Tag Archives: Scholarly research
Free Market Intelligence for Franchise-Heavy Industries
The other day, a client came to me with an interesting request: How many independent pizza restaurants operate in the US. After consulting the usual library resources and pizza industry associations, I was still unable to fully answer this question
The Sweet Sound of… Data
I was getting my hipster on, listening to a song called Love Show by Skye, and for whatever deep reason, it prompted me to think about researching the music industry. Without further adieu, I’ve put together a list of five
Business Source Complete
It’s 2012, we’re back, and we mean business! Well actually, we mean business no matter the year, so what better way to start 2012 than with one of the most fundamental business research tools: The Business Source Complete Database, or
All The Money In The World…
…has been visually distributed in one awesomely massive chart, courtesy of Randall Munroe’s profoundly entertaining & enlightening web comic XKCD. (That’s your cue to bookmark it.) He says on the poster, “Nearly every amount has a cited source- when possible,
Business Videos- Part Two
If you took the time to look through YouTube’s business education channel from the Part One companion post, then you might already expect that this second segment on educational business videos is a profile of the KhanAcademy. The KhanAcademy videos
Bookmark Futurity…
…but be forewarned that it’s highly addictive. In a nutshell Futurity.org’s akin to the colorful see & be scene watering hole, the one with an amazing happy-hour special where all the hip people go to flaunt themselves. Only the colorful
A Study on Spending
Once again academia has pretty much confirmed one of life’s truisms. In the 2006 Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, authors Epley, Mak, and Idson, in an article titled “Bonus of Rebate?: The Impact of Income Framing on Spending and Saving,”
Sunlight & Spending
It’s time for businesses to consider ditching those fluorescent bulbs in favor of sun lamps, because a scholarly study conducted by researchers at the University of Alberta and the University of Winnipeg in Canada, published in the November 2010 Journal
