For those of you wanting to get a head start on Week 5, I have linked the Class PowerPoint below. It is short but covers the basics you’ll need to know. Week Five PowerPoint We will cover a number of resources including ABI/INFORM Complete, Business Source Premier and LexisNexis. Although we’ve talked about the last [...]
We had another great turnout yesterday for week four of the Business Research Certificate program. This week’s topic was International Research. We built on material covered in the previous 2 classes. We also talked about typical types of information you’ll need to find when conducting international research, such as: Country background – history, legal & [...]
We had over 30 students turn out for week three of the Business Research Certificate Program. We talked about and explored a variety of print and electronic sources for finding industry information. I have linked to the handouts below: Lecture handout In-class exercises There were a few additional handouts in class that cannot be posted [...]
I have linked to the Week Three PowerPoint Slide below in case anyone wants to print the materials before class this afternoon. Week Three PowerPoint Slides I will post the full class materials following class this afternoon.
We had over 30 students attend week two, including ALL students that came to week one. We covered basic company research-finding company info, financials, history, market share, etc.-using a variety of sources. In case you missed it, below are most of the handouts (as PDFs) from class. Brief Lecture PowerPoint Class outline and in-class exercise [...]
Despite the snow and ice yesterday afternoon, we finished our first week of the Sterne Library’s Business Research Certificate Program. I like to make the handouts / slides available to you so here they are: PowerPoint Slides Research Worksheet Research Process Outline This week we covered some of the basics of business research: getting started, [...]