QuickMBA - Knowledge to Power Your Business
URL: http://www.quickmba.com/
A comprehensive business site addressing major business topics to include: Strategy (SWOT Analysis, PEST Analysis), Marketing (Marketing Plan, Product Life Cycle), Finance (Investment Management, Security Analysis), Management (The Trusted Leader, Managing People), Economics (Industry Concentration, Business Cycle), Business Law (Business Legal Structure, Employment Law) and much more.

HBS Working Knowledge
URL: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/about_us.jhtml
"HBS Working Knowledge provides timely business information on thirteen diverse management topic areas (see the Topics menu at left) and features interviews with Harvard Business School (HBS) professors and industry leaders, the best of HBS publications, and coverage of HBS campus speakers and conferences. New features, book recommendations, and Web site reviews are added each week."

Doing Business - The World Bank Group
URL: http://www.doingbusiness.org/
"The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 155 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth."

Milken Institute Cost of Doing Business Index
URL: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/web-review.jhtml?id=5042&t=operations
"To help cost-conscious executives analyze interstate moves of their resources, the Milken Institute has released its 2005 version of the Cost of Doing Business Index, ranking the fifty states on a number of considerations. The states are graded on wages, tax burdens, electricity costs, and industrial and office rents."

Business Plan Archive
URL: http://www.businessplanarchive.org
"In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Archive collects and preserves business plans and related planning documents from the Birth of the Dot Com Era so that future generations will be able to learn from this remarkable episode in the history of technology and entrepreneurship." FREE Registration is required. Besides access to recent addition, users have access to video clips from 13 top technology CEOs about their experience surviving the dot-com crash.

General Business Resources
URL: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/busi/genbus.shtml
(Rutgers University Libraries)
Organized into three board areas: Electronic Texts and Digital Media, Other Websites, and Guide to Resources.  Comprehensive site covering economic and financial information, government and discussion groups.  The Guide to Resources section includes the link Business and Technology which provides a wealth of information.

BigCharts
URL:  http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
BigShot provides access to stock quotes, industry analysis, market news. Historical Quotes contain stock price information as far back as January 1985. BigReports section provides current information on BigMovers, BigPics, BigMarkets. MarketPluse news bulletin available on the home page, and relevant news items, are linked to individual stock quotes and profiles.

Bloomberg.com
URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/
Your financial stop covering markets, money, entrepreneur information, resources and more.

Business.com - The Search Engine for Business Information
URL: http://www.business.com
"Developed by a team of industry experts and library scientists, the Business.com directory contains more than 400,000 listings within 25,000 industry, product and service subcategories."  Provides news, profiles, and quote & financials of companies.

Business2.com
URL: http://www.business2.com/
Find company information to include links to company web page, Hoover's Company Capsule, company financials, earnings estimates, trends, consensus recommendations, SEC filings and much more.  The Technology section contains a comprehensive list of categories.  Access the latest headlines and additional information.

Industry Information Resources
URL: http://www.valuationresources.com/IndustryReport.htm
"Industry Information Resources provides links to industry resources for over 250 industries. Individual pages for each industry list resources available from trade associations, publications, and research firms which address subjects such as industry overview, issues, trends, and outlook, financial ratios and benchmarking, compensation surveys, and valuation resources."

Business Owners' IdeaCafe - Business/Finance
URL: http://ideacafe.tradepub.com/_brands/ideacafe/cat/Bus.cat.html
This site offers free publications for executives and managers.  Requirements to receive free subscriptions are determined by the publishers and not by Tradepub.  Please see Tradepub FAQ.

AllBusiness
URL: http://www.allbusiness.com
"A guide to everything about the technical aspects of building a business online.  Includes Forms & Agreements, Business Solutions and more.

Corporate Annual Reports - Lippincott Library of the Wharton School Corporate Annual Reports Collection
URL: http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/lippincott/
Access retrospective issues (1800s in some cases) of corporate annual reports from the Lippincott corporate annual reports collection. Reports are organized according to their products category.

