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Hoovers OnlineThe world's top enterprises is at the core of our business tools and service that customers find vital to their operations. In depth company history,financial, IPO, stocks and background information available.
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Business Insights: EssentialsResearch and analyze companies and industries around the world with extensive reference content from Gale's core business collection, easy-to-use company fundamentals and investment research reports, SWOT reports, industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories, and more.
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Value LineProvides online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
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Mergent OnlineU.S. Company Data. An Internet-accessible subscription service covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings
International Company Data. More companies from more countries than any other international database, with global searching across databases.
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Gartner This link opens in a new windowDetailed research from Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company. Not all documents are available in full-text form.
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Mergent WebReportsMergent WebReports provides online access to the Moody's/Mergent manuals. These manuals provide corporate histories, business descriptions, and information on properties, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt, financial statements and municipal debt. Years vary 1920's to present.
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Standard & Poor's NetAdvantageA comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor's independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries. Content includes detailed tock reports, company profiles, bond reports, corporation records, mutual fund reports, security dealers directory and industry surveys.
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Mintel This link opens in a new windowMintel Reports and Mintel Trends provide comprehensive, in-depth consumer and market analysis and trends. Mintel Global New Product Database includes detailed product data on new products in the food, drink, beauty and personal care, health and hygiene, home care and pet markets..
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Nexis Uni (formerly LEXIS/NEXIS Academic) This link opens in a new windowCompany Dossier, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical and government resources
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Business Abstracts with Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowContains full-text articles from key publications and provides product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports. It also includes more than 600,000 corporate names with references to specific industries and countries. Provided by EBSCO.
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EBSCO Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowThis database provides articles from business journals, magazines and newspapers including the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly and many others.
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PrivCo This link opens in a new windowA key source for business and financial research on private, non-publicly traded companies, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and internationally unlisted organizations. Users must create an account (USC e-mail address) to login.
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SWOT Analysis
Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)
The analysis of a firm’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A SWOT analysis helps evaluate how a company will perform in a competitive environment.
SWOT analysis. (2003). In Webster's new world finance and investment dictionary. Retrieved from https://libproxy.usc.edu/login?url=http://search.credoreference.com.libproxy.usc.edu/content/entry/wileynwfid/swot_analysis/0