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Archive for January, 2008

100 Best Companies to work for

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Fortune has published their 2008 list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.  The list can be sorted in a number of different ways.  Of particular interest is the sections for Women and Minorities.

Test post

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Just upgraded WordPress and did some other maintenance.  This is a test.

What dudes like to do

Friday, January 18th, 2008

AdvertisingAge has a nice list of things men do to pass the time.  The list is broken down into age categories, so it is very interesting to see how leisure habits change by age group.  Next month they will release a similar list for the leisure habits of women. 

Link via ResourceShelf.

Links for Regional Cluster Presentation

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

I have the pleasure of talking with some regional cluster students this evening.  Here are a few links that I will be discussing. 

The Innovation Center

Ohio University Small Business Development Center

  • Links to local outreach offices on the right side of page.

Small Business Development Centers of Ohio

National Business Incubation Association

Office of Policy Research and Strategic Planning

  • Provides links to Ohio County Profiles, County Indicators, and more data.
  • For other information, look at Demographics Resources in the Biz Wiki.

Alice

  • Good for books on your topic
  • Suggested keyword search terms
  • small business
  • small business development
  • New business enterprises
  • business incubat* or business and incubat*
  • Limit to your school

OhioLINK
extends your reach for resources

Business Source Complete

  • our most popular business database
  • a shotgun approach to business research
  • example search
  • Good for trade publications and journals, such as Small Business Economics

LexisNexis

  • Good for newspaper articles and more
  • also good for company information

Encyclopedia of Small Business

  • soon to be in InfoTree in the Small Business Section
  • for now, use the Alice URL

Business Plans Handbooks

  • go to Alice and do a title search for Business Plans Handbook
  • currently there is not a good way to search them all at once, but we’re looking into that

Forbe’s Best Big Companies in America

Monday, January 14th, 2008

America’s Best Big Companies

This is our 10th year of selecting the
400 Best Big Companies in America. Our methodology for choosing the
winners is so stringent that 165 companies from last year’s 400 did not
make the cut for 2008. Not only must companies pass our benchmarks for
financial growth rates and returns, but they must also meet our
approval for their corporate governance, accounting standards and
background checks.

The list can be sorted by name, 5-year total return, Net Income, and Industry.

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