dboerner on April 1st, 2009

Trying to figure out rules of business etiquette in Botswana?  Check out the TCU database, Global Road Warrior.  It covers lots of other areas too: Business Women, Money and Banking, Travel Essentials, Country Facts, etc.
Wanting an investment overview of Bangladesh?  Try the TCU database, CountryWatch.  Click on the “Country Reviews” tab at the top.  It [...]

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dboerner on March 26th, 2009

Here’s a nice website that I came across while going through book review cards (Ironic, isn’t it?).Â
http://www.iii.org/financial2/
It is the Financial Services Fact Book, and the website provides information on the financial services industry including insurance, banking, mortgage, securities, and finance.  I’ll provide a smattering of some of the data they provide:  Mergers, Leading Companies, Educational Plans [...]

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I had a question in a class about this and didn’t really have an answer.  Now I have an answer.
Here’s the short version for those in a hurry (click on the hyperlinked text to get the complete answer directly from the census bureau with a cherry on top!):
Census tracts are subdivisions of a [...]

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dboerner on September 22nd, 2008

Looking for Gallup Polls?  Try the database, LexisNexis Academic.  Here’s what a LexisNexis representative wrote:
Gallup Poll News Service      Â
Description: The Gallup Poll News Service is the internet’s leading polling-based news source.  The Gallup Poll News Service provides news centered on public opinion. Published each business day, articles from the Gallup Poll News Service analyze findings [...]

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