Jackson Library

• Corporate reports
  • Thomson Research - annual and SEC reports
• Corporate financials databases
  • Thomson One Banker - Analytics - detailed financial data; screening function for firms by criteria
  • Compustat - detailed current and historical financial data; screening function for firms by criteria
• Corporate executives databases
  • Leadership Library - includes executive personal education, career history, biographical facts

• Business literature databases
  
  • Business Source Complete - full text articles from business journals and magazines, including the Harvard Business Review
  • ABI Inform - full text articles from management and business magazines
  • Factiva - in particular, strong coverage of newspapers
    
    To search topics , consider using a SU (Subject) field, e.g. 'executive compensation' as Subject in ABI Inform

Sample searches in Business Source Complete using Advanced Search

• Strategy - Combine SU and CO fields, e.g. 'strategic planning' (SU) and 'ford motor' (CO)
• SWOT - Combine TI and CO fields, e.g. 'swot' (TI) and 'ford motor' (CO)
• Executive news - Combine SU and CO fields, e.g. 'executives' (SU) and 'ford motor' (CO)

Sample searches in ABI Inform using Advanced Search

• Strategy - Combine 'Subject' and 'Citation & Abstract' fields, e.g. 'strategic' (SU) and 'ford motor' (CIT)
• SWOT - Combine 'Title' and 'Citation & Abstract' fields, e.g. 'swot' (TI) and 'ford motor' (CIT)
• Executive news - Combine 'Subject' and 'Citation & Abstract' fields, e.g. 'executives' (SU) and 'ford motor' (CIT)

Sample searches in Factiva using Search Builder

• Click Search Builder, then Subject. Expand topic, e.g. Corporate / Industrial News, further, e.g. Bankruptcy, Corporate Awards, Corporate Social Responsibility, etc. Click on appropriate Subject and use in a search with a firm name

Relative position to peers - 'Peer Analysis' in OneSource North America Business Browser, 'Comparables' in Thomson One Banker Analytics, 'Research' (analyst reports) in Thomson Investext

• Executive Compensation (Compustat North America) - Historical file covering over 2,000 companies
  
• The Corporate Library - Comprehensive corporate governance, compensation, and critical company information on over 12,400 U.S. companies and over 135,000 directors. Data on corporate board structure and independence, director positions and committee assignments, executive and director compensation, audit fees and more
  
  
• RiskMetrics - Research and data provided by the IRRC (Investor Responsibility Research Center). Includes governance data (formerly the Takeover Defense database) and historical directors data
  
  
• Audit Analytics - Audit Analytics provides detailed research on auditor information, Sarbanes-Oxley disclosures, compliance disclosures, litigation, and corporate governance (NOTE: you must request an account.)
  Alternatively, you may access via WRDS
  
  
• SDC (Trader's Pit) - Detailed data on poison pills, proxy fights
  
  
• The Conference Board - Reports on business management and corporate governance
  
  
• Business Web Sites: Company Research - Public corporate governance websites collected by Jackson Library staff