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MBA 562 Introduction to Business Analytics: Communicating with Data

This resource guide has been created by Becky Smith for MBA562

Articles & News

Business Source Ultimate

Provides bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 and full text journal articles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. The database full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

In particular, Broadcast News - Multichannel News may be a good periodical to search within Business Source Ultimate.  

ProQuest One Business

Provides access to a mixture of practical and theoretical business content including company, industry, and country reports, scholarly journals and ebooks, videos, dissertations, newspapers, and more.

Nexis Uni

Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Includes current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, and more.

From the home page, select "Find A Company." 

Enter the company's name and hit enter. 

Click on the company you're searching for. 

This is the dossier report. Find information in the tabs under Overview. 

Company and industry SWOT analyses are found under Industry Knowledge. 

NewsBank/Access World News

Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper. 

Engineering Village 

Provides access to bibliographic databases of engineering research literature as well as to patents, standards and handbooks (Compendex, US Patents, Inspec, EP Patents, NTIS, WO Patents, GEOBASE, and GeoRef)

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Grainger Engineering Library Information Center's STEM Entrepreneurship & Business Services can assist you in getting started with these and other resources.  If you have any questions, please e-mail bis@library.illinois.edu