Tripping Thru Business

Vaccine Patches

2010-05-14T07:22:00.000-07:00

Researchers in Japan have now invented vaccine patches. Design features a series of microscopic needles that dissolve on contact with the skin, releasing vaccine ingredients.
Ref: Daily Telegraph/Brainmail

Karioke Capitalism

2010-03-29T18:05:00.000-07:00

Check out this radio broadcast on "To the Best of Our Knowledge" on a new book called "Karaoke Capitalism: Daring to Be Different in a Copycat World." Ridderstrale and Nordstrom focus the challenges of business leadership in a world increasingly defined by individualism. "Karaoke" capitalism refers to the philosophy of imitation, ingrained into the corporate mindset by such popular concepts as benchmarking and best practice. For Ridderstrale and Nordstrom, the only way to survive is to chuck convention, to embrace your company's individual personality and promote it through everything you do

http://broadcast.uwex.edu:8080/ramgen/wpr/bok/bok090524b.rm

Segement starts at 42:24 and goes to 46:06

Interview with 3M CEO George Buckley

2010-03-02T06:11:00.000-08:00

From a WSJ article 3/1/2010 "At 3M, Innovation Comes in Tweaks and Snips" : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703787304575075590963046162.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

"Everybody wants to find out how to can creativity. You can't. Creativity comes from freedom, not control."
George Buckley 3M

Watch video snippets:

Funding Universe

2010-02-26T04:28:00.000-08:00

Funding Universe is a free website that has collected company histories. I believe this is the same company information that is provided in Business & Company Resource Center.

Industry Norms and Ratios — Financial and Marketing

2010-02-03T09:35:00.000-08:00

Industry Norms and Ratios covers industry norms and ratios for various industries and discusses models and "things of interest around industry data and analysis." Blog is run by Vince Mautone VP of product development and client services at Oxxford Information Technology.

Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series

2010-01-09T19:35:00.000-08:00

A collection of 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series is now available in Business Source Complete.

These videos feature lectures from Harvard Business School faculty members, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.

Each video contains a table of contents, allowing viewers to jump to a specific topic, and many also provide a transcript in PDF format.

Business Source Complete is available to current FSU students, faculty, staff, visitors on the library's A-Z database page.

Here is a list of the videos listed in the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.

For more information on these videos, please read the documentation, or contact me at"twyckoff@fsu.edu."

Bankrupcy Database

2009-12-14T16:39:00.000-08:00

Free database of major bankruptcies since 1986. It is primarily publicly traded companies and selected private companies. You can search by company name, asset size, business type, and bankrupcy start date.
http://www.bankruptcydata.com/findabrtop.asp

7 Secrets of a Steve Jobs Presentation

2009-11-08T10:12:00.000-08:00

From Washington Post article November 4, 2009 by Carmine Gallo:
http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/leadership_playlist/2009/11/seven-secrets-of-a-steve-jobs-presentation.html

Sell dreams, not products.
Create Twitter-friendly headlines.
Introduce the antagonist.
Stick to the rule of three.
Strive for simplicity.
Reveal a "Holy Smokes" moment.
Share the stage.

New Database: IBISWorld

2009-11-08T10:04:00.000-08:00

IBISWorld is provided through the generous support of the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship in partnership with the University Libraries.

IBISWorld covers over 700 industries in the United States , over 60 global industry reports, as well as, 160 industry reports for China. Research reports contain trends, statistics and analysis on market size, market share of competitors, and industry growth rates. Performance analysis includes emerging industry trends as well as recent production performance and 5 year forecasts. Company Reports on over 8000 US, Canadian and global public trade companies, sourced via Hemscott. Our subscription also includes over 300 economic and demographic reports.
Access the database on campus and off-campus (using library's proxy) from here: http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/ibisworld

New Database: BizMiner

2009-11-06T08:01:00.001-08:00

BizMiner is provided through the generous contribution of the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship in partnership with the University Libraries.

BizMiner provides detailed industry analysis and market research reports on more than 16,000 lines of business for the U.S. and local markets. Reports cover industry financial data, sole proprietor/startup profit & loss and business failure statistics at the national, state and local level. Also includes market research and demographic data, as well as, local market vitality profiles for starting businesses. BizMiner accesses over half a billion sourced data points from eighteen million business operations for each of its twice annual updates.
Access the database on campus and off-campus (using library's proxy) from here: http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/bizminer

RiskMetrics buys KLD Research & Analytics' Socrates

2009-11-03T15:56:00.000-08:00

RiskMetrics Group (NYSE: RMG), a leading provider of risk management and corporate governance services to the global financial community, today announced it has acquired KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. Headquartered in Boston, KLD is a leader in environmental, social and governance (ESG) research and indexes for institutional investors.

