Coca-Cola recently awarded $400,000 to MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources to help establish a new Center for Packaging Innovation and Sustainability. It will involve the MSU colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources (School of Packaging), Engineering and the Eli Broad College of Business (Department of Supply Chain Management).
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A representative from Mintel will be on-campus on Thursday, January 29 to provide training on Mintel Reports and Global New Products Database at the following times/locations:
10:00am: Main Library, North Conference Room (W449)
1:00pm: Business Library, Room 22
The training sessions will last approximately one hour.
Registration is not required, however, please contact Kara Rawlins at gustk@msu.edu or 517.432.4182 if you are interested in attending.
In response to current economic conditions, "IBISWorld has developed a special "Recession Insights" macro-economic study. From this high level study, they have developed new "Recession Update" chapters for all industry reports - including quarterly forecasts for all 700 industries."
See http://www.ibisworld.com/recession2009/Default.aspx for more information.
LexisNexis training is available on:
January 23, 9:30am-11am, Business Library, Room 22,
February 27, 1:30pm-3pm, Main Library, Basement Instruction Room (EG2).
This class will help users explore the brand new interface of LexisNexis Academic, with all new search screens, advanced search features and functionality, while discovering its vast news and business resources, including full-text newspaper articles, news wires and transcripts, company profiles and financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
All classes are free...
Continue reading "LexisNexis Academic Training This Spring"...WRDS is now offering a number of online training sessions covering the following topics:
Using WRDS Effectively
Navigating Compustat Xpressfeed
Navigating CRSP
Compustat: Executive Compensation
How to Use SAS with WRDS
IBES data in WRDS
For course descriptions and to register, see: http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/elearning/calendar.html.
Looking for analyst or investment reports? Try searching LexisNexis and Business and Company Resource Center which contain investment reports for thousands of companies.
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Note: As of November 2008, the Investext Plus database ceased to exist through the Libraries’ vendor. Unfortunately, much of its demise was perpetuated by the fact that most of the major reputable brokers pulled their reports from the database, and so what was left was rather disappointing content. We are working very hard to...
Continue reading "Investment Reports Available in LexisNexis and Business and Company Resource Center"...Business Library journals that are 10 years old or older can now be checked out for 3 days.
See Circulation & Lending Policies for more information.
The Harvard Business Review (v. 1-present) is now available online through Business Source Complete.
Business Source Complete also offers full-text access to other core business and labor journals including Academy of Management, Journal of Consumer Research, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Business Logistics, and many more.
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Mintel's new Transportation Series offers market research in various aspects of the automobile market including green cars, automobile aftermarket, and car buyer demograhics. Many more reports are coming in 2009 including those on the used car market, transportation and fuel costs, and auto financing.
Mintel's Multicultural America Series offers insight and analysis on behaviors, attitudes, lifestyles, and trends specific to Hispanic, Asian and Black Americans.
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Please contact Kara Rawlins at gustk@msu.edu with any questions.
In September the MSU Map Library acquired Africa : corrected from observations of Mess. of ye Royal Societies at London and Paris published by Charles Price and John Senex in London in 1711.
Price and Senex were both prominent engravers and publishers of maps atlases and globes. This map extends Herman Moll's use of textual information, a clear break from the earlier practice of filling in blank spots with fanciful monsters and legends.
The beautiful vibrantly colored cartouche in the lower left corner features a woman wearing beads and earrings sitting with Africa's...
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