ACCOUNTING
US governmental sites
US Organizations
Standards
International
Comprehensive, or meta, sites
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BUSINESS ETHICS
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E-COMMERCE
Comprehensive, or 'meta', sites
Dictionaries, encyclopedias ...
Statistics
- ClickZ Stats: a "source for interactive
and Internet research. Facts, figures, research, and data on every facet of the online industry,
domestic and worldwide."
- Global Internet Statistics:
number of people online globally by language.
- iMedia Connection--Research
& Metrics: although this publisher's website won't exactly give you stats, it does have
informative articles about the process of collecting web stats, and its many difficulties.
- Internet World Statistics: "up to date
free worldwide Internet Usage, the Population Statistics and Market Data, for over 233
countries and world regions".
- InternetStats: a directory portal to business and
marketing statistics services' websites.
- Nielsen
NetRatings: although most of Nielsen's stuff is fee-based, they do offer a few free data.
B2B (Business-to-business)
Governmental sites
Online publications: these are just of few of those 'out there' ...
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ECONOMICS
Comprehensive, or 'meta', sites
US governmental sites
International organizations
Research organizations, or 'Think Tanks'. Not comprehensive ...
Time series data
- Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page (Ted Bos,
University of Alabama at Birmingham).
*** START here: the SEARCH function is great. ***
Note: data is "as is", and does not include any documentation. Go to the data's original
provider for documentation. Also, copying and pasting is not possible due to extra characters. Sigh ...
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Employment and
unemployment, productivity, wages, employment costs; producer and consumer price indices.
Includes Historical Employment Data from the "A"
Tables of the Current Population Survey.
- Current Industrial Reports (US Census Bureau).
Production and shipment statistics on selected products. Most of these series only go back to the
late 1980's or early 1990's online, but farther back in time in print.
Note: this link takes you directly to an index of products.
- Economic Policy Institute's DataZone Current labor market,
family income, price, wage, GDP, foreign trade, and federal deficit data.
- FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN).
Contains international time-series statistics on food; e.g. production, fertilizer and pesticides,
land use, forest and fishery products, and agricultural machinery.
- Federal Reserve Board of Governors Statistics.
Commercial paper, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, industrial production and capacity
utilization.
- FRED (Federal Reserve Board of St. Louis). Current and
historical U.S. economic and financial data.
- Global Financial Data Sample Series This is a
commercial site that offers a few free sample series as teasers. But what teasers they are: selected
stock indices back to 1800; gold and silver prices back to 1718; corn, cotton and wheat prices back
to the 1780's; consumer price indices and inflation rates (US, Japan and Germany back to 1820's,
France back to 1840's, and England back to 1264!!) Wow ...
- NBER Macrohistory
Database 3500 historical time series, mostly pre-1950s.
- NNDC Climate Data Online
Historic weather data from the National Climatic Data Center of the NOAA. (Free access to data for
'.edu' domain names.)
- Penn World Tables (U. of Toronto).
International demographic and economic statistics from 1950-1992.
- UNESCO Statistics International statistics on education,
culture and communication.
- U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Economics and
Statistics System
Working papers
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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FINANCE:
COMPANIES & MARKETS
Comprehensive, or 'meta', sites
Dictionaries, etc.
Evaluation of stock and financial web sites
Company stock research sites: There are many commercial providers of financial and investment
information. These are only a sample, but all include a good amount of "free" market information; e.g.
current stock quotes, stock indices, market and company news. Sites with strengths in particular areas
are noted.
- Bloomberg.com: Good for business
news. This site also has many calculators
(e.g. for car loans, mortgages, insurance, currency exchange, investments ...).
- Hoover's: A good site for looking up directory and
overview type information on both private companies and public; the amount of content for a company
varies (e.g. for public companies, also includes SEC EDGAR filings). Marquette also has a subscription
to some of their content--if you're off-campus, use this link: Hoover's Premium.
- MSN Money--Investing: Lots of
information and lots of possibilities for manipulating data, but requires lots of clicking to find it
all. A Forbes' Favorite.
- Reuters Investing
- Yahoo! Finance--Stock Research Center: has a stock screener, etc.
Corporate culture:
- QuintCareers: an
interesting article about corporate culture from a job and careers information site.
- Vault.com: On the publicly accessible site, there isn't
much. However, the MU Career Services Center provides a subscription to it! Click here
to login (Marquette users only), then find the
homepage for the company of interest, and go to the company message board.
Company directory sites: These sites offer limited information on companies, usually only
products or services, location and contact information. They do not usually distinguish between public
and private companies.
American Depositary Receipts
- ADR.com (from JP Morgan) Site requires you to acknowledge their
disclaimer before entering. Sigh ...
Bonds
Historical stock quotes and charts
- BigCharts Has quotes back to 1988. The provider of
charting for many other sites.
- Nightly Business Report - Financial Tools.
Has up to a decade ofhistorical quotes in chart format for
both individual stocks and for indices.
- Yahoo! Finance: Historical Quotes. Seems to go
back to 1962 for some stocks. Provides the choice of daily, weekly, or monthly quotes plus
dividends, and allows downloads in spreadsheet format.
Initial Public Offerings
Mutual funds
Lists
- Forbes' lists (500, Platinum 400, 500 largest private
companies, 200 best small companies, international 800, etc. Can be displayed alphabetically, or by
several other variables.)
- Fortune's lists (100, 500, Global 500, e-50,
etc.)
- Industry Week Rankings
(includes: 100 best-managed companies, IW 1000, best plants, etc.)
- Standard
& Poor's Indices (US and global; e.g. S&P 100, S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400,
S&P SmallCap 600 ...) For each index, look for the 'Constituent List' link to see the names
of the companies in the index.
