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Best Databases for Management- Operations, Quantitative, & Strategic

ABI/Inform Global
Business Source Premier


Library Databases
Internet Resources
Quick Studies

Library Databases

ABI/Inform Global

The premier business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and the world. Find research on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.

Business & Industry News

B&I is a broad-based business information database. It is international in scope and covers important facts and figures, and events occurring in all manufacturing and service industries.  Information is selected from over 1,000 leading US and international trade journals, general business publications, newsletters, and national, and regional newspapers covering events and news from more than 190 countries around the world.  Approximately 60% of the references include the full text of the articles.

Business Source Premier

Provided through EBSCO's EBSCOhost web search interface. A database of news covering international business, economics, management, operations, finance, and accounting. The database contains full text format for over 740 titles including  Business Week, American Banker, Forbes, Fortune, and The Economist.

BUBL Link

A UK-based national information service that offers fast, easy-to-use and reliable access to selected Internet resources and services of academic relevance.

The Business Search Engine

Business-focused search engine and directory containing more than 400,000 listings within 65,000 industry, product and service subcategories. Resources include: News of the day and News by industry; Job search info; People info including biographies and employment history.

HBS Working Knowledge

A web portal that features business and management information, resources, and data reflecting the intellectual capital of HBS and industry leaders worldwide.

Knowledge@Wharton

Knowledge@Wharton is a bi-weekly online resource that offers the latest business insights, information and research from a variety of sources.

Factiva

Business news and articles, current company and stock information, and the Wall Street Journal full-text.

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Internet Resources

Bschool.com - Marr/Kirkwood Official Guide to Business Schools Web Sites

This site contains reviews of business school web sites according to a defined criteria.  Also available here is a table comparing several published lists of ranked business school programs. United States and International schools are listed.  A bibliography of articles on business schools is also available.

Business Researcher's Interests

This site is an excellent resource for in-depth business questions and for self-education about the hottest topics in business. Having received a host of excellent reviews in the mainline business press, it provides access to hundreds of full-text papers, magazines and journals; case studies; and thousands of other resources of business interest.

Yahoo Business Schools

At this Yahoo business site, business schools worldwide are listed. This list links to business institutes as well as the business programs of major academic universities.  Some of these links (the bold-face ones) go to yet another Yahoo index while others go directly to the institution's business school homepage.

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Quick Studies

Balanced Scorecard
Change Management
Supply Chain Management
Value Chain Management
Six Sigma
Value-Based Pricing

 

Last update: March 10, 2008

Prepared by: Hal P. Kirkwood Jr. kirkwood@purdue.edu