AKE Group - Provides security and political risk management to businesses, NGOs and the media.
AllBusiness.com - Small business news, information and services, including human resource materials, sales and marketing solutions, expert advice on Internet and technology issues, and a marketplace that consolidates business-related purchasing into one, convenient location.
AllPages - U.S. business directory, yellow pages, phone book.
American Chamber of Commerce People's Republic of China - Represents U.S. companies and individuals doing business in China. The chamber membership comprises more than 1,550 individuals representing more than 750 companies.
Asia Business Today (ABT) - An online resource developed by the Asia Society for information on U.S./Asia economic and business relations, Asia's role in the international economy, and the costs and benefits of economic 'globalization.'
Asia-Pacific.com - Experts, resources and data for effective strategic management.
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) - With nearly $9 billion in revenues and over 585,000 clients, ADP is one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. ADP offers a wide range of HR, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and recreational vehicle dealers throughout the world.
Also see ADP Tools and Resources, including Calculators and Tools and Compliance Connection.
Baker Library (Harvard Business School) - Its collections, both physical and digital, cover most aspects of management including such specialties as accounting and control, agribusiness, banking, business and economic history, commerce, economic philosophy, finance, information technology, international business, management education, manufacturing, marketing, political economy, and transportation.
Best for Business - UK gateway to business information resources on the net.
Better Business Bureau (BBB) - Check out a company, file a complaint, dispute resolution, consumer and business guidance.
BizEd Internet - High quality Internet information for students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of business, management and economics. The Internet Catalogue contains over 2200 resources.
BizWeb - Web business guide to over 43,000 companies in 192 categories.
Bloomberg Government -
Comprehensive, subscription-based, online tool collects data, provides high-end analysis and analytic tools, and delivers deep, reliable, timely reporting from a team of more than 2,300 journalists and multimedia specialists worldwide.
BNET - Business, management, strategy, marketing intelligence for managerial professionals.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) - The BLS is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Business.com - Business search engine and directory helps users find companies, products, services, and business information.
Business 2.0 - Business and technology news from Business 2.0 magazine updated daily along with investing, marketing, research, company news and information including Business 2.0 lists and the Business 2.0 web guide.
Business Identification Number Cross-reference System (BINCS) - BINCS is an all in one search engine. You can search by CAGE Code, DUNS Number, Company Name, Phone Number, SIC/State, Company State, SIC, UPC/EAN, JCP Certification number and ZIP Code. BINCS searches multiple data bases such as the Central Contractor Registration (CCR), the Universal Directory of Commercial Items (UDCI), the U.S./Canada Joint Certification Program (JCP), the Commercial and Governmental Entity (CAGE) file and the Interactive Government Industry Reference Data Edit and Review (IGIRDER) systems to develop a broad profile of business entities doing business with the U.S. government.
Business Information Sources - A selective guide to Internet sites containing business information, with emphasis on UK sources. It is organized by type of information. Maintained by Sheila Webber. Search engines, company directories, company profiles, country information, news sources, and more.
Business Researcher's Interests - A research jumpstation for business research, international business, intellectual property, information policy, web strategy, marketing, and information systems research.
Business Roundtable - An association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. corporations.
Business Wire - Business Wire is the leading source for press releases, photos, multimedia and regulatory filings from companies and groups throughout the world.
Business Zone - UK site with business news and resources, including information on 1.7 million companies, in-depth industry reports, travel agents directory, consultants directory, training and conferences venues directory and more.
BusinessGreen.com -
News and advice for firms trying to reduce the environmental impact of their business operations, including reports on corporate social responsibility (CSR); green computing initiatives; paperless office technologies; efficient server and desktop equipment; low-power-consumption processors; teleworking, teleconferencing and telecommuting; technologies that can eliminate or reduce the need for business air travel; recycling and ethical disposal or IT equipment; plus other methods of reducing corporate CO2 output.
BuyUSA.gov - U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. department of Commerce provides help navigating international trade. Also visit the Export.gov Trade Portal.
CalGOLD - Provides businesses with information on permits and other requirements of California agencies at all levels of government, including addresses, telephone numbers, and links to agency Internet web pages.
California Department of Corporations - Regulates HMOs, the offer and sale of securities, franchises and off-exchange commodities, and transactions involving certain fiduciaries and lenders.
CCH Business and Finance ($) - A leading provider of business and finance products for research, planning and compliance.
Centurion Risk Assessment Services - Prepares people both mentally and practically for dangerous work in extreme conditions. These people are usually in the news media, international organisations, humanitarian aid agencies, charities and other Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and commercial businesses.
CEO Express - Sifts through world wide web information and critically selects the links that you need.
