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Market Research Resources @ UCSD
Economics Resources Guide
Finding Data Guide
This guide has links to the broadest range of data resources you have access to.
Career Choice & Change
Learning Excel Guide
Although this guide originally was for undergraduates, it contains links to materials of interest to a range of readers who range from beginner through advanced level with Excel.
Project Management Resources Guide
Searching Patents
Business Ethics & CSR

This guide will walk you through the most useful UCSD resources for market research. The guide is arranged by tasks, which are the tabs above.

Business Insights: Global
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This database contains market research reports, industry profiles, company chronologies and industry news. It is a great first place to start when looking for background on an industry, company background and much more.
Business Source Complete
BSC is a good alternative starting point for industry overviews, business news and academic articles related to management, marketing, strategy, finance and many other topics. It contains fulltext of key journals like Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, etc.
IBISWorld Industry Intelligence
IBISWorld contains U.S. and global industry market research reports, including a specialized collection of China Industry Reports. It also provides U.S. business risk ratings, and selected economic and demographic data. Contents are downloadable as full reports or selected elements, such as SWOT analyses, statistical tables and graphs.

These are materials from class presentations by Adele on market research using UCSD's tools.

2021 MBA Orientation Slides
Converge Handout, June 2021
background sheet for the summer Converge participants.
GPIM 472 Class Handout, Fall 2020
Market Research Workshheet
This handout that prompts you to consider many types of intelligence sources. 10/13/20 update: this is the page Adele mentioned in the GPIM 472 presentation
121B Innovation/York Resource Sheet (Spring 2019)
This document is the in-class handout that helps you select secondary resources to help with your market research assignment.
Decision Tree Handout
This document provides a visualization for the types of the market research resources you have available to you.

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Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian

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University of California, San Diego

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La Jolla, CA 92093-0175

Subjects: Business

Thanks to Ruby Loredo, MLIS student intern and Geisel Library staff member, who contributed extensively to this page.