MBA Research Guide

Mintel Reports provides market research reports that analyze the driving forces, market share, competitors, and customer profiles that shape a consumer market's size and characteristics. Unique information in these reports includes consumer attitudes and behaviors sections. We also have access to Mintel's Global New Products Database which covers product releases including information on marketing claims, ingredients, packaging, and more.

Euromonitor International's Passport database provides business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers in more than 200 countries. Market analysis country reports include information on market sizes, sales performance, company and brand shares and sales by category. The Economies section of the database includes reports on business dynamics; economy, finance and trade reports; and sustainability reports. Consumers reports are focused on households, income and expenditure, lifestyles or general population reports. Access to statistics, reports and commentary throughout.

BizMiner’s strength lies in providing regional and local reports, as well as national, including: industry financial analysis series, sole proprietorship financial reports, industry market trend series, competitive market narrative series, demographics reports, and sales per square foot reports. The availability of local reports varies and you may need to examine a broader industry if you’re looking for more granular geographic data. National reports generally allow you to subset industries by sales class.

The Mergent Intellect database offers access to private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and more. Users can build a company list filtered by company and executive criteria and company profiles include executive details and a complete corporate family tree as well as financials. Also included in the database are First Research reports that provide a brief overview of more than 500 industries.

Provides demographic information about the United States, from 1940 to 2000.

Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Subject areas of interest may include banking, finance and insurance; energy resources and industries; housing and construction; industry, business and commerce; international relations and trade; labor and employment and more.

This database provides a good starting point for broad background on a particular country. Country Reviews (available under the Intelligence Zone drop down meu on the homepage) include a political overview, economic overview, investment overview, social overview, and environmental overview. The database also includes political news, elections information and forecasts.

As well as information on consumers and industries, Passport GMID includes a section on 'Economies' which provides reports on 'Business Dynamics', 'Economy, Finance & Trade', and 'Sustainability' for covered nations. The Business Dynamics reports may be particularly interesting because they briefly cover the operations and regulatory environment, information on financing and investing, background on the skills and labor available in the country and an overview of transportation and infrastructure.

Country profiles in this database are brief, but include key information regarding location and climate, government and recent political history, economic affairs and regional and international co-operation. Covers more than 250 countries and territories.