IMPORTANT WEB SITES FOR ZARB SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDENTS AND FACULTY
Business Planning
American Express Small Business Exchange http://home3.americanexpress.com/smallbusiness
Business Plan for Start Up Business
(Lansing Community College) http://www.nemononline.org/bus_plan
Dun & Bradstreet http://www.dnb.com/resources/menu.htm
Enterpreneurial Edge On Line http://www.edge.lowe.org
Files for Starting and Expanding a Business http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/shareware/sharopts.html
How to Build a Business Plan http://www.sbaonline.gov/starting/businessplan.html
Moneyhunter Business Template http://www.moneyhunter.com
Smart Business Supersite http://www.smartbiz.com
Competitor Analysis
Annual Report Gallery http://www.reportgallery.com
Bloomberg On Line http://www.bloomberg.com
Companies OnLine http://www.companiesonline.com
Daily Stocks http://www.dailystocks.com
Dow Jones via Smart Money http://www.smartmoney.com
Edgar http://www.sec.gov
EdgarOnLine http://www.edgar-online.com
Hoover's On Line http://www.hoovers.com
Investquest http://www.investquest.com
Morningstar http://www.morningstar.net
Search CNN Financial News http://search.cnnfn.com
Thomas Register http://www.thomasregister.com
Demographic Data
American Demographics http://www.demographics.com
CIA World Fact Book http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Demographics Journal http://www.amcity.com/journals/demographics
Fedstats http://www.fedstats.gov
Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca
STAT USA http://www.stat-usa.gov
U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov
Electronic Commerce Research
Cyberatlas http://www.cyberatlas.internet.com
Market Research on the Consumer OnLine Industry http://www.jup.com
Wilson Internet Service http://www.wilsonweb.com/webmarket
Financial Sites
Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/welcome.html
Daily Stocks http://www.dailystocks.com
Dow Jones Business Directory http://www.businessdirectory.dowjones.com
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation http://www.fdic.gov
Federal Reserve Board Market Rates http://www.ny.frb.org/pihome/statistics
Investor Guide http://www.investorguide.com
Merrill Lynch http://www.ml.com
MSN Money Central http://www.moneycentral.msn.com
Smart Money http://www.smartmoney.com
Stocks.com http://www.stocks.com
International Business
Biz.E.Mall (Australia trade links) http://www.bizemall.com.au
Central Europe Online http://www.centraleurope.com
Ernst & Young International: Doing Business In http://www.doingbusinessin.com
European Union Services and Information http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GSSI/eu.html#servers
Far Eastern Economic Review http://www.feer.com
Global Risk Assessment Inc. http://www.grai.com
International Labour Organization http://www.ilo.org
International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org
International Trade Centre http://www.intracen.org
Latin American Network Information Center http://www.lanic.utexas.edu
NAFTA NET http://www.nafta.net/
Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca
United Nations Statistical Division http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/main.htm
World Bank http://www.worldbank.org
Media Resources
Uncover Web http://www.carl.org
ABC News http://ABCnews.com
Advertising Age http://www.adage.com
American Demographics http://www.demographics.com
Business Week http://www.businessweek.com
California Management Review http://haas.berkeley.edu/News/cmr/index/html
CEO Express Megasite http://www.ceoexpress.com
CNN Financial Network http://www.cnnfn.com
E-Commerce News http://www.internetnews.com/ex-news
The Economist http://www.economist.com
Editor & Publisher Interactive http://www.mediainfo.com
Forbes http://www.forbes.com
Fortune http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune
Harvard Business Review http://hbsp.harvard.edu/products/hbr/index.html
Inc. Magazine http://www.inc.com
Information Please Almanac http://www.infoplease.com
Journal of Small Business Management http://www.wvu.edu/~colbe/research/bureau/jsbm.htm
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov
Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com
London Times http://www.the-times.co.uk
Long Range Planning http://www.elsevier.com
Mc Kinsey Quarterly http://www.mckinsey.com/pub/publications_quarterlyfr.html
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com
Newsweek International Business Research Center http://www.newsweek-int.com
Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com
Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com
Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com
Professional Associations
Academy of Management http://acm.pace.edu
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants http://www.aicpa.org
American Society for Quality http://www.asq.org
American Marketing Association http://www.ama.org
Association for Consumer Research http://www.acrweb.org
Council of Logistics Management http://www.clm1.org
Direct Marketing Association http://www.the-dma.org
International Franchise Association http://www.franchise.org
National Association of Purchasing Management http://www.napm.org
National Assoc. of State Boards of Accountancy http://www.nasba.org
Production and Operations Management Society http://www.poms.org
Sales & Marketing Executives International http://www.smei.org
Society for Consumer Psychology http://cob.ohio-state.edu/scp/index.htm
Small Business Research Resources
All-Biz Network http://www.all-biz.com
Big Book http://www.bigbook.com
Business Resources Center http://www.morebusiness.com
BusinessSeek http://www.businesseek.com
DataMerge Financing News http://www.datamerge.com/news/index.html
Dun & Bradstreet Information Services http://www.dnb.com
Edward Lowe Foundation http://www.lowe.org
Hewlett-Packard Small Business Resource Center http://hp.com/sbso
Home Office Association of America http://www.hoaa.com
Idea Café :The Small Business Channel http://www.ideacafe.com
International Small Business Corsortium http://www.isbc.com
Microsoft Small Business Resource http://www.microsoft.com/smallbiz
On Village Yellow Pages (Database of 15 million
businesses and organizations) http://www.worldpages.com
Retail Business Center, The http://www.retailadvz.com
Service Corps of Retired Executives SCORE http://www.score.org
Small and Home Based Business Links: References http://www.bizoffice.com/reference.html
Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov
Small Business Advancement National Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu
Strategic Marketing Group Case Studies
(travel, tourism, and recreational industries) http://tahoe.ceres.ca.gov/smg/index.html
Switchboard (10 million business and residential
telephone and address listings) http://www.switchboard.com
U.S. Business Advisor http://www.business.gov
U.S. Government Sources of Information
Fed World http://www.fedworld.gov/#Us.govt
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov
U.S. Bureau of the Census http://www.census.gov
U.S. Business Advisor http://www.business.gov
U.S. Consumer Information Center http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov
U.S. Department of Labor http://dol.gov
U.S. Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov
U.S. Government Printing Office http://access.gpo.gov
U.S. Library of Congress http://cweb.loc.gov
U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration http://www.osha.gov
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission http://sec.gov
U.S. Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov
U.S. Tiger Map Service http://tiger.census.gov