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Faith Ladd, 5-Year-Old Girl, Identifies Brand Logos In Adorable Project (VIDEO)
Tried to e-mail for the college of design and the marketing department, but e-mail didn’t work….Oh well….HSM
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Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
ThomasNet® - Product Sourcing and Supplier Discovery Platform
ThomasNet® - Product Sourcing and Supplier Discovery Platform
“usually don’t add items that I know about and aren’t likely to forget, but the product news and guides areas ore new to me having not visited the site recently ….” HSM
ThomasNet, powered by Thomas Register® and Thomas Regional®, is an industrial search engine that provides one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier –quickly and efficiently. ThomasNet provides direct access to the detailed information needed to make a purchasing or specifying decision, including line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more.
ThomasNet is brought to you by Thomas Industrial Networksm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company. Thomas has been connecting industrial buyers and suppliers for over 100 years
ThomasNet Product News Room provides current, reliable industrial news articles which are delivered on a timely basis covering the whole range of products from adhesives through waste handling equipment. This premier news source serves the new product information needs of the industrial marketplace through websites, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, e-marketplaces and online publications.
ThomasNet Need-To-Know Guides
- Maybe you're just looking for some ground-level information. Maybe you need to make an informed sourcing decision. Whatever the reason, whatever you're looking for, these primers, briefs, articles and guides serve as your gateway to learning more. Each resource category offers a wealth of information aimed at providing you with the background and facts you need. Whether you're trying to track down the basics on a certain manufacturing process or deciding between various equipment vendors, ThomasNet's Need-to-Know Guides connects you to key industry info.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Green Business News, Resources, and Sustainability Career Tools | Business | GreenBiz.com
Green Business News, Resources, and Sustainability Career Tools | Business | GreenBiz.com
Our mission is to provide clear, concise, accurate, and balanced information, resources, and learning opportunities to help companies of all sizes and sectors integrate environmental responsibility into their operations in a manner that supports profitable business practices.
Our goals are to:
- Be the leading source of news and opinion on business and the environment.
- Serve as an information clearinghouse on green business practices, offering resources from companies, nongovernmental organizations, trade associations, government agencies, academic institutions, and thought leaders.
- Help readers turn information into knowledge and action by providing hands-on tools, expert advice, and case studies.
- Provide access to environmental sources and products.
- Facilitate increased communication, information sharing, and learning among green professionals and other interested parties.
- Promote increased understanding of green business practices to government entities, nongovernmental organizations, news media, investors, students and academics, and the public at large.
- Provide deep, vertical coverage of green business by sector and job function, ranging from product design to facility management, information technology to branding and marketing.
What We Believe
- A revolution is taking place that is leading companies of all sizes and sectors to comprehensively address environmental issues as part of their strategy and operations -- rethinking their policies, processes, and products, and their relationships with a variety of stakeholders and trading partners.
- Environmental concerns have resulted in a confluence of technologies, innovations, and creative thinking being unleashed that is enabling companies to transform such challenges into new business opportunities and competitive advantage.
- Companies address their environmental impacts in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons -- some voluntarily and others less so -- but all should be welcome and encouraged, regardless of their motivations or levels of commitment.
- Companies that go beyond society's regulations and expectations in addressing their environmental challenges often find that they can create new forms of business value, including both tangible and intangible measures of success.
- Those working inside companies -- from owners and bosses to managers and line employees -- overwhelmingly want their companies to be good corporate citizens, though most individuals lack the time, expertise, or resources to make significant changes.
- No company, even the most committed, will ever be perfect, from an environmental perspective, though they should be encouraged to continually improve their performance, and to make bold commitments and actions.
- Companies can be a powerful force for good, helping to solve the planet's and society's most pressing problems -- and do so in a way that aligns with their business goals and objectives.
- The time for companies to act is short, and the challenges are great -- but so are the opportunities.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Advertising Collections - Duke Libraries
Advertising Collections - Duke Libraries
This is a portal to search and explore all of the digitized advertisements from Duke University Libraries' digital collections. The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke's Special Collection Library acquires and preserves printed material and collections of textual and multimedia resources and makes them available to researchers around the world. Through these collections and related programming, the Center promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.
Had hoped to feed my Mad Men obsession, but most of the works in the Ad Access collection end in the 1950’s….