How many small businesses are there in the United States?

2009-11-01T12:25:00.000-08:00

This information is taken from the National Federation of Independent Business 411 Small Business Facts
http://www.411sbfacts.com/speeches.html#q1

"There are three generally correct, though very different, answers. But it is important to distinguish between businesses and business owners. Because many businesses have more than one owner and many owners have more than one business, the two are not necessarily identical. However, we often assume they are.

29 million – There were almost 29 million federal income tax returns filed in 2004 with business income on them. (Source: Statistics of Income (SOI), Internal Revenue Service.) Due to tax filing requirements, that number includes both individuals and businesses. The very largest and the very smallest, including those with sales of just a few dollars, are counted.

15.75 million – Self-employment, i.e., operating one’s own business regardless of its legal form, is the principal occupation in the year for nearly 16 million people (2005). (Source: Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration from data produced by Bureau of the Census.) This figure technically measures the number of people working in their own businesses, not businesses per se.

almost 6 million – Nearly 6 million businesses in the United States employ people other than their owners at some point during the year. (Source: Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration.)

Ninety-nine (99) percent of employing businesses are “small” under prevailing definitions. Another way to look at it: 60 percent of all businesses that employ people other than the owners have 1 to 4 employees; another 20 percent have 5 to 9 employees; and yet another 10 percent have 10 to 19 employees. Businesses employing fewer than 100 people (excluding the self-employed who employ no one but themselves) constitute 96 percent of all employers (Source: calculations by NFIB Research Foundation from data published by the Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration.)"

Prying Eyes

2009-10-27T18:21:00.000-07:00

For the engineering geeks in the COB, EDN Magazine’s popular department that involves tearing apart a product to examine the engineering inside. Recently looks include the Microsoft's Zune HD and the T-Mobile's myTouch 3G.
http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=news&spacedesc=PryingEyes

Top 100 Companies of the Muslim World

2009-10-27T18:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.dinarstandard.com/rankings/ds100/index.html

Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page

2009-10-27T18:18:00.000-07:00

A comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting. The core data sets involve US macroeconomic data (that is, for the whole US), but the bulk of the data is employment data by local area -- state, county, MSA, and many cities and towns.
http://www.economagic.com/

Poll Everywhere

2009-10-27T10:25:00.000-07:00

This is an odd one, more of a resource than a database. Poll Everywhere allows one to give a live audience an instant real-time poll, to text or Twitter back their selections, and to instantly display the results of the survey in a PowerPoint slide to that group. Free for one user for up to 30 responders with an inexpensive sliding scale.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/

SAS 70: Statement of Auditing Standards- Finding Examples

2009-10-24T12:42:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of ways to find SAS 70 examples:
1. Search ABI/Inform Global for press releases for "successful SAS 70 audits"
2. Search Google for the phrase " Service Auditor's Report".

I found serveral reports plus a couple of accounting firm templates for creating the form.

Sustainability Companies

2009-10-24T12:28:00.000-07:00

Inc Magazine's The Eco-Advantage is an annual look at companies on the cutting edge of sustainability and the innovative entrepreneurs behind them. This has been done since 2006 in a couple of forms. Here are the last few years:
2008
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081101/blue-is-the-new-green.html
2007
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20071101/nothing-but-green-skies.html
2006
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20061101/green50_intro.html

Looking for female Finance mentors?

2009-10-24T12:24:00.000-07:00

American Banker magazine gives an award every year for the Top 25 Women in Banking. They also cover top 25 Non-Bank Women in Finance and top Banking Teams.
http://www.25mpwib.com/

Blogging Ideas

2009-10-24T12:18:00.000-07:00

Blogs are a lot harder than they look. Coming up with material is a constant chore and it is important to make sure the reasons for starting remain in your best interest. Here's a great site for making these decisions and coming up with ways to make your blog relevant.

ProBlogger
http://www.problogger.net/

2009 Green Rankings

2009-09-21T06:30:00.000-07:00

Newsweek has just published the Green Rankings, an environmental ranking of America's 500 largest corporations. Top 10 companies are:Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Johnson & Johnson, Intel, IBM, State Street, Nike, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Applied Materials, Starbucks
Find it here: http://greenrankings.newsweek.com/