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JacksonLine - April 2009

 

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newMorgan Stanley Analyst Reports

Analyst research from Morgan Stanley is now available through the Investext collection. These award winning analysts produce 3,000 new reports every month across all major markets globally, with over 2,300 stocks under coverage. Investext has also added the complete archive of Morgan Stanley reports which includes 295,000 reports dating back to 1986. The Morgan Stanley reports are wonderful addition to the over 1,400 investment banks and research firms currently available through Thomson Investext.

 

Venture Capital and Private Equity Info

Do you need information one the venture capital or private equity industry? Jackson library staff created a guide that will point you to resources that give you information on fundraising, financings, liquidity events, people moves and other key developments in the venture capital industry. The Venture Capital and Private Equity Guide points to databases, articles, books and directories.

Hot Topics - Information Advisors Best Biz Site

    Our Hot Topics pages was listed on information advisors BestBizWeb Enewsletter stating "Consider this site if you want to find some of the best and most authoritative coverage on the latest issues facing business." They mentioned human element and value added from the selection and organizing process of the site. So if you are interested in the latest business buzz, check out the Hot Topics page.


    ? Ask a Librarian

Ask a Librarian is an email reference service provided by Jackson Librarians. You can Ask a Librarian for:

    • help in locating facts, statistics, and bibliographic citations
    • suggestions about how to research a specific topic or locate particular kinds of information
    • information about the library's collections, resources, services,
      and facilities
    •  library tours and one on one training

    Yummy Stuff

    Spring is the perfect time to visit the Fisherman's Wharf.  Views of the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge are breathtaking. But what about the food? You may have heard that “real” San Franciscans never eat on the Wharf.  If true, which I doubt, they are missing out on some truly delicious food.  Susan Dyer Reynolds writes the dining portion of the “Yummy Newsletter" and points out her fab five.

    • Whole roasted crab at The Franciscan – “roasted Dungeness crab ”Pier 43 1 / 2 (at The Embarcadero), 415-362-7733
    • Museum and Bakery Tour and a meal — Boudin – “One of the tour’s highlights is an exhibit featuring edibles and potables originating in the City, such as the martini, the Popsicle, the mai tai, and the fortune cookie.”160 Jefferson Street on Pier 43 1 / 2, 415-928-1849
    • Crab Louie at Fishermen’s Grotto #9 “only place I’ve found where you have to dig through the crab to find the lettuce.”
      Pier 45 (at The Embarcadero), 415-673-7025
    • Cioppino at Scoma’s – “serves a messy, satisfying bowl of rich tomato broth filled with shrimp, clams, scallops, fresh fish from their very own boat” Pier 47 (at Al Scoma Way), 415-771-4383
    • Fresh crab from Alioto-Lazio Fish Company  “freshest, most succulent Dungeness crab on the planet” 440 Jefferson Street, San Francisco, 1-888-673-5868

    Or as Dyer points out just stop at McCormick & Kuleto’s for oysters and a dry martini and watch the sunset. San Francisco is fabulous so take advantage.

Popular Business Book Shelf  

Read the latest business books from the New York Times and Business Week best sellers list. New titles are added monthly. Three of this month's additions:

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“The best introduction to and distillation of Drucker’s genius in existence”,  opines management guru Warren Bennis about Inside Drucker’s Brain by  Jeffrey A. Krames. He lays out quintessential lessons from Peter Drucker’s work on leadership, strategy, innovation, career development, and many other topics.  It also offers a blueprint for those managers who want to implement Drucker’s best concepts in their own organizations.  Arguing that Drucker’s greatest contribution was ‘a mind-set, not a methodology’, Krames explains how the thinker prodded managers to ask the right questions, to look beyond what they thought they knew, to focus on tomorrow not today.   The book is derived in part from an unprecedented daylong interview with Dr. Drucker, allowing the management-meister to speak candidly about his enormous body of work. HD31.D776K73 2008

 

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Tire of hearing the latest modern Gibbon declaim upon the decline and fall of America?  Thomas P. M. Barnett, author of the bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map, brings us an intriguing analysis  of the post-Bush world  --  and our leadership role in it.  In Great Powers:  America and the World After Bush, Barnett delivers a bold analysis of the grand global realignments that are here now or are coming fast in the spheres of economics, defense, technology and more.  He asserts that the ‘great powers’ of yesteryear now include not only nations but other powerful forces at move in the 21st century.  He urges a complete recalibration, but steadfastly believes  the opportunities are greater than the perils.   Writes Barnett, “America’s journey back to where we once belonged begins with one simple realization:  This is a world of our making”. E895.B38 2009

 

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Drawing on an extraordinary incident in the life of financier Jacqueline Novogratz, The Blue Sweater:  Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World shows how we on Planet Earth are all interconnected, how our actions  --  however small  --  can touch people across the globe in remarkable ways.  The title draws on the epiphany Novogratz experienced when she spotted, in Rwanda, someone wearing the actual blue sweater she had donated to Goodwill years before.  The author tells gripping stories of impoverished people fighting against the odds, and the entrepreneurs who work with them and for them.  Most importantly, she talks about ‘patient capital’  --  a new form of philanthropic investment that she believes can change millions of lives. HC79.P6N69 2009

 

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A timely addition to our collection is The Ethical Executive:  Becoming Aware of the Root Causes of Unethical Behavior.  Also subtitled  45 Psychological Traps That Every One of Us Falls Prey To, this book by Robert Hoyk and Paul Hersey makes the argument that the unethical executives whose names pepper our daily headlines are no different from any of us.  They, and we, can fall into psychological traps that create ‘webs of deceptions’  --  distortions of our moral bearings that can leave us believing  unethical behavior is normal and acceptable.  The authors argue that these traps have truly brought about many of today’s financial scandals.  In response, they offer a ‘real-world’ method for predicting, precluding and rescuing us from such pitfalls. HF5387.H69 2008

 

Jack's Favorite Quote of the Month


"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfullycommitted citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."



~Margaret Mead ~

1901 – 1978
American cultural anthropologist

 

Send your comments, questions, suggestions to [icon-email] Jan Driscoll.