Try these books in the Foster Business Library reference collection (behind the Reference Desk):

Mergent dividend record (1999-  )
Formerly Moody's dividend record (1953-1999).
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4028 .D5 .M65. (Twice Weekly)

Standard & Poor's dividend record (1977-  )
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4028 .D5 .S7a. (Weekly)

Standard & Poor's stock reports (1998-  )
See under Per Share Data.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4907 .S72. (Monthly)

Mergent's handbook of common stocks (2001-  )
Formerly the Handbook of common stocks (1999-2001)
Formerly Moody's handbook of common stocks (1965-1999)
See under Interim Dividends.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4501 .M59 (Quarterly)

A good alternative source, online, is Yahoo! Finance; go to a company's Key Statistics and then to the Dividends & Splits section in the lower right. As an example, see Boeing.

Yes, the Foster Business Library subscribes to the PriceWaterhouseCoopers series Doing Business; for a list of the titles and countries in this series, see Doing Business Series.

"The D&B D-U-N-S Number is a unique nine-digit identification sequence, which provides unique identifiers of single business entities, while linking corporate family structures together." To see if a Dun's number exists for an organization, go to http://www.dnb.com/US/duns_update/index.html. It's also possible to telephone D&B, toll-free, at 1-888-814-1435, Monday through Friday, 5AM to 3PM, Pacific Time.

The Foster Business Library database Hoovers Online includes the D&B D-U-N-S number in its company fact sheets for tens of thousands of U.S. companies. The Foster Business Library business directory database Reference USA does not have D-U-N-S numbers; instead, it has ABI numbers.

Alternatively, check this title in the Foster Business Library reference collection (behind the Reference Desk):

D&B million dollar directory.
This five-volume set is a directory of America's top public and private companies, firms with more than 180 employees or more than $9 million in annual sales; there are also geographic and industry indexes to the directory. Company listings include the D-U-N-S number.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HC102 .D8 2003.

The King County Library System also offers online access to many databases, including the D&B Million Dollar Database; a KCLS library card number is required for access.

Try these books in the Foster Business Library reference collection (behind the Reference Desk):

Standard & Poor's stock reports.
See under Per Share Data.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4907 .S72. (Monthly)

Mergent's handbook of common stocks.
See under Earnings.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4501 .M59 (Quarterly)

An alternative source, online, is Yahoo! Finance; go to a company's Key Statistics and then to the Income Statement section for EPS, earnings per share. As an example, see Boeing.

Go to the list of Electronic Journals in Business and Economics on the Foster Business Library homepage, for the monthly Country Reports and annual Country Profiles, for almost 200 countries. These reports and profiles are available in either HTML or PDF formats for current U.W. students, faculty, and staff, via the Foster Business Library database EIU Online, back to 1996/1997.

Print editions of these two series are available in the Periodicals Collection up to 2001/2002 (when the library stopped receiving print editions). This collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the periodical, from A on the right to Z on the left, so you will find the Economist Intelligence Unit's quarterly Country Reports shelved in the C's. The Country Reports are arranged alphabetically by country. The Country Profiles come out annually; the Country Reports, quarterly. Some smaller countries may be included, out of alphabetic sequence, in a combined report or profile with other adjoining countries; check the UW Libraries Catalog if the country cannot be found on the shelves.

For more about countries, see the Foster Business Library research guide International Business Resources.

EndNote?

Endnote is a program to help students create bibliographies from imported citations from databases. It formats references and creates bibliographies automatically in Microsoft Word.

Do the Foster Business Library's computers offer Endnote? Yes, all of the Access + computers in the library, the computers that ask for your UW Net ID, offer Endnote, as of the beginning of winter quarter 2005. It's also is also available in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, the Suzzallo/Allen Library, and the Engineering Library. To find EndNote, go to the Start button at the lower left of the Access + homepage, then to Programs, for EndNote.

For more about Endnote, go to Research Guides on the Foster Business Library for the guide About Endnote.

Biographical information is usually only available for top executives of public companies (companies whose stock is publicly traded). Company homepages sometimes offer some biographical information about the management team.

For executive biographies on the web, try Yahoo! Finance (http://quote.yahoo.com/). For instance, for Boeing, look up the company via the ticker symbol BA and go to the Boeing company Profile; scroll down to Officers and click on Bios at the bottom of the list of officers; unfortunately, to access this biographical information, you must register with Reuters (membership is free).

