Business and Management

 

General Business

 

► Business Wire - Business Wire is the leading electronic disseminator of financial and product news releases, photos, advisories and features from large, medium and small companies and organizations worldwide.

► Company Profiles for Students - Excellent print reference source. This two volume set provides information on 280 contemporary public and private, domestic and foreign, companies. The historical events, people and strategies that shaped the companies are discussed, as well as stock performance, new product lines and management styles. REFERENCE COLLECTION HG 4057 .A27 1999 (Main Floor, Rice Library)

► EDGAR Database of Corporate Information - EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This site will allow you to retrieve publicly available filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission from January 1994 to the present.

► Forbes Annual Lists - For those interested in top business lists, Forbes magazine releases annual lists.

► Fortune 500 List - For those interested in top business lists, Fortune magazine releases an annual list, based on the performance of the previous year, of the largest corporations in America. This site contains a "super 100" list, based on an aggregate of sales, net profits, assets, and market value ranking.

► Hoover's Online - The searchable database contains "company capsules" on about 10,000 of the largest and fastest growing companies in the U.S. Each capsule includes a description of the company, address, officers, sales and employment figures, and hyperlinks to more information, like financial reports, stock quotes, SEC filings, and news searches. Other services here include access to a directory of more than 4,000 corporate Web sites.

► IRIN (Investor Relations Information Network) - The Investor Relations Information Network allows investors, shareholders, and money managers instant access to companies' annual reports, quarterlies, fact books and the latest new releases in their original format.

► PR Newswire - The leading sources of news from corporations worldwide for media, business, the financial community and the individual investor.

► Wall Street Research Net - Wall Street Research Net consists of more than 500,000 links to help professional and private investors perform fundamental research on actively traded companies and mutual funds and locate important economic data that moves markets.