Best Collections of Specialized Business Resources
[Accounting, Auditing, Taxation] [Advertising]
[Business Ethics] [Business Law] [Economics]
[Electronic Commerce] [Entrepreneurship]
[Finance]
[Government] [Human Resource
Management]
[International Business] [Management
Information Systems]
[Marketing] [Operations
Research/Management Science]
[Organizational Behavior] [Strategy] [Other--General Resources]
[Best Sites Lists]
Accounting,
Auditing, Taxation (also see Finance)
The
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has a very well
organized and comprehensive site at www.aicpa.org
.
The Internal Revenue Service
makes available most of the forms, publications, and other tax information
you'd want--see www.irs.ustreas.gov/. The IRS has finally placed the search
tool for forms and publications right on their home page.
The "Cyber-Accountant"
site provides practice management aids, and even takes questions and posts
answers at www.cyber-cpa.com
A well-organized list of tax
sites can be found at Dennis Schmidt's www.taxsites.com
Will Yancy of Texas Christian
University has an extensive set of resources at www.willyancey.com
Advertising (also
see Marketing)
At
U.T. Austin, the advertising department has an Ultimate Marketing
Communications Directory at advertising.utexas.edu/world/.
This directory is unfortunately organized alphabetically, but is very comprehensive
(both broad and deep).
Professor Mike Walsh provided a comprehensive list of
advertising sites: Advertising Age: www.adage.com,
The Advertising Council: www.adcouncil.org,
Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF): www.aef.com,
Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) www.arfsite.org,
Adweek www.adweek.com, American Association
of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) www.aaaa.org,
American Business Media (ABM) www.americanbusinessmedia.com,
Association of National Advertisers (ANA): www.ana.net,
Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau (CAB) http://www.onetvworld.org/,
International Advertising Association (IAA) http://www.iaaglobal.org,
Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) www.iab.net,
Mediaweek www.mediaweek.com, National
Association of Broadcasters (NAB) www.nab.org
Here
at Pitt there is a list of Business Ethics issues, facts, and figures
world-wide at www.pitt.edu/~ethics
Loyola Marymount's Center for Ethics and Business is a very popular site with high production values, available at www.ethicsandbusiness.org
Business Law (also see
Government)
The
American Bar Association provides "Law Link," a comprehensive set of law
research links (including legislative, executive, and judiciary branches of
government, and a collection of other law research links) at www.lawtechnology.org/lawlink/home.html
Catalaw calls itself the
"Grand Central Legal Station" on the Internet, available at www.catalaw.com/.
The
The University of Pittsburgh Law
School has a "Jurist" site covering legal education, available at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/ .
A
very thorough collection is maintained by
The Federal Reserve Board offers
a "Beige Book" that provides extensive commentary on current economic
conditions, available at http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/BeigeBook/1999/.
The Census Bureau has useful
census data at www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbnew.htm
l and an "Economic Clock" at www.census.gov/econ/www/, including
topics that are economy-wide as well as industry-specific.
Professor Robert Atkin recommends
the Dismal Scientist at https://www.economy.com/a/ds_sub_form.asp
. Here’s what he says: “Full access
requires subscription, but if what you are interested in is a daily update of
major economic releases from a wide variety of countries -- free with your
midmorning coffee -- this is really useful.”
A
popular site shows "How the Internet Works" at http://www.icehousedesigns.com/internet/basics.php3
While many tutorials are
technical, a good e-commerce tutorial focuses on more strategic issues at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/e-business/tutorials/tutorial3.html
The Library of Congress provides
a good, solid set of Internet resources at www.loc.gov/rr/business/ecommerce/inet-business.html
A list of all Internet Service
Providers is available at thelist.com.
The U.S. Government has a
centralized set of resources for Electronic Commerce policy, including various
white papers on E-Commerce at http://www.ecommerce.gov/
Internet Marketing is covered at wdfm.com/ (Larry Chase's Web Digest for
Marketers). This will give you a biweekly e-mail subscription to the
newsletter.