Another source for executive biographies on the web is ZoomInfo, with over 28 million business people at over 2.3 million companies. As an example, see the information available for a former local CEO, Doug Walker, a founder of WRQ.

Though only available in the Foster Business Library, the Bloomberg database, on PC #20, is another good source for executive biographies. "For example, if you were looking for information on Warren Buffett, you would:

Type Warren Buffett, hit the green HELP key.
This brings up the HELP page with various categories.
Type 7 (next to People), hit the green GO key.
Type 1 (next to Warren Edward Buffett), hit the green GO key.

This brings up his profile that contains:
--his current position, company name, address, phone number
--his photograph
--current news about him
--his career history
--other company affiliations
--board memberships
--education
--personal information (including his DOB)
--awards
--reported holdings (of stock in other public companies)"

(The above thanks to Richard Drezen, Research Librarian, Washington Post/NYC Bureau.)

Alternatively, consult these titles in the Foster Business Library reference collection (behind the Reference Desk):

American business leaders: from colonial times to the present.
Two-page biographies of male and female American business executives, in two volumes.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HC102.5 .A2 .H36 1999.


African-American business leaders: a biographical dictionary.
Extensive biographies of about 100 prominent African-American business leaders.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HC102.5 .A2 .I52 1994.


Business: the ultimate resource.
See pages 1062 to 1163 for two-page biographies of 51 Management Giants.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HD38.15 .B878 2002.


Reference book of corporate managements: America's corporate leaders.
Brief biographies of top executives at 12,000 U.S. companies.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4057 .A22 (Annual)


Standard & Poor's register: directors and executives.
Brief biographies for 71,000 top executives, directors and partners at U.S. companies, with birthdates, education, experience, and, sometimes, e-mail addresses.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4057 .A4 v.2 (Annual)


For books about executive celebrities, try a UW Libraries Catalog for the subject Chief executive officers -- United States -- Biography; click here to launch such a search--or search by name of executive.

Exchange rate for British pounds and U.S. dollars for a date in 1996?

Try the Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors historical exchange rate website at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/hist/default1999.htm for rates for 1990 to 1999 and http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/hist/default1989.htm for rates through 1989, looking for United Kingdom.

Other good sources for currency rates and historical data on the web include Oanda, Pacific Exchange Rate Service and Economic History Services.

For older currency exchange rates, see:

Currency conversion tables: a hundred years of change.
Currency rates for 28 major countries, going back to the early years of the twentieth century.
Foster Business Library reference collection, Call number HG219 .B5 1970.

Failures?

For historical business failure information, see the Failure record / Dun & Bradstreet, call number HG3766 .D8 1957-1971, The business failure record / Dun & Bradstreet , call number HG3766 .D8 1972-1978, The Dun & Bradstreet business failure record , call number HG3766 .D8 1979-1981, or the Business failure record , call number HG3766 .D8 1982-1997, all located in the Foster Business Library Reference Serials collection.

For more recent information, see the latest Statistical abstract of the United States, call number HA202 .U56, published annually, in the Foster Business Library reference collection; it is also available online. Look for section 15, on Business Enterprise.

For more recent information, see the references to business bankruptcies and business terminations in the U.S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Economic Indicators for 2003 (in 29 PDF pages). This Annual Publication is issued by the S.B.A.'s Office of Advocacy's Office of Economic Research.

FARS?

The library does not offer access to the FARS database (Financial Accounting Research System) nor does it have passwords and logins for this database. The library does offer FASB publications, in print, as part of the Foster Business Library Reference Accounting Collection (located behind the reference desk).

The public fax facilities nearest to the Foster Business Library are down in the Communications Building basement, in room B-045. This location handles telex, mailgrams, international cables and facsimiles.

Forecasts?

A good online, free source for financial forecasts including stock indexes, interest rates, economic indicators, oil and gold, currency values, and more, is the Financial Forecast Center.

Fortune 500 List?

The Foster Business Library subscribes to Fortune magazine, one of 800 business periodicals in the library's Periodicals Collection. The annual Fortune 500 list usually appears in the issue published in mid-April; the 2003 list is available in the April 14, 2003 issue, either on the shelves in the periodicals collection (arranged alphabetically by the name of the magazine or shelved by its call number (HF5001 .F7) in the reference collection.

While articles in this magazine are available online in several library databases, the Fortune 500 list is not included and is only available, online from the magazine, to those with a subscriber account number. That number, which appears on the mailing label on the cover of the library's issues, is:   188066379

The Fosters?

