| Key
Online Investigatory Resources |
- Best
Sites To Find Private Company Data: Companies
Online (a searchable database of company profiles on 100,000 public
and private companies); Corptech
(a searchable database of company profiles on 50,000 public and
private high tech companies); Hoover's
Online (10,000 company descriptions; 2500 detailed profiles);
Corporate
Information (an extensive directory of links for info on U.S.
and foreign companies); CorpOnline
(a directory of corporate information resources maintained by Professor
Larry Tomassini); Yahoo!
Company News;
- Public
Corporate Data: Dow
Jones Interactive Publishing (includes financial profiles, article
searches, quotes and market data, and a travel section); The
SEC EDGAR Database (official archive of SEC filings for US publicly
traded companies); FreeEdgar
(SEC Filings - better than the official archives); Federal
Filings Online; NASDAQ/AMEX;
Hoover's Online (10,000 company
descriptions; 2500 detailed profiles); Annual
Reports Library; Standard
& Poor's Retail Investor Services; Moody's
Investors Service; IPOCentral
(listings of upcoming IPOs and the performance of past ones); CompanySleuth
(free emailed reports on publicly held companies);
- Directories
of Corporate Web Sites: GSPublic
Company Websites (an directory of the web sites of all publicly
held companies); Directory
of links to US and foreign companies;
- General
Business Information: The
Thomas Register (The leading directory of American manufacturing companies);
Dun and Bradstreet;
Yahoo! Company News; Industry
Link (a directory of resources and websites organized by industrial
category); ProRequest Direct
(summaries of articles from over 5,000 publications, with many in
full text); BizTech
Research Library & Searchable Knowledge Map (access to hundreds
of full-text articles & papers, magazines & journals, case studies
and tools, and thousands of other resources); CNN
Financial Network; CNNfn
Stock Quotes; WSRN
(SEC documents, company reports and press releases on over 16,000
companies); StreetNet (Basic
research reports and quotes); PRNewswire;
Businesswire; The
Profound News database (market reports, briefs, and news databases);
- Trade
Associations: American
Society of Association Executives (links to over 1,200 association
sites); Greater Washington Society
of Association Executives; Chicago
Society of Association Executives (includes a membership directory);
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| International
Trade |
- General
Sites: NAFTAnet
Home Page; Asia Business Connection
(includes ads for sourcing or selling); University
of Michigan International Business Resources on the WWW (an excellent
collection of international trade related links); Global
Trade Center (A wealth of information about embassies, trade law,
trade statistics, shipping, travel, and more); Nijenrode
Business Resources (by the Nijenrode University of the Netherlands);
- Export
Assitance:
The U.S. Department of Commerce "Market Access and Compliance"
site (expertise on nearly 200 countries to help US businesses to overcome
barriers to international trade and investment); US
Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (country
and regional information for American exporters); Virtual
International Business and Economic Sources (over 1,300 links
to free Internet sources of international business and economic information);
http://www.exporthotline.com;
- Targeted
Sites: Netherlands Foreign Investment
Agency; Venture Web (for
those seeking Japanese contacts for exporting, importing, or joint
corporate ventures. Included are documents describing Japanese cultural
and business practices); The Irish
Trade Web; NewAsia-singapore
(jointly developed by Newsweek and Singapore); The
Polish Home Page; Czech Ministry
of Foreign Affairs; The American
Chamber of Commerce in Japan; The
Thailand Industrial Directory;
- Miscellaneous
Sites: Fast
Forward (free newsletter for those who plan and execute international
events); The Electronic Embassy
(information on all of the Foreign Embassies of Washington D.C.);
Info Site on the University
of Hawaii College of Business Administration China and Japan focused
MBA program; AT&T Language Line Service (call 1-800-628-8486
for personal, over the phone interpretation services, 24 hours a day,
7 days a week);
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