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General Business & Management

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General Business Reference Sources

Business Letters by Write Express (Write Express)
Whether you're trying to motivate a sales force or writing a letter of recommendation, Write Express provides tips and sample letters.

BuzzWhack (Information Please)
BuzzWhack says it's "dedicated to de-mystifying buzzwords" and does a great job of it. If you're trying to decipher unfamiliar business jargon, this is the site for you.

EH.Net Encyclopedia (Economic History Association)
This online encyclopedia includes lengthy articles on topics in economics and business history, written by experts in the field (the site has an editorial board).

Infoplease Business & Finance (WalstonOne Communications)
Use this site to find information in these categories: business, economy, personal finance, consumer resources, taxes, financial glossary, financial calculators.

Researching Companies Online (Debbie Flanagan)
A tutorial for finding various types of company information.

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes are often helpful when using company or industry directories. Search by code number or keyword or use the NAICS and SIC Correspondence Tables to find the appropriate classification codes.

Business Terms Glossary (Washington Post)
Look up definitions for business, management and finance terms.

Associations

Academy of Management
This professional organization of management scholars publishes the Academy of Management Journal, Review and Executive as well as sponsoring conferences and workshops.

American Management Association
This organization publishes practitioner-oriented journals and books and offers numerous educational opportunities to business professionals to develop and enhance their management skills.

Associations Unlimited (Gale Group) UWW access only
Search by keyword, subject or location for information on 158,000 national, international, regional, state, and local associations including business and trade associations.

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People in Business

Biographies Plus Illustrated (WilsonWeb) UWW access only
Searches the fulltext of 108,000 biographies of notable people worldwide. Includes 30,000 photographs.

LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) UWW access only
Choose Reference, then Biographical Information to search for news and information on people from directories, newspapers, and newswires.

Biography.com (A&E Television Networks)
Search for biographies of 25,000 notable people.

Business Biographies (Infoplease.com)
Find short biographies of business leaders -- or search the main Biography section to find 30,000 biographies from all the Infoplease almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Worldwide Directory of Finance Faculty (Ohio State Univ. Dept. of Finance)
A searchable directory of 3,300 finance academics and professionals.

Business Schools & Business School Rankings

Business Schools, Departments, and Programs (Yahoo!)
Link to US & international MBA programs and business schools.

B-Schools (Business Week)
Business Week has rankings of MBA programs as well as information on getting into b-school.

Best Graduate Schools: Business Rankings, Tools and Articles (US News & World Report)
Find the best MBA programs by specialty, by full-time or part-time.

Best Undergraduate Business Programs (US News & World Report)
Find rankings of the best undergraduate business programs by specialty.

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Company Rankings

National | International | Wisconsin

National

Forbes 400 Best Big Companies (Forbes Magazine)
Largest U.S companies ranked by market value, assets, sales and profits.

Forbes Lists(Forbes Magazine)
Largest companies, best companies, small companies, big companies, global companies, richest people in America. Find all the Forbes rankings here

Inc 500 (Inc. Magazine)
Fastest growing private companies in the US

List of Lists (Special Issues)
Links to lists available on the Internet in the form of rankings of different people, organizations, companies, etc.

Research by Industry (Yahoo!)
Find the top US public companies in various industries.

International

Global 1000 (Business Week)
Interactive scoreboard lets you rank the world's largest 1000 companies (based on market capitalization) by various financial ratios.

Global Outsourcing 100 (International Association of Outsourcing Professionals)
2006 marks the first year of the Global Outsouring 100, a list of the world's top outsourcing service providers. Unlike most "top" lists, this one is based on some quantitative measures as well as qualitative measures, making it somewhat subjective.

List of Lists (Special Issues)
Links to lists available on the Internet in the form of rankings of different people, organizations, companies, etc.

Top 200 Emerging-Market Companies (Business Week)
Top companies in the emerging market economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

World's 2000 Largest Companies (Forbes Magazine)
Find the world's largest companies ranked by sales and listed by country, industry and company name. Web site includes rankings from previous years.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin State Journal Book of Business (Wisconsin State Journal)
Find all publicly traded companies with headquarters in Wisconsin, or the largest companies in Dane County, or the largest realtors, law firms, printers or insurance agencies. The "top" lists are all here in the Book of Business.

Future 50: Fast-Growing Businesses (Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce)
Top Wisconsin companies in terms of growth potential.

Largest Employers, Wisconsin (America's Career InfoNet)
Find the largest Wisconsin-based companies ranked by employment.

30 Largest Employers in the Green Bay Area (Green Bay Chamber of Commerce)
Find the top industries and largest employers near Green Bay.

Wisconsin's Large Employer Search (Wisconsin's WORKnet)
Find rankings of the largest company and government employers in Wisconsin (regardless of where the company is based).

Wisconsin 75 (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Deloitte & Touche puts together these annual rankings of the largest closely-held companies in Wisconsin, formerly done by Arthur Andersen.

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Company Directories (Basic Company Facts)

Corporate Affiliations (National Register Publishing) UWW access only
Search for companies by name, industry, geography or size. Includes 174,000 US and international parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions - all the way down to the seventh level of reporting relationships.  All domestic and foreign subsidiaries are included.

LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) UWW access only
Choose Business, then Company Profiles to search for millions of US, international, public and private companies.

