Having trouble logging into WSJ.com? It may be time to re-activate your account!

To ensure that folks using WSJ.com with an Emory.edu email are, in fact, still current students, staff, or faculty, WSJ requires users to re-activate accounts each year. If you try to login to WSJ, and it’s acting like you don’t have a subscription, it may be time to re-activate! Follow these simple steps to resume Read More …

Using S&P NetAdvantage to Screen for Companies, including PE/VC and Private

You can use S&P’s Screening option to create targeted lists of different company and investment types. For example, to identify a list of PE/VC companies in Atlanta, follow these steps: Click Screening tab at top of page Click Company Screening Look to far right upper part of the screen – click “Go to old Screen Read More …

Becoming a Pitchbook Pro: Pitchbook Expands Certification Courses

Pitchbook, the go-to database for VC and PE deals, continues to add content to Pitchbook Pioneer, its learning platform. Certification Courses Pitchbook Collage Ambassador Foundations Certification – covers the basics of navigating Pitchbook, conducting market analysis and gathering industry intelligence, deal sourcing and creating curated lists of target companies, deal execution by comparing companies and Read More …

Find Sports Fan Data in Sports Marketing Analytics Database

SBRnet’s Sports Marketing Analytics database is a rich source of sports fan data, with information from approximately 6700 U.S. sports. The results measure the habits and behaviors of sports fans for 19 separate sports across 68 categories. To access the sports fan data, click Premium at the top of the page. FAN STUDIES Gathered twice Read More …

FactSet Financial Platform: New Registration Process

FactSet, a financial analysis platform, recently changed its registration process. If you currently have a FactSet username/password – you will need to update your account information. You can no longer use the FactSet.net email that you were initially assigned by FactSet. Please review this handout for the details. Please reach out to gbsaskalibrarian [at] emory Read More …

Patent Racism: Unseen Hands That Stifled Black Innovation in Modern History

Lisa D. Cook, a Professor of Economics and International Relations at Michigan State University has conducted influential research on the connections between violence, economic activity, and racial disparities. In 2014, she published “Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940,” which revealed how political conflict and domestic terrorism negatively affected the ability Read More …