Guides -- Company Information - The Basics
Basic company information includes:
Company name(s)
Location
Corporate history
Corporate structure
Stock exchange and current stock price
Officers and executives
Number of employees
Products and services
Financial information: sales, profitability, and efficiency
Recent developments: products, services, and facilities
Standing in industry or field
Company Overviews
Marketline Business Information Centre (formerly Datamonitor
Company Profiles: Business description, history, major products and services, locations and subsidiaries, top competitors for 10,000 U.S. and international public and private companies; includes SWOT analysis for the top 1000 companies.
Factiva
The Company Quick Search tab provides US and international company overviews.
Hoover's Online
Hoover's company information includes a fact sheet, key people, products/operations, industry, competitors, and some basic financials.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Provides in-depth industry overviews for 52+ industries; key financial and competitive analysis of 7,000 public companies; and a directory of 100,000 public and private U.S. and international companies.
Newspapers, Journals, and Magazine Articles
ABI Inform
Locate citations,abstracts and full-text of articles in more than 1000 business and scholarly journals. Track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide.Business Source Premier
Locate articles from over 8,500 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. This includes the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and Administrative Science Quarterly.Factiva
The Search page gives you access to 9,000 publications from 118 countries, including major national and international newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times.
Annual Reports, SEC Filings, and Financials
Thomson ONE Banker
Locate and analyze U.S. and international public company financial information, including historical and current financial statements, stock prices, estimated earnings, deals, and more.
Analyst Reports
Investext Plus
Locate investment banking research reports on U.S. and international public companies and industries. Analysts reports are excellent sources of information for company financial and strategic profiles, estimated projected financials on companies and key competitors, industry trends and outlooks, and more.
Corporate Culture
Vault Reports
Includes industry, career and company guides. Vault provides access to insider company research, industry research and career advice.WetFeet
Includes company, industry or career related Insider Guides. WetFeet also provides access to company research, career research, industry research and career advice articles.
Have you scoured the company web site?
The company web site should be the first place you start your research. Annual reports, press releases, CEO statements, company history and job openings/descriptions are just a few pieces of key data that will be valuable to your research.
Looking for private company information?
Keep in mind that private company information is much more difficult to locate than public company information. The Private Companies Guide provides some good resources.
Prepping for an interview and not sure where to start?
Whether it's midnight and your interview is at 8 AM, or you're changing careers and starting to compile company lists... The Goizueta Business Library has a variety of resources to help in your job and internship searches!
Start with the Advance Your Career Guide that includes suggestions for guides, career prep shortcuts, and career reference books.
Mary Ellen Templeton, a former Goizueta business librarian, published Help! My Job Interview is Tomorrow. Copies of the second edition, which include helpful research worksheets and resource lists, are available for use in the business library - CAREER REF HF 5381.T26 1997.
Also, take a look at the resources listed at Careers - The Basics and at Industry Information - The Basics.
