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 …
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 …
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!
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 …
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 …
March 14, 1927: Initially designed to be just an air mail and passenger service operation between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba, Pan Am grew to be one of the most influential and innovative airline companies of the twentieth century. Within the same year of its launch as a mail carrier, the company was selected Read More …
Since 2017, SBRnet, publisher of the Sports Market Analytics Database, has been conducting its proprietary consumer sports fan study twice yearly. These consumer surveys are conducted online among a representative panel of U.S. consumers ages 13 or older. Each respondent reports on their sports fan behaviors across specific professional and college sports during the previous Read More …
March 1, 1873: While the history of the development of the typewriter dates back to the 16th century, in the U.S., production on one of the first commercially made typewriters began on March 1, 1873 by E. Remington & Sons, known for manufacturing sewing machines. Initially marketed under the name Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer for the Read More …
February 22, 1878: The first F.W. Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1878 in Utica, NY. Marketed as “Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store” it had a less than stellar beginning and the store soon closed. Frank brought his brother, Charles Sumner Woolworth, into the business and the next store, located Read More …
FactSet has add a rolling one year plus year-to-date ESG data to its academic platform. The source of the data is Truvalue Labs, a FactSet Company, which applies AI to quantify Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data found in over 100,000 unstructured text sources including news, trade journals, NGO, and industry reports. The ESG Ranks Read More …
