Business Information Alert articles from May 2002

Business Information Alert archives from May 2002

A call to mentoring.
May 1, 2002... Quick. Who was your first mentor? A parent or a grandparent? And your second? A teacher, perhaps? How many mentors did you have before finding your first professional or work mentor? If you count all of your life mentors, what are you up to--a...

From the editor.(mentors and crisis management)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
May 1, 2002... Perhaps due to the intense interest in knowledge management currently dominating the business conversation circuit, mentoring has become another topic of renewed interest. After all, how better to leverage your company's intellectual capital...

Emerging industries. (News & Trends).(databases)
May 1, 2002... Rise and shine! Many so-called emerging industries are sleeping beauties. Latent for decades, they become belles of the ball when circumstance and improved technology converge. Take biometrics, for example. Government Computer News predicts...

Quick lookups. (News & Trends).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Barron's summarizes Investext analyst reports weekly, including the buy/sell recommendation. The online version of Barron's is available to subscribers for an added $29 annual fee. The summaries, extending back to 1987, are also on Dow Jones...

The last word. (News & Trends).(Mayor Michael Bloomberg appoints Merrill Lynch President E. Stanley O'Neal to redevelopment board)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... New York's attorney general has accused Merrill Lynch (ML) of flagrant conflicts of interest. But that didn't deter Mayor Michael Bloomberg from appointing ML president E. Stanley O'Neal to the board overseeing redevelopment in downtown...

Marketing Masculinities: Gender and Management Politics in Marketing Work (Contributions in Labor Studies, Number 57). (Management).
May 1, 2002... Lee V Chalmers. 2001. Greenwood Press. Hardcover. 194p. ISBN. 0-313-31603-1. $62.50. In this ambitious work, author Lee Chalmers explores the role that gender plays in organizing the workplace, influencing management, and shaping workplace...

Online Public Relations: A Handbook for Practitioners. (Marketing).
May 1, 2002... James L. Horton. 2001. Quorum Books. Hardcover. 296p. ISBN: 1-56720-406-6.$65. Way back in the '80s when I managed an information services department for a large, generalist advertising and public relations firm, we had our hands full...

The World Database of Business Information Sources on the Internet. (Reference, International).(Eurornonitor International, World Database of Business Information Sources on the Internet)
May 1, 2002... Eurornonitor International. Annual subscription, 33,990. Euromonitor is a respected and well-known publisher to researchers looking for business and economic statistics. Their initial products were print directories of companies and...

Price's posts.("The Price List" -- 10 web sites, tools, or ideas you should know about)(Directory)
May 1, 2002... Since I'm known to many people in our profession as the "List of Lists" guy, I thought it was about time that I created one of my own. So, this month, we introduce "The Price List" -- 10 web sites, tools, or ideas you should know about. There...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2002... In the March issue, the phone number for information about the CCH Journalist's Guide to Writing About Securities should have been 847267-7153. The area code was given incorrectly. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.