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Financial Platforms: Training and Certifications

The Goizueta Business Library licenses several Wall Street financial platforms: Bloomberg, LSEG Workspace, 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 …

This Day in Business History: Bell Laboratories announced their experiment with “Picture Phone”

August 23, 1956: The “Picture Phone,” an experimental product from Bell Labs, sent picture along with sound over telephone lines. The 2”x3” screen allowed individuals to see each other talking. They let the public experiment with this product much later at the 1964 New York World’s Fair – with eight picture phones letting visitors call neighboring booths. Read More …

This Day in Business History: Best Buy Celebrates its Golden Anniversary

August 22, 1966: In St. Paul, Minnesota, a small store called Sound of Music opened its doors to customers in late August of 1966. Fifty years later, Best Buy (the company changed its name in 1983) is a multinational retailer with nearly $40 billion in annual revenue. Source: Company Website Read more from the Goizueta Read More …

LSEG Workspace’s Learning Centre

LSEG Workspace’s Learning Centre houses the following content: Guided Learning – Explore a curated selection of topics for the Investment Banking community, including Market Data, Asset Management, Wealth Management, and Risk & Compliance. This section includes both on-demand and instructor-led learning sessions. Enroll in Classes – Hundreds of live classes that you can register for; Read More …

Research Companies, Funds and Investors: Career and Professional Development Research Tip

How will this help me? PitchBook covers startups, VC and PE-backed companies, as well as mature private and public firms, investors, buyers, and funds. You can research and target firms by industry or vertical, as well as financing history. PitchBook’s lists are great for identifying both large and small competitors to firms – helpful for Read More …

This Day in Business History: Happy Birthday, Milton Friedman!

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 …

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 …

How to Find 10 Years of Public Company Financial Data

Many databases include historical financial data for companies; however, the number of years they cover varies. Some databases that used to provide a decade’s worth of revenue, income, and other data now only look back the last 3 to 5 years. We recommend the following three databases when you’re seeking 10 years of financial data: Standard Read More …

How to Reset Your Forgotten Password in PitchBook

If you forget your password and need to reset it in PitchBook, follow the steps below. If you need to create a PitchBook account, see this blog: Creating a New PitchBook Account. IMPORTANT: Do not use the “Recover your password” or “log in with SSO” options shown in error messages. To properly reset your password Read More …