International Business Guide
URL: http://web.idirect.com/~tiger/supersit.htm
This is a Worldclass Supersite with commentary for 1,025 top business sites from 95 countries.  The seven sections of coverage are: Reference, News, Learning, Money, Trade, Networking, and World Beaters.

IPAnet - MIGA's Investment Promotion Network
URL: http://www.ipanet.net/index.cfm
A very resourceful site that covers: country overview, FDI and business guides, free zones/ EPZs and SDIs, infrastructure and support services, living standards, macroeconomic framework, natural resources, operational cost factors, privatization statistical data, who's who, and development aid projects.

GATT Digital Library
URL: http://gatt.stanford.edu/page/home
"This site provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994. This online library is part of a cooperative effort between the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources and the World Trade Organization."

Venture Economics
URL: http://www.ventureeconomics.com/
Access snapshots of daily news and statistics of the US, European, and Asian private equity markets. Other services require subscription.

FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data
URL: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred/
A database of "historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business
indicators, exchange rates, balance of payments and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee".

FinanceAsia.com - The Network for Financial Decision Makers
URL: http://www.financeasia.com/
A comprehensive site covering a vast array of information.  The site is organized by these categories: News & Commentary, Research & Data, Executive Suite, Investor Forum, Highlights - Latest Stories, Top Stories.  The site can be searched By Country or By Industry.  Find information on hot deals, company profiles, corporate focus, investor focus, and much more to include IPO Report, IPO Tracker, and Hedge Funds.  

CEOExpress
URL: http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp
This site was put together by an executive.  It contains many useful links organized in categories such as, Business News, Business Magazines, Daily News, International News, Lifestyle Magazines, Newsfeeds, and Internet Search to name a few.  Some of the resources require subscription.

FinanceNet - Financial Management in Government
URL: http://www.financenet.gov/
"Internet's home for public financial management worldwide.  It was established by Vice President Gore's National Performance Review in Washington, D.C. in 1994".

Harvard Business School Publishing
URL: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/home.html
Contains information for managers, educators and trainers.  The Choose a Topic list include, Accounting & Finance, Economics, Government & the nonprofit, International Business, Management, Managing People, Strategy, Technology and more.  Discussion link allows you to share your thoughts with others.

The Nasdaq Stock Market
URL: http://www.nasdaq.com/
An electronic stock market providing news, information on market activity, infoquotes, IPOs and much more.

MONEY.COM: Your Financial Strategy Center
URL: http://www.money.com/money/
Provides information on investing, rates top 100 stocks, headlines from CNNfn.  Partners with STREETFUSION, IPO.COM, and FINDLAW.

Kompas - The Business to Business Search Engine
URL: http://www.kompass.com/kintl/cgi-bin/KI_PROaction.cgi
To access Kompas for free, click Home/Search in the Sign In box. Access to free information will not be as comprehensive as the subscription information. Kompas provides information to more than 1.6 million companies in over 70 countries, covering 23 million major products and services references, executive names and brand names are also provided. Geographic regions or individual countries can be search simultaneously (press Control key to select more than one) and can be combined with a criteria from the Guided Search section. Free edition will provide either brief contact information or more detailed information of a company to include number of employees, registered number,key figures (turnovers and banks).

FDI Xchange - An Investment Information Service
URL: http://www.fdixchange.com
"FDI Xchange delivers free, customized e-mail updates profiling new investment opportunities and business environment analysis from emerging markets worldwide."

International Telecommunication Union
URL:  http://www.itu.int/home/
Although the site seems to focus on telecommunications, it provides valuable information take should be considered for a business project in telecommunications, or telecommunications in other markets, geographic regions.  To access statistical information, select "Our Sites" at the top, then "Strategy and Policy Unit Activities", and then "Statistics and Analysis".  Links to Internet Case Studies, Presentations, Industry Sites and Links are provided when an item in "Statistics and Analysis" is selected.