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Business
Information Workshops - Fall 2008
Below is an alphabetical listing of our library workshops for this semester. Registration is required for each session; a registration link follows the workshop description. If you have a question about any of our workshops, or have an idea for an additional workshop, please use our Ask A Librarian form.
Workshop Guides
Beyond Facebook: Using Web 2.0 in Business: Learn how to use a variety of technologies that make keeping up-to-date and in-touch easier. Keep track of the latest business news in blogs and newspapers via RSS feeds, use your social network for research and job opportunities, and share/edit a document with your team online. Be sure to bring your laptop!
Register online.
- October 6: 4:00-5:00, Sage Hall room 127
Entrepreneurial Resources for Business Plans: Writing a business plan? This workshop provides time-saving research strategies and demonstrates key resources used in successful business plan writing. This class will overview resources that: provide industry trends, identify competitors, and assess your customer market. Be sure to bring your laptop!
Register online.
- September 24: 5:00-6:00, Sage Hall room 141
- October 28: 4:00-5:00, Sage Hall room 127
Consumer Market Research: This hands-on class for consumer market research will demonstrate the best resources for researching market share, brands, and consumer expenditures. Databases that will be demonstrated include: Mintel (consumer market trends), Global Market Information Database (international markets), SimplyMap (US market data by geography) and Simmons' Choices 3 (brand-level data).
Register online.
- September 16: 4:00-5:00, Parker Center
- October 27: 6:00-7:00, Parker Center
International Business Resources: Learn how to use a variety of library databases focusing on the international business information that allows you to analyze business risk. Learn how to find economic indicators, international market and industry data, and country risk ratings. Be sure to bring your laptop!
Register online.
- November 10: 4:00-5:00 Sage Hall room 127
Interview Preparation: Research Makes the Difference: Do you want to be well-prepared at corporate briefings? Are you starting out in your search for a job and aren't sure where to begin? This class will give you hands-on practice using the best tools for company and industry research. Whether you're looking for a summer internship or beginning an independent job search, this class is for you. Be sure to bring your laptop!
Register online.
- September 30: 4:00-5:00, Sage Hall room 127
- October 20: 5:00-6:00, Sage Hall room 141
- November 3: 5:00-6:00, Sage Hall room 127
Introduction to Bloomberg: Become familiar with Bloomberg, one of the world's premier financial databases. Learn how to find the data to evaluate equities, assess market conditions, analyze industries, and use various valuations. Attendance to this workshop is kept small so that all will be able to have some hands-on time with the database.
Register online.
- September 3: 6:00-7:00, Parker Center
- September 8: 6:00-7:00, Parker Center
- September 9: 4:00-5:00, Parker Center
- September 15: 6:00-7:00, Parker Center
- October 7: 4:00-5:00, Parker Center
- November 4: 4:00-5:00, Parker Center
Research Starter Kit - Come for one or stay for all! This series of three back-to-back workshops is designed to prepare you for your business research needs in less than 90 minutes. The kit includes a 15-minute library tour covering course reserves, specialty databases, and the best study spots. Following the tour is New to Cornell? which demonstrates how to get the most out of the Cornell Library system such as reference assistance, book delivery, off-campus access, and more. The kit is finished off with the Top 4 in 40: Business Research Essentials where, in 40 minutes, you get hands on time with the four main resources you will use in your business studies: Factiva (articles), Market Insight (industry reports), Investext Plus (analyst reports), and Thomson One Banker (company overviews and financials). Be sure to bring your laptop!
Register online.
- August 25: 3:00-4:30, Sage Hall room B01
- August 25: 4:00-5:30, Sage Hall room B10
- August 26: 3:00-4:30, Sage Hall room B08
- August 26: 4:00-5:30, Sage Hall room B01
- September 3: 3:00-4:30, Sage Hall room 131
- September 3: 4:00-5:30, Sage Hall room 127
Workshop Guides
Guides will be posted throughout the semester
Information about the LSP program can be found on the Program for Leadership page of the Johnson School web site.
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