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JacksonLine - March 2008

 

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New Database

LehmanLive - Fixed Income Research Database

LehmanLive is a web-based service containing Lehman Brothers equity and fixed income research and analysis. Jackson is one of the first academic institutions to be given access to LehmanLive. Use LehmanLive to:

  • Get fixed income and equity research
  • Analyze historical data
  • Customize charts
  • Chart using math functions such as rolling regression, moving averages and daily percent change.
  • Analyze credits across capital structures

The database is now available in the Trader's Pit of the Jackson Library or you can request an individual user name and password to access the database from your computer or laptop. To obtain a user name and password send an email to: amy.roche@lehman.com with your name, Stanford email and year of graduation.

 

75 Years...

In April J. Hugh Jackson Library will celebrate 75 years of supporting research, teaching, innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors. As our library continues to grow and evolve to support 21st century students and scholars we will salute our rich past and plan for the future. Read more about the celebration in the next issue of Jacksonline.

Journals- New Additions

We’ve added two powerful journals to our collection. Stop in and browse these two additions and discover for yourself why we are so excited to make them available to you. You will find them on display on the Periodicals Wall of the Jackson Library.

Start-up journal cover Start-up

We are happy to announce that we have recently added Start-Up, a Windhover Information publication, to our list of journals. Start-Up provides a first look at the companies and trends that are shaping the business of technology. Each issue profiles the most important new product companies, identifies the hottest technology trends, reviews money movement to private companies, and reports on university tech transfer licensing. Start-Up covers:

  • pharmaceuticals
  • biotechnology
  • hospital supply
  • medical equipment and devices

In the latest issue of Start-Up you can read about an imaging study that identifies plaques as a critical mediator in Alzheimer’s disease development, bolstering the idea that removing plaque or targeting the processes that lead to plaque formation are valid strategies.

Red Herring Magazine coverRed Herring

Red Herring has recently re-established its print edition for domestic subscribers. Red Herring is a monthly publication for anyone interested in the emerging technologies, trends, investments, companies as well as profiles of executives who build, finance and drive the global technology economy. Although its origins are Silcon Valley, Red Herring covers global technologies and trends.

  • Find out what’s really going on in tech
  • Meet the hottest startups & their investors
  • Invest ahead of the rest

In the latest issue of Red Herring read how manufacturers are using RFID in their plants to boost their bottom line.

Stanford Executive Briefing Videos and DVD's

CEOs prominent professors and authors share their experience and research at monthly lectures called “Breakfast Briefings.”  Presentations of the Stanford Breakfast Briefings are professionally recorded and distributed. Thanks to the generosity of the  Executive Education Department, the library has copies of these recordings available to you. Learn the most relevant powerful strategies and best practices shaping business today among the many DVD's that await you are:

  • Professor Chip Heath’s research on “How to Make Your Ideas Stick: Seven Lessons from Urban Legends”
  • "The Power of Persuasion" with Robert Cialdini
  • "How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People" with Charles O'Reilly III
  • "Mastery of Speaking as a Leader" with Terry Pearce
  • "Skills, Techniques and Strategies for Effective Negotiations" with  Patrick Cleary
  • "Change Management and Strategic Planning" with Roberta Katz
  • "Supply Chain Management" with Hau Lee
  • "The Exceptional Leader: Action Steps for Leadership Formation" with Jack Zenger
  • "Fear of Feedback" with Myra Strober and Jay Jack

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Keep up with the latest business news. View daily articles from the pages of The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. Browse through the text of the entire newspaper, drilling down section by section for the news of most interest. Browse through the most current issues of Forbes, Fortune, Barrons, Business Week and Newsweek. Keep current with Factiva, available to you from the Jackson Library database page or via webapps.

 

Popular Books 

New to the Popular Book shelves.

Revolt book cover Revolt in the Boardroom: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America by Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal, describes the recent shift of corporate power from CEO's to the boardroom. HD2785 .M87 2007

 

Judgement book cover Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis offers a framework for making tough calls when the stakes are high and the right path is far from obvious. HD57.7.T496 2007

 

Opting Out book cover Opting Out: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home by Pamela Stone interviews professional women who returned home after promising careers, and concludes that most of these women were not "opting out"but were being forced out. HQ759.46 .S86 2007

 

Perfect Scent book coverThe Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York by Chandler Burr of the New York Times Style Magazine, chronicles an unprecedented year spent behind the scenes of the industry, focusing on perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena and actress Sarah Jessica Parker and their independent quests to create "the perfect scent." HD9999.P3932 B87 2008

All this -- and more -- on our Popular Books display.

Business Websites

These are sites our librarians discover on the public Web, and we're constantly adding to them. Some selections from our latest crop, with the subject section of where they may be found : Ecosystem Marketplace (in Environment), about markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services, IRS Business Tax Statistics (in Accounting & Taxes) with data on tax returns, Kidon Media Link (in News) with links to thousands of newspaper sites, PayScale (in Human Resources) offering how to compare your job and skills with your peers, and Webopedia (in Reference), an online dictionary of computer and internet terms.

 


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Jack's Favorite Quote of the Month

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”

~Carl T. Rowan ( 1920 –2000) ~

 

 

Send your comments, questions, suggestions to Jan Driscoll.