Selected Websites - Business Sites

American Booksellers Association

A not-for-profit organization devoted to meeting the needs of its core members of independently owned bookstores with retail storefront locations through advocacy, education, research, and information dissemination. Contains good industry statistics.

Business Internet Index

A handy list of internet links arranged alphabetically by subject. From Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management Library.

The Conference Board

Offers the latest information, data, and analysis on the Board's Consumer Confidence Index and Index of Leading Economic Indicators. Also included are the Board's conference agendas, information about its executive council program, and reports on human resources/organizational effectiveness, business and education, international economics, and more.

Top Diversity Owned Businesses

Rankings of top minority owned and female owned business in the United States.

Harvard Business School Publishing

This is a searchable catalogue of abstracts of Harvard Business School case studies and other publications. This is the online version of the paper Catalog of Teaching Materials.

Hoover's Online

Capsules on over 12,000 companies from the U.S. and the world, plus snapshots on 25 industries.

Institute for Business & Professional Ethics

Centered at DePaul University, the purpose of the Institute is to encourage ethical deliberation among business decision-makers.

Joint World Bank & IMF Libraries Online Catalog

Find books, journal titles, journal articles, working papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, videos, software, electronic resources, and more.

NFIB Research Foundation

Brought to you by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), America's most powerful small business lobbying organization.  The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is the largest advocacy organization representing small and independent businesses in Washington, D.C. and all 50 state capitals.

Penn Library Business Sites

Internet resources arranged by subject.

Contingency Analysis (Risk Management)

This site provides a broad overview of enterprise risk management and risk measurement, including value at risk, derivative instruments, credit risk management and financial engineering. a collection of research papers on enterprise risk management covering topics such as value at risk, risk visualization, and accuracy vs. precision, as well as an in-depth glossary of 200 risk management terms.

Scout Report for Business and Economics

From the University of Wisconsin. "Published every Friday both on the web and by email, [The Scout Report] provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet.

Small Business Administration

This site provides access to resources for developing small businesses.

Survey of Current Business

lThe US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis has recently made available full text (in Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format, with file sizes between five and eight Mb) of its monthly compendium of articles and statistics about state, regional, and US business and economic conditions.

Virtual International Business and Economics Sources (VIBES)

Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES) provides over links to sources of international business and economic information on the Internet. Arranged by sites that are either comprehensive, regional, or national in scope and include full-text files (in English), statistical tables and graphs, and metapages.