> Return to the #77 Newsletter Need to identify family-owned companies? Use Orbis or Sabi databases. Both contain detailed information regarding company shareholders. To create a list of family businesses go to either Orbis or Sabi. The main difference between the two databases is that ORBIS covers very large international companies while SABI focuses on companies located in Spain. Click on “Ownership data” on the Home page and select the following criteria: “Companies owned by a…
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Awarded Business Books
> Return to the #76 Newsletter Looking for the best business books? Find all the books that have been awarded by The Financial Times and McKinsey, The Economist and Strategy+Business in the IESE Library Catalog. Go to the Catalog and click on “Book List”. This brings up several static book lists by award and year. If you want to retrieve awarded books by a particular criterion, go to the “Advanced search” page,…
Screening PE & VC Investors by Investment Criteria
> Return to the #75 Newsletter Interested in screening for private equity or venture capital firms investing in a particular industry, stage of investment, and/or geography? Go to Thomson One. But bear in mind, this resource only works on Internet Explorer (see How-To: Thomson One: access). Click on Screening & Analysis. Drag mouse over Private Equity then click on Companies & Investors. At the top of the page select an Entity Type of…
Channel Benchmarks
> Return to the #74 Newsletter eMarketer allows you to compare performance against reliable industry benchmarks all in one dashboard. Go to eMarketer and jump to “Benchmarks” by clicking on the “Benchmark” link and choose a channel to get started. Benchmarks includes 176 data sets with over 1,766 individual measures of performance data across seven channels: Display, Email, Mobile, Retail & Ecommerce, Search, Social Media and Video. Check all the metrics included at…
Trending Topics Infographics
> Return to the #73 Newsletter Interested in infographics about trending topics? Find the facts and figures you need in a clear and illustrative form in Statista. Statista is a statistics portal that integrates data and facts on thousands of diverse topics from a wide range of sources onto one single platform. Go to Statista, click on the “Infographics” tab and browse popular infographic topics. You can also use the “search box”…