In 1990, the University of Washington Business School received a gift of three million dollars from the Foster Foundation, to fund a new business library, to be named in honor of Albert O. and Evelyn W. Foster. Albert O. Foster graduated from the University of Washington in 1928 with a degree in business and, in 1938, founded the investment banking firm of Foster & Marshall. He was also a member of the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1950's. His wife, Evelyn W. Foster, was also a University of Washington graduate, receiving her degree in 1932, and a community volunteer with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera and Seattle Art Museum. The Business School combined the Foster gift with two others and developed the concept for a complex that would come to include the Seafirst Executive Education Center, the Boeing Auditorium, and the Foster Business Library.

Full text articles?

As an example, look up the Journal of Marketing by title in the UW Libraries Catalog or in the Foster Business Library's list of titles in its Periodicals Collection; the record for this title shows whether full text is available for this title and in which database.

To identify what databases might include full text for journals, try the search engines at Indiana University Bloomington Libraries or the University of New Mexico. The University of Washington Libraries may not have access to some of the databases at those campuses.

Futures and options for commodities and currencies?

Go to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Agricultural Commodity Products or their Foreign Exchange. For market data on agricultural products, interest rates, the Dow, and metals, go to the Chicago Board of Trade market data for Products. For commodity futures, with daily, weekly, monthly, and historical data, see also Commodity Futures.

For more about futures, see the Foster Business Library research guide entitled Futures Resources.

Galante's?

No, the Foster Business Library does not subscribe to the annual Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity; this publication is also unavailable via the Summit consortium. Instead, see:

The directory of venture capital & private equity firms: domestic & international.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4963 .D57 2004.

For more information on the topic of venture capital, see the Foster Business Library research guide on Venture Capital.

The Graduate Management Admission Test is a common requirement for those going on to graduate business schools. The Foster Business Library has no recent books on preparing for the GMAT but there are over two dozen books elsewhere in the UW Libraries system on the GMAT, many of them in the Odegaard Undergraduate Libray's Career Books collection.

Those with a UW NetID can also access the database Testing and Education Reference Center; see their GMAT Test Preparation section.

Try the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook; scroll down to the Economy section for the country you're interested in. GDP information includes GDP by purchasing power parity, real growth rate, per capita and composition by sector. Alternatively, you can view GDP data from this publication in a graphical form in NationMaster.

The Foster Business Library database EUI Online is also a good online source for a country's GDP; go to Viewswires, look up the country of your choice, and go to the category Economic Structure for the most recent GDP data.

Alternatively, try these titles in the Foster Business Library reference collection:

Statistical abstract of the United States.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HA202 .U56 (Annual)

World economic outlook.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HC59. .I52 (Annual)

International financial statistics.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG3881 .I6263 (Annual)
Foster Business Library Reference Serials, Call number: HG3881 .I626 (Monthly)

Harvard Business Review?

Full text articles from the Harvard Business Review are available in the Factiva database; see About The Harvard Business Review for more information.

The Foster Business Library doesn't have individual Harvard Business School case studies. Case studies are usually quite short--about two dozen pages--and there are many thousands of them, each costing about $5. An older published directory of cases available may be found in the Foster Business Library main books collection:

Comprehensive teaching materials catalog.
Foster Business Library General Stacks, Call number: HD30.4 .D573 1998/1999.

Alternatively, you might try the Harvard Business School Publishing website at: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/cases/index.html. For a wider range of case studies sources, see a Research Guide on this topic, prepared by the Davis Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or the Penn State Business Library's Case Studies.

The Foster Business Library has, in its General Stacks collection, some collections of Harvard Business School case studies that have been collected and republished by HBS. Click here for a list of more than 60 titles, collected via a keyword search for Harvard and Business and Case, limited to the location Foster Business Library.

The Foster Business Library has over 1,400 books in its General Stacks collection, with case studies in them. To find them, go to UW Libraries Catalog on the Foster homepage and do a keyword search for Case Studies, limited to the Location Foster Business Library. Click here to launch such a search. You can also use Cases as your search term, limited to the Foster Business Library location, which will retrieve over 400 books in the Foster collections.

Another source for case studies is periodical articles. Go to the Foster Business Library database ABI/Inform Global, click Select Multiple Databases, and then Select All Databases. Enter a subject search for SUB(Case Studies) to produce over 170,000 articles on this topic; combine this subject with another term to obtain case studies about an industry, company, or concept, as in SUB(Case Studies) and SUB(Nonprofit Organizations).