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
North American Transportation Statistics
North American Transportation Statistics
The need for North American Transportation Statistics reflects the increase in global economic growth and greater integration of trade, finance and manufacturing in recent decades. Transportation is vital in the changing global economy, linking people and places, businesses and consumers, facilitating trade and tourism, and contributing to economic development. The North American experience mirrors these worldwide trends. Reduced trade barriers and increased personal mobility have created a heightened need for information on transportation infrastructure and services among Canada, the United States, and Mexico. While the positive contributions of transportation to the national economies and to the daily life of people everywhere are important, transportation also has adverse impacts. Transportation accidents are a major cause of death and injury every year in North America. Transportation consumes significant amounts of energy, mainly derived from petroleum and also contributes to environmental problems.
The On-Line Database provides for the first time a central web based source for North American transportation statistics for all three countries on common subjects. The working group members evaluate each table for data comparability and note all definitional differences among the three countries. Accurate data, comparable across modes and countries, is important to understand changes in dynamic transportation markets; to evaluate transportation benefits and impacts; and to support critical decision-making in the public and private sectors.
Friday, May 6, 2011
LABORSTA Internet (E)
Welcome to LABORSTA Internet!
View and download data and metadata for over 200 countries or territories from LABORSTA, an International Labour Office database on labour statistics operated by the ILO Department of Statistics
What's new ?
- Short term indicators of the labour market
- Direct access to all country profiles (XLS PDF)
- Direct access to all selected series by country (XLS PDF)
- Rural Labour Statistics Dataset (CSV)
- Syntopicon of Rural Labour Statistics (PDF)
- Rural Analytical Results (PDF)
- Labour Statistics for Rural Development (PDF)
Statistics by topic
[ By country - By publication ]
Total and Economically Active Population
- Main statistics (annual): economically active population by age group, by level of education and age group, by industry and status in employment, by occupation and status in employment, by industry and by occupation
- Economically Active Population Estimates and Projections 1980-2020 (EAPEP)
Employment
- Main statistics (annual): employment general level, by economic activity, by occupation, by status in employment - paid employment by economic activity, in manufacturing
- Main statistics (monthly): employment general level - paid-employment in non-agricultural activities, in manufacturing
- Employment for detailed occupational groups by sex (SEGREGAT)
- ILO-Comparable Estimates - adjusted annual average employment and unemployment estimates (ILOCE)
- Public sector employment
- Distribution of the employed population by hours of work
Unemployment
- Main statistics (annual): unemployment general level, by age group, by level of education, by economic activity, by occupation
- Main statistics (monthly): unemployment general level
- ILO-Comparable Estimates - Adjusted annual average employment and unemployment estimates (ILOCE)
Hours of Work
- Main statistics (annual): hours of work by economic activity, in manufacturing
- Main statistics (monthly): hours of work per week in non-agricultural activities, in manufacturing
- Wages and hours of work in 159 occupations (ILO October Inquiry)
- Distribution of the employed population by hours of work
Wages
- Main statistics (annual): wages by economic activity, in manufacturing
- Main statistics (monthly): wages in non-agricultural activities, in manufacturing
- Wages and hours of work in 159 occupations (ILO October Inquiry)
Labour Cost
- Main statistics (annual): labour cost in manufacturing
Consumer Price Indices
- Main statistics (annual): general indices, general indices excluding housing, food indices, electricity, gas and other fuels indices, clothing indices, rent indices
- Main statistics (monthly): general indices, food indices
- Retail prices of 93 food items (ILO October Inquiry)
Occupational Injuries
- Main statistics (annual): cases of injury with lost workdays, rates of occupational injuries, days lost by economic activity
Strikes and Lockouts
- Main statistics (annual): strikes and lockouts, workers involved, days not worked, rates of days not worked by economic activity
Household Income and Expenditure
- Statistics (HIES)
International Labour Migration
- Statistics
Metadata
- Definitions
- Classifications: description of the international classifications used
- Sources and Methods, Labour Statistics: methodological descriptions of national statistics by source
LABORSTA Internet for ILO Offices
Friday, April 22, 2011
PopTech : Home
What is PopTech?
PopTech is a unique innovation network – a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines, who come together to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world’s most significant challenges. We are known for our thriving community of thought-leaders, breakthrough innovation programs, visionary annual conferences and deep media and storytelling capabilities.
