Search GoinGlobal to identify firms who have sponsored H1Bs

GoinGlobal enables you to search for companies that have applied to sponsor H1B visas in the last 10+ years based on data from the US Department of Labor, and download up to 200 firms from your search.  It also provides career guides for countries and cities you may be considering. GoinGlobal also includes the wage Read More …

This Day in Business History: Apple Inc. Is Founded By Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

April 1, 1976: College dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computers, Inc. The two wanted to make computers small enough for people to have in their homes and offices. Ever wondered how they came up with the company name? According to an interview that Wozniak did with Byte magazine in December 1984, he credited Jobs with Read More …

This Day in Business History: Starbucks opens its first doors in Seattle

March 30, 1971: Well before Howard Schultz walked into the picture, a small coffee shop with a name inspired by Moby Dick opened its doors in Seattle’s Pike Place Market for the first time. What started as a humble coffee shop has boomed since then into a monolithic organization which leads the industry. Today, it Read More …

Career Research Tip: Business Source Complete for Industry Trends

Ebsco’s Business Source Complete (BSC) includes thousands of business magazines and journals, focused on areas such as marketing, management, operations, finance, accounting, and more. These sources will help you gain historical and forward-looking company, industry and market insights, which are valuable when conducting credible and competitive career and job research. By keeping informed about industry Read More …

Career Research Tip: Build Target Lists with AtoZdatabases

AtoZdatabases: Target Company Lists enables you to build custom searches from millions of U.S. business records using criteria including geography, industry, revenue, employee count and then download results in Excel. For career research, it’s generally best to select the 65 million businesses and executives, and choose “get started.” A unique feature in AtoZ is the Read More …

Can I find my class textbooks in the library’s collection?

The cost of annually purchasing updated editions of textbooks is prohibitive and would divert dollars from licensing new databases and other important resources.  Emory Library’s Affordable Textbook and Teaching Materials Initiative includes more information for both students and faculty, including the Course Reserves FLIP Lending Library. For BBAs: the BBA Book Fund offers financial support for course materials; reach out Read More …

GBL Shorts: Library Questionary with Ama Ampadu-Fofie

Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Questionert has nothing on the business librarians when it comes to asking just the right questions to learn things about our Goizueta community that we never knew before! We are continuing our video series, GBL Shorts: Library Questionary with Goizueta’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Ama Ampadu-Fofie. Take a look!

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 …

Career Research Tip: Foundation Directory for Researching Grantmakers

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 philanthropic activities. Search by companies, grantmakers, grants and 990 filings.  Foundation Directory includes descriptions of more than 100,000 Community Foundations, Corporate Giving Programs, Operating Foundations, Private Grantmaking Foundations (independent Read More …