Archive for November, 2008

Business students making a difference

From the UAB Reporter (11/24/08): Freshman teach elementary Dollars and Sense lessons The School of Business and Junior Achievement are providing finance-literacy lessons to area grade-schoolers, giving UAB students an opportunity to better understand economic and financial principles. Dollars and Sense is a first-year Freshman Learning Community (FLC) course. UAB students visit Epic and Glen [...]


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Need help researching a company?

This new research guide, Guide to Researching Companies and Industries, contains basic sources to help you get started with your company and industry research.  It includes both print and electronic materials.  All of the web sites, databases and documents are hot-linked directly from this PDF.  Just click on the link and you will be taken to [...]


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WB’s Crisis Talk tackles world financial crisis

Take a look Crisis Talk, the latest place for information on the world financial crisis from the World Bank.  The World Bank writes of the blog: Crisis Talk aims to provide the latest information on the unfolding financial crisis, both on specific countries and sectors, as well as on the global crisis response. The blog [...]


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New Marketing Research Guide

Do you want to become a marketing guru like Seth Godin?  Good news!  I’ve created a new Marketing Research guide that should be very handy and can help you on your way.  It includes sections in finding demographics, market share and industry data.  It also includes links to all of the marketing course specific handouts [...]


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Citing your Sources

With the semester coming to a close, many students have asked for help preparing their citations.  We have great research guide that will help with this: Citing Your Sources.  It includes many citation formats, including MLA, APA and Chicago.    Looking for the proper way to cite a Sterne Library database?  Try the University of British Columbia’s MLA Business Citation [...]


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