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Archive for January, 2009

Business Cluster Links, Winter quarter 2009

Friday, January 9th, 2009

The clusters are researching the U.S. automobile industry.  Here’s a few links that may help with the research.

Business Source Complete
Contains over 11,000 periodicals indexed and abstracted, with more than 10,000 full text, covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business, among others.

Lexis Nexis
The Business News and Industry News sections of Lexis offer fairly broad industry coverage.

Biz Wiki:  Automobile Industry Guide
Offers suggestions on specific resources for the automobile industry.

Biz Wiki:  Company Research Basics
Contains information about how to do company research, and recommends specific company resources to use.

Biz Wiki:  Industry Research Basics
Contains information about how to do company research, and recommends specific company resources to use

Attempting to understand the automobile bailout
Contains a small selection of links that help to understand the situation.

Regional Business Cluster presentation links

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Here are some links to some resources that I will be demonstrating to the Regional Business Cluster this evening.

American Factfinder
An excellent resource for population, housing, economic and demographic data.

Ohio County Profiles
Contains statistics for Ohio and its eighty-eight counties.

Economic Census
The Economic Census profiles American business every 5 years, from the national to the local level. The latest economic census was taken in 2002, and the data is still being released. The Economic Census will allow you to research the number of businesses in a particular industry
by state, county, city, or metro area.

Encylopedia of American Industries

An electronic business reference encyclopedia providing detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of broadly-defined industriesin every realm of American business.

Business Source Complete

Contains over 11,000 periodicals indexed and abstracted, with more than 10,000 full text, covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business, among others.

Lexis Nexis
The Business News and Industry News sections of Lexis offer fairly broad industry coverage.

Hoovers Online
Contains company, industry, and market information.

Mergent Online
Mergent Online contains global company information, annual reports, EDGAR filings, current news stories, and some industry reports.

Monday Night Update: Episode 1

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Welcome to the first episode of  Monday Night Update.  In this first episode, I talk about the purpose of the video series, give New Year’s wishes, mention a cool Google product, talk about the coolness of blogging, and state my personal goal of 2009.

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