Subject: Business
Help & FAQs:
FAQs -- Frequently Asked Questions for Business Research
Please see this blog for more current discussion of business research resources...
http://businessresearchstuff.blogspot.com/
Also, for an annotated list of business-related web sites, see this del.icio.us account (updated often):
http://del.icio.us/marcylibrarian
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April 12, 2007
I need to do a SWOT analysis for a company. Where can I find some examples?
One option is the database "MarketLine Business Information Centre" (Datamonitor). Do a quick company search using the search box on the main page. Or, go to the "companies" tab and browse for companies by industry or alphabetically. When you pull up a company, look at the left-hand column under Table of Contents -- not all but many of the company reports will have a SWOT analysis included.
Even if the company you are researching does not have a SWOT analysis, you may want to look at a SWOT analysis for a different company in the same industry.
Where can I find information on the non-profit sector as a whole?
For summary statistics on the Nonprofit Sector as a whole, try the web site for the National Center for Charitable Statistics: http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/FAQ/index.php?category=31
On their home page, they provide a link to summary statistics from the upcoming 2007 version of the Nonprofit Almanac. (Example: 1.4 million nonprofit organizations registered with the IRS – breakdown by public charities, public foundations, and other organizations…) There is other data to explore here as well.
Also check out the Independent Sector (they co-author the almanac): http://www.independentsector.org/
There is a lot of authoritative information here – for example, from the tab “Research”, see the links under “free research publications”.
For specific segments of the nonprofit sector, you will likely need to use a variety of different resources – this depends on the segment (e.g, health, environment, social issues, etc.) that you are researching…
And don’t forget to look at books available at the library. From the USF library catalog, search on “nonprofit” as a subject term. There are over 800 titles, in reverse chronological order. If you click on the location, you can see if a book is checked out. For books at the Tampa library, you can also request these to be sent to you at the St Petersburg library through ILL (inter-library loan). This process usually takes 2-5 days.
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January 24, 2007
Where do I find company workplace rankings?
Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to work for in America (general ranking and individual rankings for women, minorities, etc.)
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2007/
and the organization behind this list and other lists:
http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best/index.php
Also, more specific company workplace rankings for Hispanics and African Americans:
http://www.blackenterprise.com/Aboutusopen.asp?id=1692
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=25161
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January 19, 2007
I need a few good web sites on workplace diversity...
http://www.ethnicmajority.com/corporate_diversity.htm
From the organization “EthnicMajority”. Section on “Corporate Culture and Diversity” includes a list of companies with diversity Web sites; statistics on workplace diversity; and a list of other relevant web sites.
“Responsible Shopper” profiles hundreds of companies on socially responsible dimensions. Profiles may include one or more of the following areas: workplace conditions, employee diversity, executive compensation, environmental initiatives, community involvement, corporate ethics, and charitable giving.
http://www.diversityworld.com/Diversity/index.htm
“Workforce Diversity” is from Diversity World. Beyond the advertising, there are also useful collections of relevant links by topical grouping.
http://www.conference-board.org/knowledge/diversity.cfm
The "diversity" section of the Conference Board organizations' public web site includes notices about conferences and recent research. Type "diversity" in the search box at the top left -- the results screen is sorted by type of document -- under "other", notice the examples of company diversity reports. ALSO, to access the many "members only" research reports and publications, access the Conference Board database instead through the USF Libraries databases.
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