CIA World Factbook - Country profiles provide information on geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
CISG Database - The CISG is the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the uniform international sales law of countries that account for two-thirds of all world trade.
CNNMoney.com - Breaking business news on U.S. and international companies and newsmakers, earnings & stock quotes.
comScore, Inc. - Maintains massive proprietary databases that provide a continuous, real-time measurement of the myriad ways in which the Internet is used and the wide variety of activities that are occurring online.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - Provide the Congress with objective, timely, nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budget decisions and with the information and estimates required for the Congressional budget process.
CORI Contracts Database - The CORI K-Base is a growing Knowledge Base of Contract information, featuring a library of executed contracts and contract forms for a wide array of transaction types and industries. Over 600,000 contracts can be accessed using our full-text search engine. First-time users must complete a free registration.
Corporate Affiliations - Provides corporate linkage information on more than 170,000 of the most prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions-down to the seventh level of corporate linkage.
Corporate Governance in Russia - All investors, operating in Russia, face political risks, inefficiency of corporate governance and weak judicial system. Recently investors witnessed numerous violations of minority investors rights by Russian issuers. Among such violations there are: misrepresentation of information, dilution, dividend delays, degradation of assets and diversion of cash flows. The Investor Protection Association, which maintains this site, offers assistance to its members for the purpose of uniting investors' efforts aimed at protection of their rights and improvement of the corporate governance in Russia.
CorporateInformation - Corporate information from around the world - public or private, foreign or domestic. Research companies, industries and economic information in over 100 countries. Over 350,000 profiles are indexed.
CorpTech Database - Premier site for research on America's technology manufacturers and developers - 50,000 private and public companies creating tomorrow's high-tech products.
CSCt - Provides a corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company with a registered agent and/or registered office in the state where it is incorporated and the states in which it is qualified to conduct business.
CTAdvantage - Provides business and law firms with a full range of corporate and UCC services, from compliance filing, public record searching and document retrieval, to specialty services such as statutory representation, authentication, annual meeting and staffing services.
Custer Battles LLC- Managing external risks and crises for governments, multinational corporations and humanitarian relief organizations.
D&B - Maintains the world's largest business database containing information on more than 100 million businesses worldwide including 38 million in the United States. A leading provider of business information for credit, marketing, and purchasing decisions worldwide.
DealLawyers.com - This blog, an educational group that offers research on legal issues surrounding deal activity, dissects M&A flow based on both obscure and widely known legal issues. It evaluates private-equity involvement, recent arbitrations, cross-border transactions and other issues. It also examines deal technicalities like lock-ups, stapled financings and M&A accounting. Downsides to the blog, though, are that it's written with a lot of jargon and postings can be a little sparse.
Decision Strategies - Specializes in all aspects of corporate, criminal and financial investigations, background and due diligence inquiries, security audits, protecting proprietary information and in gathering litigation intelligence. Decision Strategies' clients include corporations, leading law firms, financial institutions, government agencies, foreign governments and businesses and private individuals.
Delaware: Division of Corporations - Official site for State of Delaware, Department of State, Division of Corporations. The State of Delaware is a leading domicile for U.S. and international corporations. More than half a million business entities have made Delaware their legal home including 280,000 corporations and 250,000 limited liability companies and partnerships. More than 50% of all publicly-traded companies in the United States including 58% of the Fortune 500 have chosen Delaware as their legal home.
Dialog (owned by ProQuest) - Its database catalog contains descriptions for more than 1,200 databases available on the Dialog and DataStar services.
Directory of Corporate Archives in the U.S. and Canada - Includes companies that maintain their historical records themselves as well as companies that contract with historical consulting firms to maintain their archives collections.
Disclosure - Financial and business information on U.S. and international companies.
DiversityBusiness.com - Resource portal for small businesses and large organizational buyers (i.e., Fortune 1000 Companies, government agencies and college/universities). Also see DiversityBusiness Magazine.
DiversityInc - National magazine providng information on benefits of diversity to businesses.
Doing Business in China - 2009 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies from U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service and the U.S. Department of State.
Duke/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey -
This survey "is conducted quarterly. The survey polls CFOs of both public and private companies around the globe." Provides a press release, summary of key results (for the U.S., Europe, Asia not including China, and China), an optimism index, detailed data tables, survey questions, and industry analysis based on the survey response data. Past results go back to 1996. From Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and CFO magazine.
Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) - Products and services drawn from a global database of 70 million companies. Business information gathered in 214 countries around the world, in 95 languages or dialects, covering 181 currencies.
e-Secretary of State Information - Links to state-specific information about corporations, state corporation filing fees, and contact information for each of the 50 State Offices responsible for corporate filings.