Try Yahoo! Finance for daily S&P quotes; weekly, monthly and other historical quotes are also available. For quotes from the other major markets, go to the Major U.S. Indices section, where you can also find charts and components for many indexes.

Try Yahoo! Finance for historical stock quote. You will need to know your company's ticker symbol. As an example, Boeing's ticker symbol is BA; click here to obtain historical stock quotes for Boeing.

When a company's ticker symbol has changed, or the company has been acquired or gone out of business, print sources need to be consulted. See Daily Stock Prices in the Foster Business Library reference collection.

Hofstede scales?

The Foster Business Library reference collection includes three titles by Hofstede:

Culture's consequences: comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations acrosss nations.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: GN502 .H628 2001.

Culture's consequences: international differences in work-related values.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: GN502 .H63 1980.

Cultures and organizations: software of the mind.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HM258 .H574 1997.

For more about the Hofstede scales and their applications to individual countries, go to the Geert Hofstede site at the International Business Center.

For a brief profile of Hofstede and his work, see:

Business: the ultimate resource.
See Hofstede on pages 1004 to 1005.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number HD38.15 .B878 2002.


For information about the Hofstede model of national culture, see:

The fundamentals of organizational behavior.
See the Hofstede Model on pages 115 to 119.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number HD58.7 .T653 2003.

House prices in Puget Sound?

In the Foster Business Library reference serials collection, see:

The Central Puget Sound real estate research report.
This publication includes single family housing, income property, building and economic activity and special reports. It includes commercial real estate and demographics information and is published every fall and spring.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HD266 .W22 .K58 (Semiannual)

Alternatively, see the Washington Center for Real Estate Research and its quarterly Market Data section for Central Puget Sound summary data.

Also useful is the Marketing & Statistics section on the website of the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (with data for all Washington state counties). Another source, for five communities in Washington state, with calculators for comparison with 350 other U.S. communities, is ColdwellBankerBain.Com's Price Comparison table.

For more about real estate, see the Foster Business Library research guide Real Estate Resources.

The Foster Business Library Reference Collection includes these Ibbotson Associates' yearbooks:

Stocks, bonds, bills, and inflation yearbook: valuation edition
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4028 .V3 .S86 2005.
(Earlier editions in the Foster Business Library Reference Serials Collection)

Stocks, bonds, and inflation: Japan yearbook
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4503 .S75 1989.

Stocks, bonds, bills, and inflation yearbook / SBBI
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4905 .S75 2006.
(Earlier editions in the Foster Business Library Reference Serials Collection)

The library does not have Ibbotson's:

Cost of capital yearbook

The only library in Summit with a copy of this title is Western Washington University, in Bellingham.

The U.S. Federal Reserve is the best source for interest rate information, for both Daily Updates and Historical Data.

For print sources for this information, go to the monthly Federal Reserve Bulletin in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, or:

Economic indicators.
Monthly publication from the Council of Economic Advisors.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number HC101 .E35.
(Also available online)

To get a book or article via interlibrary loan, go to the Student Toolkit in the Toolkit menu at the top of the Foster Business Library homepage; under Your Library Record, click on Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery. How long it takes to get an article or book depends on how long it takes the loaning library to respond; usually, the process takes two to four weeks, with articles often appearing a little sooner.

Internal Revenue Code?

The Foster Business Library has the:

Complete Internal Revenue Code
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number KF6276.558 .A19 .U53 (Latest)
(The previous year's edition is in Foster Business Library General Stacks, with the same call number, and can be checked out.)

The Internal Revenue Code is also available online via the Foster Business Library database Lexis-Nexis Academic; go to Legal Information, then to Tax Law, and then to Internal Revenue Code.

Investment managers in the Seattle area?

In the Foster Business Library reference collection, see:

Nelson Information's directory of investment managers.
This large three-volume directory profiles over 1,800 investment firms, U.S. and foreign, that provide investment services to institutional clients; see volume three, pages 5545 to 5546, for Washington state companies, by major metropolitan area, including Seattle.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4907 .N44 (Annual)

For securities firms in the Seattle area, see:

Puget Sound Business Journal book of lists.
This oversized annual publication ranks the largest and fastest growing firms, institutions, wineries and other businesses in the Puget Sound region. See Securities Firms, for the 25 largest firms.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HC108 .S77 .P83 (Annual)

IPO information?