US governmental sites
Exchanges
CEO salaries
Currency exchange rates
Socially responsible investing
Publications
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Comprehensive, or meta, sites: these sites are mostly collections of links on the
topic, but some also have explanatory material as well.
Dictionaries
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Online magazines
- HR Magazine. The journal of the Society for
Human Resource Management. Only a few of the articles are free online, a subscription is required
for the rest. Still, you see the table of contents, and the site has some other free material
available.
- Workforce Online. Again, you can't
read the actual magazine articles online without a subscription, you can see the table of contents.
US and WI governmental agency sites
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Major laws
Job Analysis
- CMQOnline (Common Metric Questionnaire). A commercial source
for job analysis tools. They tout themselves as an alternative to O*NET (see below). Includes a free
demo of their system, explanations for why you should do job analysis, and a calculator for estimating the costs of an
EEO lawsuit.
- Job Analysis. Department of
Labor description of job analysis, contains a link to a job analysis worksheet.
- Job-Analysis.net. (Part of the HR-Guide.com
'ring' of web sites).
- Job Analysis Resources from
Robert J. Harvey at Virginia Tech. Includes links to parts of O*NET that can be difficult to find,
and to CMQOnline, his company. (It sells the standardized
job analysis instrument he developed, the Common Metric Questionnaire.)
- O*NET OnLine This is the successor to the
Department of Labor's old Dictionary of Occupational Titles. Use it to find data on job
characteristics and worker attributes. It includes information on the knowledge, skills, abilities,
interests, preparation, contexts, and tasks associated with 1,122 O* NET occupations. Click here for information from
the Department of Labor about O*NET.
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Performance Appraisal: Look also under this heading in some of the meta sites above, in particular HRZone
and Employer-Employee.com.
- Introduction [to] Performance
Appraisal (from Archer North & Associates). This is from the web site of a
commercial consulting company, but their intro to this topic is very interesting! Covers issues such
as the purposes, methods, and benefits of performance appraisal; and looks at such problem areas as
reward issues, conflict and confrontation, common mistakes, and bias effects. An interesting
read.
Compensation: Benefits & Wages
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Diversity, equal employment, and affirmative action<
Disclaimer: there is a huge amount of material available on each of these topics and several
related ones; the links below are only a small sample of what is 'out there'. Look also under these
headings in the links provided by the meta sites and at some of the governmental agency sites above. Looking at the EEOC
web site is a must.
Emotional intelligence
- Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in
Organizations Founded in 1996, this non-profit "aids the advancement of research and practice
related to emotional intelligence in organizations". Specifically, it supports projects based on
aspects of the work of Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Working with
Emotional Intelligence.
- Emotional Intelligence Homepage (aka EQ International; by
Steve Hein et al.) Although this site is not attractively laid-out, nonetheless there is some good
content on it. In particular see the entries under 'definition/history of EI intelligence' and
'business issues'.
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Generational differences
- Beloit College Mindset List. The purpose
of this list is to help the faculty and staff of Beloit College to remember "that the world view of
today's new college students is significantly different from the intellectual framework of those
atudents who entered only a few years earlier". The lists are fun to read, and are "an alert for
those of us who may be suffering from hardening of the references."
- Generations at Work. This is the site of
consultant Claire Raines, however, there is a fair amount of free content available. Look at the FAQ page and the Articles.
- Winning the Talent Wars
Newsletter from RainmakerThinking, Inc. Although extremely brief and sometimes overly
simplistic, and promoting the consulting services, these newsletter 'articles' can be interesting.
Unions
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Benchmarking: There aren't many sites that have free material on
benchmarking--more are fee-for-service only.
Organizations/Miscellaneous
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INDUSTRY
- 1992 Economic Census (US Census Bureau)
- 1997 Economic Census (US Census Bureau)
- 2002 Economic Census (US Census Bureau)
- About.com Industry Interesting commercial
site with web links, news and analysis on industries ranging from advertising to health care to
wireless. Also has shopping and chat, sigh ...
- Census of Agriculture (USDA)
- Current Industrial Reports (US Census Bureau)
Production and shipment statistics on selected products and industries. Some are broad categories such
as "Aerospace industry" and "Major household appliances", others are very specific products, such as
"Confectionery", "Flat glass", and "Vending machines"
Note: This link takes you directly to an index of products.
- EPA Sector Notebooks Contain comprehensive industry
environmental profiles, industrial process information, pollution prevention techniques, pollutant
release data, and regulatory requirements.
Note: Most require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Industry Profiles: US
Business Reporter. A commercial site with nice 2-3 page industry analyses.
- International Trade Data System:
Industry Profiles (US Dept. of Treasury) Dated, and in-depth, profiles of 21 industries: autos,
chemicals, computers, cosmetics, dairy, food & beverage, forestry, fruit & vegetables, grain,
livestock, oil, paper, pharmaceuticals, seafood, steel, sugar, textiles.
- Metal Prices in the United States
through 1998 (USGS) Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Small Business Advancement
National Center Industry Profiles. Most of these profiles date from the late 1980's and early
1990's, but still have useful background information. Some profiles are on very narrow and specific
industries.
- STAT-USA (US Dept. of Commerce. Parts are
available to MarquetteNet users only) A wonderful resource. State of the Nation focuses on
domestic information, and Globus & NTDB focuses on international information.
- Trade Development Industry Programs (US
Dept of Commerce, Int'l Trade Administration) Not an easy site to use (too many links to other parts
of the ITA, with lots of page format changes), but has useful data.
- UNIDO Reference Information
Although buried several screens in, there is industrial manufacturing data (at the 3-digit ISIC level)
by country.
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