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Career Advice for Entrepreneurs: Recent eBooks Added to GBL’s Overdrive Collection

            The Goizueta Business Library recently added two new ebooks to its Overdrive collection – both of which will be of interest for entrepreneurs, in fact all business students, looking to change their career paths. The titles are Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes (2004) and Making Transitions: Making the Read More …

Business Research Database Blog Series: BCC Research Reports

The Emory community has access to a wealth of business research databases. This series highlights many of these great resources, including content and the best applications for classes and career prep. What Will You Find? BCC Research Reports include multi-industry market research, covering topics from healthcare, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, plasticis, consumer, finance, VC, startups, and more. Read More …

Business Research Database Blog Series: Foundation Directory

The Emory community has access to a wealth of business research databases. This series highlights many of these great resources, including content and the best applications for classes and career prep. What Will You Find? Foundation Directory  helps answer the question “Who is giving money to non-profits, and how much?” IT does this by providing Read More …

GBS Students – Register for Free Remote Access to Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) Certification – 2023

BMC is a 10-hour, self-paced course that provides an interactive introduction to financial markets. Note: BMC is available for all current GBS students only. You must register and complete all of the BMC classes between now and graduation. If you don’t complete all of the classes and receive your certification by graduation, your registration and Read More …

Business Research Database Blog Series: GuideStar

The Emory community has access to a wealth of business research databases. This series highlights many of these great resources, including content and the best applications for classes and career prep. What Will You Find? GuideStar  helps answer the question “How are nonprofits spending their money?” It provides financial and organizational data for over 1.8M Read More …

EMIS Market Research Reports: New Filtering Options for a Better Search Experience

The EMIS database has long been our go to resource for substantive market research reports. Its collection of vendors and reports is ideal for locating important insights and data about global and country-specific industry market size, market share, market segmentation, and key companies. Over the winter break EMIS updated its search options, making it much Read More …

Advertising Insights is now Vivvix

If you use Kantar’s Advertising Insights to research U.S. advertising expenditures for companies and brands by channel (internet, TV, magazine, newspaper, radio, outdoor), this database is now rebranded as Vivvix. Vivvix has also been called Strategy and Ad$pender over the years, so update your bookmarks accordingly! The good news is, the interface is very similar Read More …

Overdrive app sunsetting, use Libby for business ebooks and audiobooks

If you’re a fan of OverDrive’s business ebooks and audiobooks, be sure that you have downloaded their new and improved app, Libby, to keep reading and listening. The OverDrive app will sunset in April 2023.  If you’re still using it, check out these FAQ’s about switching to the Libby app from Overdrive.  You may also watch Read More …

Pitchbook Emerging Spaces: Identify New and Disruptive Markets, Technologies, Products and Services

Did you know that Pitchbook uses algorithms to identify statistically significant spikes in emerging markets? Pitchbook’s analysts then dive deeper, looking for recent growth in popularity (i.e., what people are talking about, what investors are acting on) in spaces in which there was previously little or no activity prior to a growth period. The results Read More …