The "
"Bobby" is a free
service that provides tools and ideas for making your web pages accessible to
those with disabilities. See http://www.cast.org/bobby/
The
Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence site: http://64.226.232.47/sbdc/links.php is an excellent
resource for entrepreneurs. It lists local, regional and national resources
available for entrepreneurs.
A
great deal of patent information is available, but only to subscribers as of
June 1, at Delphion's site www.delphion.com. The two million patents
in the database span 26 years.
Finance (also see
Accounting, Economics)
Professor
Kuldeep Shastri here at Pitt has an excellent compilation of markets, quotes,
and companies. His site includes most of the links shown here.(www.pitt.edu/~ks112354/exch.html
).
The
American Association of Individual Investors has over 400 links to
Investment Web Sites, with ratings, at
http://www.aaii.com/specialfeat/sitechart.shtml. Besides rating the sites,
they also tell you the primary focus, cost, and securities covered at each
site. Very thorough!
The Journal of Finance has
an outstanding list of sites at http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/overview.htm.
Go past the academic lists and you'll find collections such as those about the
Finance profession, asset pricing, investments, microstructure, derivatives,
corporate finance and governance, institutions, software and data, links of
interest to students, etc., even "Top ten lies Finance professors tell
their students!"
Both NASDAQ (www.nasdaq.com) and the New York Stock
Exchange ( www.nyse.com) have extensive
sites.
Reuters (www.reuters.com) provides a thorough set of
news and other business information.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) provides access to rules, gives explanations, allows Edgar
searching at www.sec.gov . (Edgar provides
free access to all filings of publicly-held
According to Professor Robert
Atkin, Bigcharts.com provides excellent interactive graphics regarding stock
prices and various technical tools-- at http://www.bigcharts.com
The Wall Street Journal
has a heavily-traveled site at www.wsj.com
(now integrating its Interactive Edition)
Government (also
see Human Resource Management)
A
highly rated ("four star site") at
Fedworld is a list of sites
sponsored by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), which provides
an all-too-rare, added bonus: valuable commentary about what the sites contain.
The list is available at www.fedworld.gov.
The General Printing Office has a
comprehensive collection to support browsing resources such as the Federal Register,
the budget of the
The Thomas (as in Thomas
Jefferson) site gives access to legislation, congressional activity, and
historical documents at thomas.loc.gov/
The Department of Commerce
provides access to information about trade, the economy, exports, minority
hiring, the environment, patents and trademarks, technology, and even federal
job openings at www.doc.gov
Human Resource Management
(also see Government)
The
Society for Human Resource Management has a Yahoo-Style set of links at www.shrm.org/hrlinks
-- the list is organized well and has outstanding breadth and depth.
Cornell's
The Department of Labor has
compiled resources about pensions, minimum wage laws, grants and contract,
etc., as well as databases, at www.dol.gov.
Equal employment information is available from the EEOC at www.eeoc.gov . National Labor Relations Board
decisions are reviewed at www.nlrb.gov.
OSHA covers safety and health
information at www.osha.gov.
Right
here at the
An
attractive and thorough site has been assembled by the Michigan State
University CIBER. Named "Global
Edge" this site is available at http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp
UNC
Charlotte has a site called "Virtual International Business and Economic
Sources" (VIBES), which has over 1,300 links to Global, Regional, and
National resources. It is available at http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/vibehome.htm
Thunderbird
has a large collection at http://www.t-bird.edu/about_us/campus_resources/lib_ibic/
Management Information
Systems
Academic
resources are available at AIS and ISWORLD NET web sites. The sites can be
found at www.aisnet.org and www.isworld.org, respectively. Currently I
am the editor of the latter.
If you ever hear any jargon, you
can clear up the confusion at the "Whatis" site, found at http://whatis.techtarget.com/
The Association of Information
Technology Professionals (formerly DPMA) at www.aitp.org
and the Society for Information Management (SIM) at www.simnet.org provide a great deal of
practitioner resources.