Why We Exist
PopTech’s mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world changing people, projects and ideas. We do this by creating transformational experiences that showcase the ideas, trends, challenges and opportunities that are shaping the future. PopTech fosters breakthrough, multidisciplinary collaborations that help individuals, companies and organizations work together to change the world. Participating in PopTech offers a firsthand glimpse of the future, and a chance to influence innovation.
Videos in the following areas:
Business
Design
Energy
Entertainment
Environment
Health
Music
Science
Society
Technology
Friday, April 15, 2011
Tax Policy Center home
The Tax Policy Center is a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. The Center is made up of nationally recognized experts in tax, budget, and social policy who have served at the highest levels of government.
What We Do
TPC provides timely, accessible analysis and facts about tax policy to policymakers, journalists, citizens, and researchers. Its major products are
Model estimates: The TPC Microsimulation Model produces revenue and distribution estimates for the latest tax proposals and bills. More information about the tax model is available in the overview and FAQ.
Library: Research by TPC staff is disseminated in a variety of publications, including two TPC series - Issues and Options briefs and Discussion papers. The TPC also has regular columns in Tax Notes magazine.
Tax Facts: The Tax Facts database compiles facts and figures from government agencies and other sources.
The Tax Policy Briefing Book: A Citizens' Guide for the 2008 Election and Beyond A handy primer on how the tax system works."— Tom Herman, WSJ. A compendium of information on a host of questions likely to be addressed during the 2008 presidential election debate and beyond. This briefing book is intended as a resource for the public, the press, and even the presidential campaigns-in short, for anyone who wants to be well informed about current tax and budget matters.
TaxVox The Tax Policy Center's tax and budget policy blog. Join the discussion on tax legislation, administration, and more.
U.S. Commercial Service : Your Global Business Partner
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Market Research Library
The Market Research Library is an online database of international market research reports and documents.
Current online version: 3.01.2
Last modification: 10/20/2010 03:12:16 PM
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Exporting Questions? Email the Trade Information Center or call 1-800-USA-TRADE.
Industry Questions? Lookup our Industry Analysts.
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Data | The World Bank
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.
World Development Indicators 2011 database and publication available now
Country Risk and Economic Research–COFACE
http://www.coface.com/CofacePortal/COM_en_EN/pages/home/risks_home
Country Risk and Economic Research
There are three categories of economic studies :
Country risks
Consult the evolutions of Coface country ratings (re-examined each quarter), Country analysis and forecasts prepared by the Economic Research and Country Risk Department of Coface and methodology of Country Rating.
The Coface country rating aims at evaluating the average credit risk of companies in a given country. The rating is based on economic, financial and political data. But it also takes into account Coface experience on the country, under two dimensions: Coface’s payment experience on the companies of the country and also its assessment of the Business climate.
Sectors
In this section, you can find the evolutions of the sector ratings (reviewed twice a year), and the studies on sectors prepared by the Economic Research and Country Risk Department of Coface. Methodology of Sector Rating is also available.
The sector rating aims at evaluating the credit risk of corporate of a given sector. It uses Macroeconomic data and forecasts of the given sector, the payment experience registered by Coface on the companies of this sector and an assessment of the financial situation of the companies given by the Coface rating of the companies belonging to the rated sector.
Business Climate
Consult the evolutions of Coface Business Climate rating and its methodology.
The Business climate rating assessed by Coface aims at measuring the quality of the private governance in a given country and more specifically the financial transparency of companies and the efficiency of the court system for settling debt issues. It is bases on a survey filled by all Coface entities in the world and completed by business environment rating prepared by international organisations.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Bloomberg - Business & Financial News, Breaking News Headlines
Bloomberg - Business & Financial News, Breaking News Headlines
In 1981 Bloomberg started out with one core belief: that bringing transparency to capital markets through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of doing business. Today’s Bloomberg builds on that foundation - everything we do connects decision makers in business, finance and government to a broad and dynamic network of information, news, people and ideas that enables faster, more effective decisions. Come see how we do it.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Data | The World Bank
The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.
Find an indicator
Browse data
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania
Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania
The Penn World Table (PWT) displays a set of national accounts economic time series covering many countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common currency so that real quantity comparisons can be made, both between countries and over time. It also provides information about relative prices within and between countries, as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates. Since the regionalization of the ICP beginning with the 1980 benchmark, Summers and Heston at Penn have been using ICP benchmark comparisons (see About the ICP) as a basis for estimating PPPs for non-benchmark countries and extrapolations backward and forward in time. These are the major components of Penn World Tables or PWT. An early version of this technique was developed with Irving Kravis (1978): Kravis,I., R. Summers and A.Heston (1978). "Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries," Economic Journal , June.
