LibGuides: BUS 215: Principles of Management: Find Business Data &amp; News

Best Places to Start

You'll need these resources for multiple assignments throughout the term:

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Helpful for gathering news and history of companies and their leadership, as well as SWOT analyses, financial data and more.
Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Contains basic public and private company profiles. Includes recent financial information, subsidiaries, key competitors, and executive profiles. Also has First Research industry profiles for more than 1000 industry segments, Key Business Ratios, job search information, and more.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Coverage of United States government publications and government documents, case law, legal journals and more.
CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window
Use Credo to find background information on your company's history and the people associated with your company.
Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Includes business research with interactive tools and in-depth analysis of the history, performance, and opportunities of thousands of companies and industries. You’ll find information on market, research, investment and financial reports, SWOT analyses, and articles from magazines and industry journals.

Yahoo! Finance
Provides financial data, news and more.

Building Org Charts

Mergent Intellect (listed above) has some information on executive leadership for companies. Also check the website for the company you are researching. Another resource is Org.com, which provides crowdsourced org charts for companies:

TheOrg.com
A crowd-sourced list of org charts for different companies. They start with publicly available information and then employees at the listed company can add/correct entries. As such, the charts may be incomplete, but can be used in conjunction with other sources to build a fuller picture of the company's org chart.

Tutorials to Help You Use Databases

Using Business Source Complete (7 min.) Using Mergent (9 min.)