July 31, 1912: Milton Friedman is born in Brooklyn, NY. Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, is best known for his scholarship on the free market economy and monetary policy, namely the quantity theory of money which states that the amount of money in circulation has a direct and proportional relationship to prices. Sources: Milton Friedman: A Read More …
The Goizueta Business Library licenses several Wall Street financial platforms: Bloomberg, LSEG EIKON, FactSet, and Pitchbook. Each offers various options for learning to use the platform, understanding more about topics (e.g. equities, fixed income) and most include courses for which you can earn certificates. Below is relevant information and links for each platform Bloomberg Bloomberg Read More …
How will this help me? LinkedIn Learning offers many online courses and certificates focused on maximizing excel. Quickly brush up on your technical skills with classes such as Excel Boot Camp. You may also take a multi-hour certification program to expand your knowledge further and demonstrate your expertise, such as Cert Prep: Excel Expert. LinkedIn Read More …
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 …
July 23, 1903: The freshly incorporated Ford Motor Company sells its very first Model A, ushering in a new era of transportation for Americans. Having spent nearly all of its initial cash investment of $28,000 prior to its first sale, in less than two months, the company profited $37,000. Source: Ford Motor Company Website Read Read More …
July 20, 1841: On this date, Lewis Tappan founded The Mercantile Agency to collect business information such as sales estimates and bill paying ability. In 1859, the company was sold to Robert Graham Dun and incorporated under a new name, R. G. Dun & Company. And in 1933, Dun & Co. merged with Bradstreet Company, a Read More …
July 17, 1955: On a sunny Anaheim, California Sunday afternoon, Walt Disney opens his first theme park, Disneyland. Offering 5 theme lands with 18 attractions, the park took more than twenty years to plan and cost $17 million to build. Disney’s financial advisers were skeptical of his plan, suggesting that it would be a disaster, but Read More …
How will this help me? AtoZdatabases: Target Company Lists enables you to build custom company lists from millions of U.S. business records using criteria including geography, industry, revenue, employee count and then download results in Excel to customize further as part of your job or internship search. For career focused target lists, it’s generally best Read More …
July 2, 1962: Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas at the age of 44. Sam Walton was no stranger to retail by this time. He worked for the J.C. Penney Company after college, which at that time was a relatively small retailer. After serving in World War II, where he was captain of Read More …
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 …