The "Information Technology
Toolbox" is available at www.ittoolbox.com/,
and has a wealth of resources that are on the technical side.
Even more solidly on the
technical side is a site called Extreme Programming (XP), at www.extremeprogramming.org/
Sites that are devoted to
information systems for securities and financial applications are the
Securities Industry Association (www.sia.com),
SWIFT (www.swift.com), and STP Info (www.stpinfo.com).
American
Marketing Association at www.ama.org has an extensive list of resources
for academics and practitioners.
A direct marketer called Volition
has a fairly big list of resources at www.volition.com/market.html.
Professor Walsh has provided the following sites:
·
Brandweek
Magazine at www.brandweek.com (articles),
·
Business
Marketing Association www.marketing.org (news, events, and
articles), and
·
Mediapost
at http://www.mediapost.com/ (various
marketing articles culled from the trade press).
Operations
Research/Management Science
The
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) has an
extensive set of resources at http://www.informs.org/Resources/
.
Patrick
Duparcq at
The Strategic Management
Society's site is at www.smsweb.org/.
Consulting companies have useful
sites, too, filled with strategy articles. See the resources from McKinsey at www.mckinseyquarterly.com and Booz
Allen & Hamilton at www.bah.com.
The Society of Competitive
Intelligence Professionals can be found at www.scip.org
According to Professor John
Prescott, The American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC.org) is a great source for knowledge
management and benchmarking.
If you are mystified by any particular statistical
techniques, there is an excellent site at http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/examples/ that provides
data sets and control files to run statistical analysis using popular software
(SPSS and SAS are but two of the large number of choices). What is interesting
is that examples from popular textbooks are shown with the commands necessary
to obtain the analyses.
Some of the best (and most expensive) resources are
FREE to our students at http://www.library.pitt.edu
. Our students are able to find a staggering amount of resources, as the Pitt
Digital Library is among the leading edge of universities worldwide. While free,
most of these require you to be on site here, dialed in to Pitt, or making use
of Stargate’s services in conjunction with the University.
·
Our business librarians have a site at http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/business/business.html
. Don’t miss the extremely useful “Guide
for Company and Industry Research” at http://www.library.pitt.edu/guides/business/
·
Business Source Premier can be found through the
library home page or http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/bus_src.html
·
Infotrac can give you quick statistics about a firm
at http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/upitt_main?db=BCRC
·
Doing heavy-duty research?
o Need to find
something related to psychology? Psych Info is at http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/psycinfo.html
o Need a doctoral
dissertation? See http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/digital_diss.html
. They are indexed since 1861! Full text on some (since 1997).
o A huge database
including science, engineering, medicine, arts can be found at: http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/academ_search.html
o Need to find a
book? See if we have it in “Pittcat” http://www.library.pitt.edu/books/pittcat.html
·
Looking for a newspaper article? Go to the database at http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/news_src.html
·
Looking for an article in a journal but you don’t know
exactly where to find it? Go to “Jake”
at http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/jake.html
·
Need to find all articles that cite a particular
source? The Web of Science (including Science, Social Science, Arts, and
Humanities from 1992 on) is at http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/webofscience.html
Infospace offers access to
companies’ addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, and web sites at www.infospace.com
The New York Times (registration
required but free) has an extensive business section at www.nytimes.com
There is a "College News Online" site that
includes "Top Online Student Newspapers, Index of Colleges &
Universities, Financial Aid, Graduate Programs, Careers and Employment
Resources, Internships, Research, Student Chat Rooms," and more. At www.collegenews.com.
Last but not least, you have
partial access to Dow Jones Interactive, now called Factiva.com, but many resources require
subscription. A user ID and password is required to access the full site. The
site includes:
- 6,000 newswires, newspapers, magazines, and trade
journals
- a list of web sites selected by Dow-Jones, including
news sites, non-English language sites, regional sites, reference sites,
and industry-specific sites
- a service that automatically sends you news clippings
based on topics, key words, or phrases
- reports on companies, industries, countries, and markets
- histories of securities, dividends, and exchange rates
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