200 Best Small Companies in America - Forbes has been ranking the 200 best small publicly held companies in America for 20 years and now has the data for the most recent three years on the Web. Sort by state, industry, company name, overall rank, rank by 5 year average ROE (return on equity), sales, profits, or market value.
3M Meeting Network, The - devoted to making business meetings better; full of tips, advice, guidance, research articles, product information and an on-line YellowPages of professional meeting facilitators.
ABC's of Small Business - Articles and tips on starting and maintaining a small business can be found at this site.
America's Career InfoNet - Occupational and employment information from America's Job Bank. Includes overviews of the job market for the U.S. and for all fifty states. Profiles over 750 specific occupations, including detailed salary and wages information by state and county from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Annual Report Gallery - "The Report Gallery is the most complete and up-to-date listing of Annual Reports and related financial reports online today. Save time and paper by researching your reports online. The Report Gallery currently lists over 2,200 Annual Reports and covers the majority of the fortune 500 companies."
Business.com - Site contains more than 25,000 categories and subcategories and includes more than 400,000 business-oriented web sites along with 64,000 company profiles which include detailed information about public, private and international companies, including news, financials and biographies of executives.
Business Research Guides - Site by Rutgers University offers business research guides. This resource is divided into eighteen sections, including Business News Sources, Job Searching, Market Research, and Financing Your Business.
Business Starup Journal - From the Wall Street Journal Center for Entrepreneurs, this site offers a free, online publication focused on starting a business or franchise, including articles about the challenges and successes in business startups.
CareerBuilder - "Mega Job Search" service. The site has access to more than two million job postings across the Net. Plug in your preferences and the site spits back possible job matches.
Career Center - Government Executive Magazine's career center provides detailed information on Federal pay schedules. They have the General Schedule pay tables, Executive, Senior, and Scientific or Professional pay levels, hourly rates, military pay tables, law enforcement pay rates.
Career Development Manual - A detailed guide to assess one's personality, aptitudes, and values and how to match these to potential occupations.
Companies Online - directory to over 100,000 public & private companies. Searchable by name, location, industry, sales, number of employees, ticker symbol, or URL.
Dismal Scientist, The - "The Dismal Scientist is the pre-eminent source of free economic research and information accessible via the Internet.
This updated Data section provides immediate access to the Dismal Scientist's massive banks of national forecasts and state and metro level data."
The Forbes 500s - America's biggest companies fought their way through another nasty year. Forbes annual 500s directory is a report card on how these big corporations performed in 2002.
Forbes Global 500 - Forbes Global magazine presents its annual list of the world's biggest companies, measured by revenue. Of the 500 companies on the Global 500, a total of 205 are from the U.S. Japan has the second-greatest number of entries, 92. Aggregate revenue of the Global 500: $13 trillion.
HBS Working Knowledge - "a collection of cutting-edge management information created to help you stay at the forefront of todayâs fast-changing business environment."
Hoover's StockScreener Search - database enables visitors search for public companies by up to 20 fields, including Current P/E, Growth Rates, Company Size, and Profit Margin
JobBank USA - "Your gateway to Internet employment resources"
Job-Hunt.org - "The purpose of the Job-Hunt.Org Web site is to provide the most comprehensive listing of useful Internet-accessible job-search resources and services on the Web, in a format which is most useful to job seekers."
Marketing Virtual Library - Annotated guide to marketing resources. Areas covered include advertising, starting and running a business, careers and employment, consumer issues, legal information, electronic commerce, public relations, and selling & sales management. Additionally database, direct, international, and Internet marketing are covered as well as market research.
Riley Guide, The - the best guide to job-hunting sites on the Net
Salary Expert - Site provides salary, bonus, cost-of-living, and benefits data on over 31,000 jobs in over 45,000 U.S. and Canadian cities. International information also available.
