MMPA Career Research Workshop

A library database for use on- or off-campus. Please log-out when finished as only 20 simultaneous users are allowed for this database. Click on 'Search' on the top navigation bar. Click the button besides 'Company' to search and select a specific company or companies (you may have to select subsidiaries as well as parent companies). Selected companies will appear in yelllow; click on the arrow to see the option to remove a company from your search. Click the button besides 'Subject' to select 'Content Types' > 'Page-One Stories' to find in-depth articles that have appeared on the front-page of newspapers and other sources. Other useful Content Types include 'Interviews with Corporate Executives 'or the options listed under 'Corporate/Industrial News'. Adjust the search timeframe from the default 3-month period if desired. Select relevant articles from the results list to save or email multiple documents.

A database available on the ProQuest platform. If not already selected, select the 'Change Databases' link on the top of the page, explode the 'ABI/INFORM Collection' menu to select the 'ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry' database. Use the pull-down menu besides the first search box to select 'Company/Organization - ORG' field to search. Click on the 'Lookup Companies/organizations' to search for and select relevant company name variants and click on the 'Add to search' button. These will now appear in the search box; click on the 'Search' button to search on these. Use additional filters such as 'Document Type' and/or 'Source Type' to further refine your research. The data range default of 'All dates' can also be adjusted. Results can be displayed in date order as well as by relevance.

A library database for use on- and off-campus. Includes trade and industry press articles as well as Harvard Business Review. Enter target company's name in the first search box and use the pull-down 'Select a Field' menu to select 'CO - Company Entity' to find articles about a company. Use addition filters such as Publication Type, Document Type, Product Name, and Publication Date to refine your search. Alternatively, use keywords in the additional search boxes and use the pull-down menu to search for these in either the 'AB Abstract' or the 'TX Text' fields. Click on (a) match(es) to view the abstract and link to the PDF.