Library Guides: Management at Harrisburg: Finding Company Information

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Sources for Company Information

Databases

Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Find company SEC filings including 10Ks (annual reports) which provide information on business strategy, assessment, and often information about sustainability practices within the business model.
Provides data on over 100 million privately held companies.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Company profiles, SWOT analyses, and business publications.
An essential article database for business research providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, marketing, management, MIS, QMM and supply chain management.

Company Websites

Your company's website is a great place to start looking for information about sustainability, corporate responsibility, communications to stakeholders, and more. This applies to both public and private companies, though public companies will often provide more information and will have a special website for investor information, which usually includes information on sustainability/responsibility efforts as a means to inform current investors and court new ones.

Find links to this information usually in small font at the very top or the very bottom of the website.

Be aware that you may what to attempt to corroborate what you find with additional outside sources -- a company will paint itself in the best light possible and may gloss over potential issues.