An excellent source for information on Initial Public Offerings (IPO's) may be found in the Foster Business Library database Hoovers Online, in their IPO Central area, with IPO filings, calendar, performance, scorecard, update, list, and more. For general information on the IPO process, see:

The Ernst & Young LLP guide to the IPO value journey.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4028 .S7 .B56 1999.

For more books on this topic, see a short list of books, in the Foster Business Library, on the subject Going Public (Securities) -- United States. For data and articles on this topic, see IPO Data and IPO Links.

Go to the homepage for the Foster Business Library and, under Research, click on find Periodical Lists. Click on Periodicals in the Foster Business Library to find a complete list by title of all Foster Business Library periodicals and the dates of coverage.

Laptops?

The Foster Business Library is laptop-friendly, with over 200 Ethernet connections (bring your Ethernet cord) and four wireless hubs.

At the end of spring quarter 2004, the library stopped loaning laptops for use within the library, the aging fleet of Dell laptops too slow and outdated to be useful, their service contracts expired; they were returned to the Student Technology Office. The Foster Business Library now has over twenty Access + personal computers with Microsoft Office software, for word processing and spreadsheet applications. There is also an extensive Business School Computer Lab on the fourth floor of Balmer Hall. Classroom Support Services in the basement of Kane Hall also circulates laptops that are newer, faster, have better software, can be reserved, and can be checked out for three days.

A regular assignment in Martin Westerman's BCMU 301 sections asks students to make a copy of an article entitled The Little Green Lie, published in the Reader's Digest, July 1993, volume 143, issue 855, page 100. Reader's Digest is not available in the Foster Business Library, either in print or online; the nearest library with Reader's Digest is Suzzallo Library Periodicals, under call number 051 RD. Because heavy use from this class has causing deterioration of this issue, the Suzzallo Periodicals section sometimes keeps this volume of Reader's Digest at the periodicals desk, with a cross reference block on the shelves.

An unofficial copy of this article is also available online by clicking here.

A number of UW libraries have copies of the book entitled Answering Chief Seattle, about Chief Seattle's speech. While there is no online version of the Reader's Digest article in the Foster Business Library article databases, Lexis-Nexis Academic and ABI's historical New York Times databases include an April 21, 1992 New York Times article on this topic, with the title "Chief's Speech of 1854 Given New Meaning (and Words)," by Timothy Egan, in Section A, Page 1, Column 5. The version of the speech that has caused so much discussion may also be found at the Suquamish Tribe's Website for the speech.

Market research reports?

Foster Business Library staff are often asked if the library has access to market research reports, online or in print, from firms such as Frost & Sullivan, Gartner or as found at sites such as Market Research.Com, with its thousands of reports costing thousands of dollars each. The simple answer is no, libraries cannot afford such reports, don't receive them as gifts, and do not have them in their collections. Some market research can be performed, however, using library resources such as those noted below, under Market Size Information.

Market share information?

Try this title in the Foster Business Library reference collection, using the product and brand or company indexes in the back of the two-volume set.

Market share reporter.
This two-volume annual publication includes the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, as well as globally.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF5410 .M35 (Annual)

For newer market share information or for market share information not in the volumes above, try full article searches for market share in a Foster Business Library database such as ABI Inform/Global, searching in all collections.

For more about marketing, see the Foster Business Library research guide Marketing Resources.

Market size information?

Try these titles in the Foster Business Library reference collection:

International marketing data and statistics.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HA42 .I56 (Annual)

Statistical abstract of the United States.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HA202 .U56 2002.

European marketing data and statistics.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HA1107 .E87 2003.

Market share reporter.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF5410 .M35 (Annual)

U.S. market trends & forecasts.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF5415.1 .U8 2001.

See also the Foster Business Library databases:

Euromonitor   (Search for Market Size and name of product.)

Lexis-Nexis Statistical.   (Search by product.)

For newer market size information, try full text article searches for Market Potential in the Foster Business Library database ABI Inform/Global, searching in all databases.

Try the following books in the Foster Business Library reference collection:

The internet marketing plan: a practical handbook for creating, implementing and assessing your online presence.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF5415.1265 1997.

Marketing plans: how to prepare them, how to use them.
This newer title, in its fifth edition, provides information about the marketing process, the marketing audit, the communication and pricing plans, and marketing planning, as well as the nuts and bolts of how to prepare and use a marketing plan.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5415.13 .M369183 2002.

How to write a successful marketing plan: a disciplined and comprehensive approach.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF5415.13 .H52 1996.

