How do I locate housing statistics for Monroe County Indiana?

To find occupancy and vacancy rates; the number of housing units; the percentages of owner occupied and renter occupied housing; and the percentages, by type, of house heating fuel used in Monroe County, click on the U.S. Census online site here:

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?-geo_id=05000US18105&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_DP4&-ds_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_

To search for other counties throughout the U.S. or other nations, follow the links on the page here:

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_lang=en&_ts=265110495864&_ds_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_&_program=

Importing Data from Bloomberg to Excel on the Business/SPEA Information Commons Terminal

Log-in to Bloomberg and then open Excel. You should see Bloomberg as an option on the top menu bar. If it is not there, close Excel and click on the desktop icon: “Install Excel Add-in”. After installation (it will only take a moment), start Excel again and you should now see Bloomberg as an option on the top menu bar. Use the provided Wizards and functions to import data.

For help using the Excel Add-in, click on the Start menu, All Programs, hover over Bloomberg, and a list of options will appear including a link to a help document.

Students explain the essentials of Millennial marketing in Target Case Competition

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June 8, 2009

Bloomington, Ind. — These days, everyone seems to be talking about members of the Millennial generation: their penchant for technology and social networking, their close connection to their parents and their desire to make a difference in the world. When Target wanted ideas for reaching the Millennial market, it came to the Kelley School of Business to ask the Millennials themselves.

Each year Target hosts a case competition for undergraduate students at the Kelley School, as well as several other business schools. This year’s competition focused on attracting and keeping Millennial guests and balancing the desires of Millennial customers and Baby Boomer customers.

Nearly all Kelley sophomores participate in the case competition through the X204 course, Business Communication. This means that 200 teams of four to six students work together to develop a report and presentation for their solution to the case competition. From the original 200 teams, 12 are selected for a semi-final competition, after which four finalists are identified to present to a team of judges from Target. Each member of the four teams will receive a cash prize: $750 for a first-place finish, $500 for second place, $250 for third place and $100 for fourth place. …

…. http://info.kelley.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11102.html

Industry must move quickly, through self-regulation, to protect consumer privacy in technology era

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May 26, 2009

INDIANAPOLIS — Self-imposed industry standards regarding the digital collection and use of consumer information are the preferred solution to protect consumer privacy and empower business innovation, according to faculty at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

If industry fails to set guidelines that recognize consumer needs and expectations regarding privacy issues, it risks the government doing so in a more aggressive and potentially stifling manner.

A recent article in the American Business Law Journal explores challenges to consumer privacy amid the growing use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for real-time inventory control and other purposes. The authors outline several key recommendations they believe should guide development of industry-driven privacy standards for RFID and other emerging technologies, beginning with a better understanding that consumers expect to own, share and control personal information even after they have disclosed it. …

For the entire news release… http://info.kelley.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10943.html

Locating Company Annual Reports from Past Decades On-Line

To find on-line annual reports for the 1970’s and 1980’s, choose the  LexisNexis Academic database on our webpage here:

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1336

Select the “Business” tab at the top of the page,  then “Company Profiles” on the left hand side of screen.  In the “Sources” drop box, in the middle of the screen, check off  “Annual Reports – Corporate; 1972 – 1984″  or “Annual Reports – Corporate, 1984 – 1995″  for a particular stock issuing company.  

How do I find the foreign subsidaries of American parent companies?

Go to the CorporateAffiliations.com database found on our website here:

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1336

and type in the name of the parent company that you’re looking for in the search box. 

In the case of a firm like NIKE, for example, search results include a list of all its subsidaries in Asia, Europe, and Canada.  Company subsidary listings include the addresses, telephone numbers, primary SIC/NAIC codes, brief business descriptions, number of employees, and top executives.

Bill Cook, innovator in state’s life sciences industry, to speak at IU conference in Indianapolis

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May 4, 2009

EDITORS: The media is invited to attend this event. A complete program schedule and parking information is available at http://www.kelley.iu.edu/cbls/conferences/conf4.html.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bill Cook, founder of Cook Group Inc. and an early innovator in Indiana’s life sciences industry, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth and final event in the 2008-09 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series.

Cook will be joined by other key collaborators in academia and business, including Dr. Richard DiMarchi, the Linda and Jack Gill Chair in Biomedical Sciences at Indiana University and co-founder of Ambrx and Marcadia Biotech.

The seminar, “Strategic Collaborations,” will take place from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, at University Place and Conference Center, 850 W. Michigan St., on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. …

…. http://info.kelley.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10725.html

How to Quickly Find Commodity Prices for the Last 30 Years

For monthly averages of commodity prices since 1980, go to our Wiki page for Commodities here:

http://iubusref.pbwiki.com/Commodities

Click on the IMF Primary Commodity Prices link and select the “monthly data (CSV file)” , in the box, at the bottom of the page for 49 commodities including aluminum, coal, coffee, cotton, crude oil, rubber, sugar, soybeans, etc. to view or download the IMF’s price series data.

EPA to regulate greenhouse gases: Indiana University experts comment

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April 17, 2009

EDITORS: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today (April 17) that it intends to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Faculty experts at Indiana University express different reactions but agree that the decision could and should put pressure on Congress to take action on greenhouse gases.

A legally well-founded and appropriate move

Professor A. James Barnes, former deputy administrator and general counsel to the EPA, says the decision is a good one. “I think it is a welcome, legally well-founded and appropriate move as a matter of policy on EPA’s part,” he said. “While Congress did not focus on greenhouse gas pollutants when it crafted the Clean Air Act in 1970, it is clear, nonetheless, that the greenhouse gases meet the definition of air pollutant in the Act.” Barnes, a professor and former dean of the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and an adjunct professor in the IU Maurer School of Law, noted that the Clinton Administration concluded that the EPA had the authority to address greenhouse pollutants, but the Bush Administration reversed that position and declined to take action to regulate them. Two years ago, the Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. EPA, told the EPA it did have that authority and that it should reconsider regulating greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. Barnes said that while it still would be several years before any such controls could be put in place on automobiles, the EPA decision could bolster efforts to prompt Congress to approve cap-and-trade legislation to limit carbon dioxide emissions from stationary sources, such as coal-burning power plants. Industry has expressed understandable opposition to piecemeal regulation, he said. “The fact that EPA is now on a track to go forward with some regulation under the current law, I think, really ups the ante for Congress to address the issue in a comprehensive fashion.”  ….

For the entire SPEA news release … http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10636.html

How Do I Find Sovereign Ratings?

Use the Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect database, available on our website, to find the international credit rating for a particular country. 

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1336

At the top of the Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect database page, click on the “find” tab.  Click on ”browse”  and  then “Global Issuers”  where under the  ”Industry” category select “sovereigns”.   Under “sovereigns”,  one can find the ratings for countries in Asia and Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin American, the Pacific, Supranational entities; as well as ratings for Canada and the United States.