Earnings.com - Latest corporate information direct from companies involved. Live webcasts, free annual reports, Investment Event Calendar, managament presentations, company FAQs, interactive information requests, corporate governance, management bios, insider transactions.
Economic Indicators - Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors and provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance.
Economic Information Systems (EIS) - Provides free analysis of economic conditions and trends for the nation, all 50 states, and 60 metro areas, with data and charts that may be downloaded for use in your reports.
Economic Policy Institute (EPI) - The mission of the Economic Policy Institute is to provide high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy. The Institute stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards of working people, and it makes its findings accessible to the general public, the media, and policy makers.
EDGAR Database - The Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Also see EDGAR Search to search the full text of EDGAR filings from the last two years.
EDGAR Online People - Searches SEC Filings by a person's name or displays all people associated with a specific company name.
EIU.com - From the Economist intelligence unit - subscription or pay as you go options available, "analysis and forecasts on more than 200 countries and eight key industries.
Employease - Provides Internet Business Service for managing and communicating human resource, personnel management, employee benefits and payroll information.
Employer ID Numbers (EINs) - An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number, and is used to identify a business entity. Generally, businesses need an EIN. You may apply for an EIN in various ways, and now you may apply online . You must check with your state to make sure you need a state number or charter.
Ethisphere -
The research-based Ethisphere Institute is a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability. The Institute’s associated membership group, the Ethisphere Council, is a forum for business ethics that includes over 200 leading corporations, universities and institutions. The Ethisphere Council is dedicated to the development and advancement of individuals on its membership council through increased efficiency, innovation, tools, mentoring, advice, and unique career opportunities. Ethisphere Magazine, which publishes the globally recognized World’s Most Ethical Companies Ranking, is the quarterly publication of the Institute.
Europages - European business directory. Has 1,500,000 European and international suppliers, manufacturers and distributors listed in its directory.
eWatch - With monitoring from eWatch, you can immediately track your print and online media coverage plus monitor blogs, portals and public discussion areas on the Internet to find what's being said about your organization, competitors or industry.
ExecutiveJet/NetJets - Industry-leading program of fractional aircraft ownership, offers companies and individuals all the benefits of private flying at a fraction of the cost. Offers clients the finest light, midsize and large cabin aircraft in the world, including: Boeing, Cessna, Falcon, Gulfstream and Raytheon.
ExecutivePlanet.com - Business etiquette, customs, and culture in top U.S. trading partner nations.
facta - A leading, full-service market research, business intelligence and consulting firms with a particular emphasis on the healthcare industry in emerging markets.
Factiva from Dow Jones - Provides access to a collection of more than 14,000 business sources that include: The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles.
Financial Scandals - Links to information on frauds, scams and scandals in banking, finance, and related areas.
Financial Times - World business, finance and political news.
FindLaw: Corporate Counsel Center - Articles, news, business contracts, court dockets and research tools for aerospace, defense, automobile, construction, consumer products, drugs, biotech, energy, financial services, banking, food, agriculture, health care, insurance, manufacturing, media, entertainment, natural resources, real estate, retail, services, technology, telecommunications, transportation, travel, leisure, hospitality, utilities, wholesale, arbitration, mediation, alternative dispute resolution, bankruptcy, class action corporate governance, environmental govenrment relations, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities, tax, tax-exempt organizations, white collar crime corporate counsel, corporate lawyers, in-house counsel, in-house lawyers and business lawyers, lawyers and attorneys.
Fitch Ratings - A leading global rating agency committed to providing the world's credit markets with accurate, timely and prospective credit opinions.
Forrester Research - Identifies and analyzes emerging trends in technology and their impact on business. Customer trends, business strategy, technology investment.
Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki - This is a directory of Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs, defined as: active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products.
Forbes.com - Business information services and lifestyle editorial content designed to serve the needs of business leaders, professionals, investors and affluent consumers. Daily original reporting on the business of technology; real-time business information news updates; complete online editions of Forbes magazine, Forbes Global, Forbes ASAP and Forbes FYI; a powerful search engine with the option to access all current and archived Forbes content or to conduct a full Web search; stock and mutual fund stock quotes, and comprehensive company profiles; Best of The Web guide; interactive tools, calculators and databases, including the annual Forbes Lists.
California Secretary of State Business Programs - Through this portal find information you need to start and file a business entity in California. Access information relating to business entity and other statutorily required filings, trademarks, service marks, UCC financing statements and notary public commissions. See general information, forms, and fees for corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, general partnerships, limited liability partnerships, trademarks and service marks, and miscellaneous filings. Additional sections include: California Business Search, Starting a Business, E-file Statement of Information, Forms/Samples, Notary Public, Uniform Commercial Code, Special Filings, International Business Relations Program.