Answered By: Becky Smith, STEM Entrepreneurship & Business
Last Updated: Jun 29, 2020     Views: 1024

  • Marquis Who's Who on the Web contains biographical sketches of many business personnel.
     
  • Corporate Affiliations has quick and advanced bio search functions; which can be found by pointing the mouse at "subscriber tools" on the navigation bar. Select Bio Quick Search or Bio Advanced Search. 
    Lexis Nexis Corporate affiliations bio search
     
  • The Reference Book of Corporate Management (Q. 658.151 D9221 2011) in the Reference Room; contains brief sketches of hundreds of public and private companies; along with short biographies of a few principals at each. The book contains an index of every person named in it; as well as a college and university cross reference index that allows the reader to look up an institution and learn which of the individuals named in the book attended that school.
     
  • Information about business personnel can be found in Bloomberg (Bloomberg can be accessed at the Margolis Market Information Lab in the Business Instructional Facility) by entering a company's ticker symbol; then pressing the yellow "EQUITY" key; then typing "MGMT;" followed by the "GO" key; or by typing the person's name and choosing the correct "BIO" function that appears in the menu; or; lastly; by hitting the yellow "PEOPLE" key to get a longer menu of functions. Bloomberg is available at the Margolis Market Information Lab (MIL) in the Business Instructional Facility (BIF).
     
  • Capital IQ also offers users the capability of searching for biographical information about business personnel. Capital IQ is available at the Margolis Market Information Lab (MIL) in the Business Instructional Facility (BIF).

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