Advertising Redbooks (National Register Publishing) UWW access only
Search by brand name or company name. Serves as a directory of major US companies (large advertisers) as well as a directory of advertising agencies. Provides basic company information such as web page address, SIC codes, sales figures, year founded, key personnel and a list of company brands.

Corporate ResourceNet (EBSCOhost) UWW access only
Find 10-15 page profiles of major US and international companies.

Corporate Information (Wright Investors' Services)
This site searches a variety of online directories for more than 20,000 company profiles worldwide. Registration is required.

EdgarScan (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Find important facts about publicly-traded companies from their filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the 10-K is the annual report to the SEC).

Europages: The European Business Directory (Euredit S.A.)
Search for information on 500,000 companies in 33 European countries.

Hoover's Online
Find company descriptions and top competitors. Features marked with quot;lock" icon require a subscription, but some basic data on Hoover's is free.

Kompass.com
Addresses and phone numbers of 1.6 million companies in more than 70 countries.

Switchboard.com
Online yellow pages for millions of US companies.

ThomasNet (Thomas Register of American Manufacturers)
Search the directory of 170,000 US manufacturers by state, product, brand or company name.

Yahoo! Companies
Links to company home pages arranged by industry. Use the ticker symbol lookup and then select profile to find information on publicly-traded companies.

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Industry Information: Multiple Industries

Current Industrial Reports (US Census Bureau)
Short descriptive summary and detailed current production figures for more than 80 industries.

IndustryLink
Grouped by industry, this directory offers links to and short descriptions of industry information sources such as trade associations and industry consultants.

Reuters Investor Industries
Provides a list of competitors within an industry.

Yahoo's Industry News
Find current news articles grouped by industry.

Yahoo's Research by Industry
Provides a list of competitors within an industry.

Industry Information: Specific Industries

Go to Industry Analysis on the Marketing page for links to information about specific industries.

Business Articles and News

ABI/Inform Complete (ProQuest)  UWW access only  ABI/INFORM Guide
Consists of ABI/INFORM Global, Trade & Industry, and Dateline and indexes more than 4975 business publications. Many international resources are included and coverage is global in scope.

Business & Industry (FirstSearch: 1994- ) UWW access only
Contains important facts, figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. B&I focuses on a body of literature that includes leading trade magazines, newsletters, the general business press and international business dailies. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.

Business Dateline (FirstSearch: 1985- ) UWW access only
The prime place to search for regional business news in the US and Canada. Includes searchable fulltext articles from more than 500 North American regional businesstabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, and news wire services. This database covers regional business activities and trends with particular emphasis on economic conditions in selected cities, states, or regions, as well as mergers, acquisitions, company executives, new products, and competitive intelligence. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.

Business Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1982- ) UWW access only
Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 345 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the partial/full text of over 160 of those periodicals. Partial/full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost) UWW access only
Provides comprehensive access to abstracts and indexing for over 1500 titles, plus searchable full text for more than 750 business periodicals.

LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) UWW access only
Choose News or Business to search for news and articles about companies from business magazines, industry trade journals, newspapers and newswires.

ProQuest Newspapers (ProQuest) UWW access only
Full text articles and citations from more than 500 US and foreign newspapers including Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Madison Capital Times, Wisconsin State Journal, and Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Tablebase (RDS) UWW access only
restricted to 2 users at a time
TableBase is a database comprised of tables providing information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics. Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports.

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Government Business Information

Comprehensive Sites | Specific Topics-Federal | Wisconsin Government

Comprehensive Sites

Fedstats: The Gateway to Statistics From Over 100 US Federal Agencies
Search statistics from more than 70 US Government agencies.

USA.gov: Your First Click to the US Government
A gateway to government information.

Statistical Abstract of the United States (US Census Bureau)
Compiles data from federal agencies and departments. Includes some regional and foreign statistics. PDF Files are available from 1995 - present.

Specific Topics - Federal Government

Bureau of Economic Analysis (US Dept. of Commerce)
Economic accounts information by the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Dept. of Labor)
Statistics such as CPI, International Labor Statistics, PPI, Employment Cost Index.

County and City Data Book (US Census Bureau)
Population and housing data for US counties, cities with population of 25,000 or more, and places with more population of 2,500 or more.

County Business Patterns (US Census Bureau)
Economic data by industry and county.

FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Find information on banking regulation as well as a directory of all US banks regulated by the FDIC.

Federal Trade Commission
Information on federal consumer protection and antitrust laws.

FRED II: Economic Data (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Historical time series data for the US economy which includes daily US interest rates, CPI, PPI, GDP, monetary data, exchange rates, balance of payments and more.

Internal Revenue Service
All you need to know about federal income taxes.

US Business Advisor (US Small Business Administration) Offers one-stop shopping for entrepreneurs seeking to finance and start a business.

US Census Bureau
Find data on the economy, business, population, housing, labor & employment.

US Department of Commerce
Information on business development, economic analysis, patents & trademarks, international trade and more.

Wisconsin

Business Services (State of Wisconsin)
Everything you need to know about doing business in Wisconsin.

E-Journals

Articles in Journals, Magazines and Newspapers (UW-W Library)
See Electronic Journals for UW-W Library journals subscribed to in electronic format.
See Journal Holdings in Electronic and Print for all UW-W Library journals (whether in print, electronic format or accessed via aggregator databases like EBSCOhost).

Business & Your Money (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online)
The Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee (American City Business Journals)

View the table of contents and full text of the following journals via Business Source Elite (UWW access only):

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