Company, Industry, and Market Sources
- Mintel Academic This link opens in a new windowDoes your prospective employer serve a specific demographic, or do you want to more about the company's sector? Mintel provides a wealth of info. Be sure to look at their infographics for quick info in an easily digestible format!
- NetAdvantage/CapIQ This link opens in a new windowAnother source for finding information about prospective employers, NetAdvantage lets you find market, industry, and company information.
- Hoover's Company Profiles This link opens in a new windowFind up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives.
Think Tank Resources
- Think Tank Search via Harvard Kennedy SchoolDirectory of think tanks. No real search functionality.
- On Think TanksBlog and resource pages devoted to the topics of think tanks and policy research institutes.
- 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index ReportFrom the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at UPenn, this report provides rankings of think tanks across a wide variety of categories. Types of rankings include: worldwide, by geographic region, by area of research (exs: environment, health policy, security, etc.) and special achievement.
Past reports can be found here. - World Directory of Think Tanks via NIRASearch for think tanks by topic, country, or keyword. Also a good resource for brief descriptions/coverage focuses for think tanks.
- Global Think Tank WatchSmall database of policy research published by a variety of institutes.