Bartley Business Information Center

Also new this month from Mintel reports is their incredible GNPD database. GNPD covers new product introduction and trends around the world and will be a welcome source for our management and marketing students. Available on the “databases by title” page.

In addition to MarketLine, MarketResearch.com Academic, Business Insight, GMID, and S&P’s Market Insight I am proud to announce that my team and I have managed to work out a deal that provides you with access to the industry and demographic reports offered by Mintel Reports. There is a lot of information in that database, so please goto the library website and take a look.

Welcome back!

I have posted the new office hours for the Bartley Research Office (#2008). The appointment scheduler is also open at this time.

The Bartley office #2008 is now closed for the semester. Email us with any research or other questions during the break.

Until January… Good bye.

Presentations are approaching,  let us know if you need any help  with last minute research.

The research office in Bartley Hall, room 2008 will be closed to appointments on 11/20 and will reopen on the Monday after thanksgiving. If you need to return any books circulated from room 2008, please take them to Falvey, but remember, Falvey will be closed on the Thursday and Friday of next week as well.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Michael Nutter won the election for Mayor.

If you notice, 222,805 votes were cast for Mr. Nutter, and there were 46,040 cast for his opponent, plus an additional 1,002 votes for the third party candidate.

This equals 269,847 votes. The Census Bureau states that Philadelphia (The City) has a 2006 estimated population of 1,448,394 people.

What were the other 1.2 million of us doing yesterday?

The National Association of College Stores offers excellent industry analysis and data.  Troll around this free web site at www.nacs.org. 

Your proposal needs to comply with local building and zoning codes.  You can access the Radnor code at www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html#penn.

The World Bank has authored an outstanding free internet resource for evaluating the regulatory environment of doing business in 178 countries.  The site Doing Business www.doingbusiness.org provides rankings and reports on starting a business, licensing, employing workers, acquiring property, paying taxes, enforcing contracts, trade, protecting investors, getting credit and closing a business.  Any environmental scan of the business environment in a foreign country should include this resource.

Please email me directly if you need off campus access to the Economist Intelligence Unit.