Most business plans include a marketing plan so a good business plan reference work should offer examples of marketing plans; in particular, see this compendium:

Business plans handbook: a compilation of over 200 actual business plans developed by small business throughout North America.
In ten volumes, with an index by type of business at the back of volume ten.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HD62.7 .B865.

For ten sample marketing plans online, try MPlans.Com and look for the notation View Plan Online.

For more than 20 books in the Foster Business Library collection on Marketing Plans, click here. For a list of recent books in the Foster Business Library on marketing plans, click here.

For more about marketing, see the Foster Business Library research guide Marketing Resources.

MBA personal statements?

No, the Foster Business Library does not have examples of the personal statements that must be included with applications for the U.W. MBA program. Applicants may review the essay questions at the MBA website by downloading the application form. MBA program admissions counselors at MacKenzie Hall 110 are also happy to discuss the personal statements with applicants in person; visit them there or phone 206-543-4661 to make an appointment.

For a brief guide to personal statements in general, see Personal Statements and Application Letters, produced by Indiana University's Writing Tutorial Services.

See also these books in the Foster Business Library reference collection:

The Wall Street Journal guide to the top business schools.
See Admission Tips on pages 44 to 51.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF1106 .W26 2002.


The best business schools.
See Essays That Work: Writing Your Way Into Business School on pages 67 to 104.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF1131 .S78 1995.


Which MBA?
See Essay Questions on pages 78 to 79.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF1111 .B53 1999.


The Business Week guide to the best business schools.
See Crafting The Perfect B-school Essay on pages 27 to 30.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF1131 .B95 2001.

No, the Foster Business Library's Access+ workstations do not offer Microsoft FrontPage, since FrontPage is not part of the Microsoft Office suite on those machines. Microsoft FrontPage is available, however, among the software selections in all three Balmer Hall Computer Labs, in the west end of the fourth floor of Balmer. The University's General Access Computer Labs do not offer Microsoft FrontPage, instead offering Adobe GoLive, for webpage creation.

For more information about web page creation on campus, see Computing & Networking's Creating and Publishing Web Pages.

Most profitable industries?

See:

Business rankings annual.
This annual volume provides 5,000 rankings of companies, products, services and business activities, with data culled from thousands of sources. See Industry, on pages 446 to 448 of the 2004 edition, for the most profitable, fastest growing, top five-year returns, top one-year return, and top ten-year return to shareholders.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4050 .B88 2004.

The net asset value of a mutual fund may be found online at Yahoo! Finance Mutual Funds Center.

Try the following publication in the Foster Business Library reference collection:

Morningstar mutual funds
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HG4530 .M676 (Current Biweekly Binder) or:
Online, at PC #19, in the CD-ROM Morningstar Principia database. For more information on how to use this database, go to Morningstar's twenty-five Product Tutorials.

For more about mutual funds, see the Foster Business Library research guide Mutual Fund Resources.

The U.S. Census Bureau maintains a search index for the North American Industry Classification System at NAICS index page at http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics/framesrc.htm. For more about NAICS, click here. This site is also available under Business Research Tools on the Foster Business Library homepage.

Alternatively, you can consult this title in the Foster Business Library reference collection:

North American industry classification system: United States, 2002.
Foster Business Library Reference, Call number: HF1042 .N67 2002.

Neighborhood demographics in Washington state?

Most census information is detailed down to state, county, and city but not neighborhood levels. The U.S. Census Bureau does, however, gather data by Census-Related Places, which sometimes correspond to neighborhoods, and by zip code. The Census Bureau defines a Census-Related Place as a "statistical entity, defined for each decennial census according to Census Bureau guidelines, comprising a densely settled concentration of population that is not within an incorporated place, but is locally identified by a name. CDPs are delineated cooperatively by state and local officials and the Census Bureau, following Census Bureau guidelines."

To find information on census-related places, such as, for instance, White Center, go to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Factfinder, and click on People. In the City or Town box, key in White Center; make Washington the state to be searched. The result is a complete listing of all available data for White Center as well as a map of the place. For a list of all Washington state demographic profiles, for the state, counties, metropolitan areas, reservations, and cities, towns, and census-designated places, click here.

For more about demographics, see the Foster Business Library research guide Demographics Resources.

Newspapers in this library?

Go to the Foster Business Library Periodical Display area in the northwest corner of the first floor for recent issues of:

Barrons
Computerworld
The Financial Times
Investors Business Daily
Nikkei Weekly
Puget Sound Business Journal
Travel Weekly
Wall Street Journal

For a list of these newspapers and links to online versions, click here.

Old currency values?