J304: Honors Strategic Management
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Sources for Current Events:
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Provides access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Financial Times. |
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Provides access to Fortune, Fast Company, and Businessweek. |
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Sources for Company & Industry Information:
For your companies you will be able to rely heavily upon published data, including but not limited to: company websites, annual reports, 10K reports, proxy statements, newspaper/magazine articles, press releases, and investment analyst reports.
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Mergent Online is a library database that provides international public and private company information, including SEC filings, annual reports, and news. |
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Hoover's Online is a library database that provides international public and private company information and industry research, including financial data, press releases, and competitive landscape. |
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Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database Dun & Bradstreet is a fee-based directory of businesses in the U.S., Canada, & Mexico regardless of size. It also includes international businesses with $500,000+ sales or 20+ employees. |
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LexisNexis is a library database that provides access to over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. It also links to international public and private company information. |
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Passport GMID: Global Market Information Database Passport GMID is a library database that provides industry analysis and demographic, economic, and marketing statistics for 205 countries. |
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All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. |
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U.S. Economic Census: Industry Snapshots One-page reports provide selected statistics about industries and local business communities to illustrate the range of information available from the Economic Census. |
Sources for Analysis:
Target Consumer:
Demographics:
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American Factfinder provides population, housing, economic, and geographic data and maps for the United States and individual states, counties, and municipalities. |
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Proquest Statistical provides electronic access to tables and citations to statistics produced by the U.S. federal, state and local governments, international governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations. |
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WDI Online produced by the World Bank includes statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2000 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. |
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Expenditures/Needs:
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The Consumer Expenditure Survey consists of two surveys, the quarterly Interview Survey and the Diary Survey, that provide information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. |
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RDS Business Reference Suite includes full-text articles from trade and industry publications, regional, national and international newspapers, business dailies, and management journals. Use the TableBase feature to find data/statistics on consumer expenditures for various product categories. |
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The Survey of Consumer Finances 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. |
Lifestyle Factors:
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Marketresearch.com is a market research database that provides information on products, trends, regions, demographics, and companies. |
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Mintel Reports is a market research database with reports, news, and company information. NOTE: The first time you use the database you will need to create a company profile. |
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Passport GMID: Global Market Information Database Passport GMID provides demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries, as well as detailed income, expenditure and lifestyle statistics. Access 4500 consumer lifestyle reports. |
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Product/Service Market:
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Simply Map is a web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. NOTE: You will need to create an account (username and password) the first time you use this resource. |
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United Nations Statistical Division The United Nations Statistical Division compiles and disseminates global statistical information including economic, demographic, and social statistics. |
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The U.S. Population Projections provides projections for resident populations by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origins. |
Industry Trends:
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Factiva contains more than 25,000 sources including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and the Dow Jones and Reuters newswires. |
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MarketLine Business Information Center MarketLine company reports contain in-depth company information, including key executives and biographies, analysis, latest news, rankings, and financial deals. |
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Standard & Poor's Netadvantage Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage provides qualitative and quantitative research and analysis covering 55 industries. |
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Competitors:
Identification:
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Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database U.S. Public and Private Companies. Can search by geography, industry codes, size criteria and more. Click on "Advanced Search". Select desired field name and enter your criteria. Then hit "Add to Criteria" button. Continue adding all desired criteria, then click on "Run Search". Various output options. |
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International. Public and Private Companies. Can search by geography, size, industry codes, financial data and more. Select "Build A List" on the right and select desired criteria. |
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LexisNexis is international in scope and contains public and private company information, including contact information, recent stock activity, financials, executives, current news, and competitor lists. |
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Competitor Profiles/Reports & News:
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Business Source Premier contains full-text for more than 2,300 journals and company, country, industry, and market research reports. |
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Factiva contains more than 25,000 sources including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and the Dow Jones and Reuters newswires. |
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This resource is only available using Internet Explorer. ThomsonONE provides a collection of company information, reports, and financial statements for more than 70,000 public and private businesses worldwide. |
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