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Business Subject Guide
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This is a guide to finding selected
Business resources in the Galvin Library. For more in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or click here to Ask a
Librarian.
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Subject Specialist:
Pattie Piotrowski
email: piotrowski@iit.edu
phone: 312.567.3386
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Company Information |
Market Information | Marketing & Advertising |
Research & Consulting Firms | Entrepreneurial Education | General Education
Company Information
Thomas Register
US & Canadian, public & private companies
KomPass
non-US companies
OneSource
US and Public Companies
Corporate Information
Commerce Library
Market Information
US Census
The Economic Census can be helpful, import/export figures, etc. can be found there
US Census Manufacturing and Construction Section
Home of current industrial reports. Categories are broad, but very detailed
information can be found within.
Fedstats
A govenrment statistics portal. Includes information from over 100 agencies
University of Michigan's Document Library
Economic Census Industry Series Manufacturing Page
Reports listed by first 4 digits of NAICS code
Census Statistical Abstracts
US Census Trade and Service Publication
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/business.html
US Business Reporter
Marketing & Advertising
Ad Critic
Huge searchable archive of ads, including many classics. Most are TV ads, but some radio and print ads are also returned when you search on a brand or product. Separate categories for SuperBowl ads, award-winning ads, most popular ads.
** Contact Prof. Mueller for sign-in.
Ad Flip
Searchable archive of classic print ads. Includes ads from many decades.
**Contact Prof. Mueller for sign-in.
Advertising Education Foundation
Click the Awards link (in the Exhibits section) to find award-winning, viewable ads from U.S. and around the world: Clio (best TV ads), Effie (most effective ads – along with effectiveness case studies), Radio Mercury (best radio ads), Good/Bad/Ugly (portrayal of women (positive and negative) in advertising), ANA (best multicultural ads). In addition, the site also offers viewable TV ads from the Ad Council (public service ads) and the Partnership for a Drug Free America.
Ad Week
Go to the “Best Spots” tab to see highly rated current ads. This site has information on a wide variety of ads, but only those currently rated “Best Spots” are viewable.
Very Funny Ads
Recent ads deemed funny, sexy, controversial, etc. Many ads from around the world. Many ads that could never be shown in the U.S.
SuperBowl Ads
Current and classic SuperBowl ads.
Research
and Consulting Firms
Great places to look up press releases!
Cahner's In-Stat Group
Gartner Group
Jupiter Research
Yankee Group
Business Communication Company
Entrepreneurial
Education
Center for
Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearing House on Entrepreneurial Education
This site provides a
searchable database that contains abstracts of material on entrepreneurial
education at all levels. A link page houses a collection of organizations
dealing with entrepreneurship & entrepreneurial education.
Free publications are available that range from areas of entrepreneurial
development and success stories to home-based business.
National Foundation
for Teaching Entrepreneurship
International nonprofit
organization that introduces low-income and at-risk young people
to the world of business and entrepreneurship by teaching them
how to develop and operate their businesses
Center for Entrepreneurial
Studies at Stanford University
Provides information on Academic Programs, Research, Field Projects, and Conferences.
The Street.com
It has mostly Fortune 500 news, but also lists IPOs
ENTERWeb: The Enterprise Development Website
An annotated list of
resources on a range of enterprise development topics for enterprise
development practitioners, policy makers, academics, students and
small business owners. Sites are listed in over 20 topical categories
including entrepreneurship, management and women and are available
geographically or via an alphabetical index.
Mutual Fund Fact Book
The Fact Book contains
two sections: text and data. Provides background information
on how funds operate, how funds are regulated under federal law,
and who owns funds. The data section consists of seven subsections
that provide various perspectives on fund assets, the number of
funds, shareholder transactions, and fund accounts.
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