Library Resources for Summer Internship Success

As you head off to your internship this summer, remember your librarians are here all summer and happy to help you with research recommendations and search strategies for your projects. You can get started with our internship toolkit. Remember that due to Emory’s database licensing agreements you cannot use library databases at your internship.  Be Read More …

Congrats Graduates! GBS Alumni Library Resources

Your Goizueta Business Library has a variety of resources available to Goizueta graduates for lifelong learning and professional development. Alumni Toolkit— Start here! The toolkit features a variety of Emory library resources and services available to you. Along with resources that Goizueta Business Library has licensed, you may also have access to free public library Read More …

Interested in learning R, Tableau, or ArcGIS? Check out ECDS’ On-Demand Courses.

Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) offers a variety of asynchronous and self-paced classes on topics including coding and text analysis. Take a Course Enroll in as many courses as you like. You can skip or repeat any lesson, depending on your own interest and availability. Start here. Get a Refresher Want to learn a Read More …

Researching Foundations and Grantmakers with Foundation Directory: Career and Professional Development Research Tip

How will this help me?  Foundation Directory  helps answer the question “Who is giving money to non-profits, and how much?” It does this by providing information on U.S. grantmakers and their global philanthropic activities. Foundation Directory includes descriptions of more than 100,000 Community Foundations, Corporate Giving Programs, Operating Foundations, Private Grantmaking Foundations (independent and company-sponsored Read More …

This Day in Business History: Microsoft Releases Windows 3.1

April 6, 1992: This updated version of Windows established some features that are taken for granted today.  This includes the CTRL-ALT-DEL command to avoid rebooting your computer, and allowing you to cut and paste from one application to another.   As internet access moved forward, Windows 3.1 also supported modem speeds up to 9600 bps. To Read More …

Search Company News by Sentiment with Nexis Uni: Career and Professional Development Research Tip

 How will this help me?  Do you want to identify a company’s challenges, such as mismanagement, lawsuits or layoffs?  Applying Nexis Uni’s negative news filter to searches allows you to efficiently locate a firm or its leadership’s negative press coverage. In addition to applying the negative news filter, you can target your results to specific sources Read More …

GBS Students – Register for Free Remote Access to Bloomberg Certifications

Bloomberg offers three different certification programs for Goizueta students: Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC), Environmental Sustainability Governance (ESG), and Finance Fundamentals (BFF). All certifications are self paced and generally take between 7 and 10.5 hours to complete. You must register with the class code,  and complete all of the classes  for a certification between now and Read More …

This Day in Business History: Word’s First Internet Domain Is Registered

March 15, 1985:  The world’s first internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corporation of Massachusetts. The international private non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers  was created in 1998 to maintain domain name coordination; there are now  over 1 billion domains in existence.      Signposts in cyberspace the Domain Read More …

Find Companies with US and Global Locations: Career and Professional Development Research Tip

How will this help me?  Uniworld’s multinational company database lets you create custom lists of domestic and international firms in over 200 countries and 20,000 industries.  You can filter by country, region, state, industry and revenue and download results to excel. When creating a target list of companies as part of your career research, Uniworld Read More …

This Day in Business History: Facebook Is Founded

Feb 4, 2004: Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launch Facebook.  By December 2004, 1M people were using Facebook.  The social media network now has 1.49 billion daily active users on Facebook on average for September 2018.       Becoming Facebook : the 10 challenges that Read More …