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Business Source Complete
This is IIT's largest business-subject database. It provides full-text coverage of more than 2,200 scholarly business, management and economics journals. More than 10,150 substantial company profiles from MarketLine are also included, as well as case studies, SWOT analyses, Market research reports.
Academic Search Complete
Contains more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, the majority being peer-reviewed journals. It also provides an index to additional journals, books, reports, and conference proceedings. It covers a wide range of topics and is a good place to start researching a topic.

PrivCo
PrivCo is a source for business and financial research on major privately-held companies (MPCs). It combines financial analysis, editorials, market research, and PrivCo's data technology for over 400,000 private companies in the United States.
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Mergent Intellect provides basic company facts on over 20 million North American companies and over 70 million global companies. Mergent Intellect provides essentially the same information as Hoovers Online using data from Hoovers and Dun and Bradstreet but with additional downloading capabilities not available through Hoovers Online.

Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Mergent Intellect provides basic company facts on over 20 million North American companies and over 70 million global companies. Mergent Intellect provides essentially the same information as Hoovers Online using data from Hoovers and Dun and Bradstreet but with additional downloading capabilities not available through Hoovers Online.

EDGAR Company Filings
EDGAR is the U.S. repository for public companies required to file forms with the SEC. The forms in this database will contain information about the companies progress and its future plans. Searchable by company name or ticker number.

Census Data (United States)
Data.census.gov is the new platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data and content, and more time using it.
Previously American FactFinder

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics official site; collects and analyzeslabor economic statistics.Data includes employment and unemployment, payroll, consumer price index, producer price index.

Ashoka
Provides grant information, education, and professional connections for social entrepreneurs around the world.
B Lab
B Lab is a nonprofit that certifies other for-profit companies against standards for social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.