The Penn World Tables are described in Robert Summers and Alan Heston "The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988", Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991, pp.327--368. (See Research Papers) The table itself, an annex to the article, was distributed to users on a diskette and through anonymous ftp by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A revised and updated version of PWT 5, PWT 5.5, was made available in 1993. Version 5.6 was released January 1995. It was prepared by Alan Heston and Robert Summers of the University of Pennsylvania, Daniel A. Nuxoll of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Bettina Aten of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (now at the Bureau of Economic Analysis), with the research assistance of Valerie Mercer, James Walsh, and Bao Truong. The current version of Penn World Tables, PWT 6, is produced by The Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania ( see About CIC ). PWT 6 has been prepared by Aten, Heston and Summers with the assistance of Mark McMullen, Feng Zhu, Sham Shah and Prajesh Parekh. Robert Feenstra of the University of California, Davis, has been consulting with CICUP in preparing PWT 6 and will jointly produce subsequent versions through the Center for International Data at Davis, and in association with the NBER.
The Table contains data on about 30 variables for about 167 countries over some or all the years 1950-98. As PWT 6 is modified these will be described in What is new? What is Different? PWT is built up through a set of sophisticated extrapolations from the successive benchmark studies, both through time and across space. The Penn World Table is a forerunner of a new kind of international data base that may be described as a Space-Time System of National Accounts. PWT 6 is comparable to previous versions of the table. However, the methodology of these comparisons is still being developed so that future versions may move in the direction of national accounts constant price series, namely chaining or use stochastic methods of aggregation. While chaining over time is natural, in that time is sequential, chaining across countries does not have such an obvious path, which is why work along these lines has only been preliminary.
Using PWT
Many users of PWT 5.6 may want to refer to those files and documentation so they remain on this site. The most obvious difference between PWT 5.6 and 6 is that the base year has been moved from 1985 to 1996. A second difference, largely cosmetic, is that some of the variables have been renamed and the order has been slightly altered. This should be clear in the list of variables for PWT 6. As noted the present coverage is 1950-2000.
In addition to the description of PWT cited above, there are two other pieces of documentation. First, the data Appendix of PWT 5.6 may be consulted. Second, we have created a more readable Data Appendix for PWT 6, with the treatment of China provided as a separate China Appendix. Also, the national accounts file underlying PWT 6.1 is provided as a separate file in Downloads.
Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania
MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format
MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format
MarketingCharts is a Watershed Publishing publication. It is published daily in the US by its own staff, and also features editorial contributions from other writers and analysts in the Watershed Publishing network. MarketingCharts is a sister publication to MarketingVox, MediaBuyerPlanner and Retailer Daily.
Ad sales are handled by Watershed’s Justin Martin, who can be reached via email » justin@watershed-publishing.com or via phone at (406) 371-5687.
Editor Victoria Petrock can be reached via email » editorial@marketingcharts.com. Tips, press releases, suggestions, and questions about other editorial matters are welcomed and read avidly.
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MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format
Monday, February 9, 2009
Labordoc home page
Labordoc contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights. Labordoc provides an ever increasing number of links to online publications available on the Internet.
BusinessDictionary.com - Online Business Dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com - Online Business Dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com features over 20,000 definitions and over 115,000 links between related terms providing a clear and concise description of any and all business terms. To succeed in business, it's absolutely essential to have a solid understanding of the terms and concepts used every day in the business world. We have designed our dictionary to help you gain the knowledge you need to achieve your goals in business and in life.
BusinessDictionary.com includes a powerful search tool (at the top of every page), a browse by letter feature, and subject-specific dictionaries to help you learn the terminology you're interested in. In addition, you can subscribe to our free email newsletter, and receive a new term and definition each day, along with links to related information, so you can easily build your knowledge of business lingo every day. We hope you decide to bookmark the BusinessDictionary.com home page and use it whenever you need an accurate, precise definition of a business term.
BusinessDictionary.com is operated by WebFinance Inc., an internet company that designs, builds and nurtures business opportunities where technology and finance intersect. Among WebFinance's other properties are InvestorGuide.com (a comprehensive investor portal) and InvestorWords.com (a financial and investment dictionary). Our goal is to help as many people as possible, and for this reason everything we provide is free. Our sites are collectively used by over a half million people every month.
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