School of Public and Environmental Affairs moves up to No. 2

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — U.S. News and World Report magazine has chosen three programs at Indiana University — including its School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) — as top 10 among their peers. Three others, including its School of Education and Kelley School of Business, are among the magazine’s top 20.

 SPEA and the Kelley School of Business each showed progress in the rankings, which will appear in the new edition of U.S. News’ annual survey of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” SPEA moved up from third to second position, while the Kelley School returned to the top 20 from being 24th a year ago and 27th in 2006.  …

…for more… http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/7858.html 

U.S. News & World Report rankings:

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/pad/search

How much did I pay for this stock in 1982?

That is a question that often comes up around tax time. There are free web sites that have daily stock price data going back about 30 years.  Try either Yahoo Finance or Google Finance.  We also subscribe to a database, Mergent Online, that provides the daily stock price  going back about 30 years (pull up a company and click on the “Equity Pricing” tab).  For stock prices older than 30 years, or for companies that have since been acquired by another company,  we have a print resource for the NYSE going back to 1962, a print resource for the American Stock Exchange going back to 1962 and a print resource for the OTC market, now NASDAQ, going back to 1968.   Those print volumes are located here in the reference collection. 

$2 million gift by Fred Steingraber to advance Kelley School of Business global presence

March 18, 2008

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — As the chairman and chief executive officer of A.T. Kearney, Fred G. Steingraber led an ambitious global expansion into nearly 40 countries, growing the firm at a compounded rate of growth of 25 percent per year for 18 straight years.

When Steingraber retired, A.T. Kearney was the second largest, high value-added strategic and operational consulting firm in the world with the highest growth rate and highest revenue per consultant. ….

For the entire release… http://info.kelley.iu.edu/news/page/normal/7492.html 

100 Best Companies to Work For

See Fortune’s 2008 best company rankings here:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2008/full_list/index.html 

Best Undergrad B-Schools

From Business Week: 
 
The Best Undergrad B-Schools

More kids—and better qualified ones—are studying business in college. And they’re nailing fatter salaries when they get out. Meanwhile, academic programs are getting more specialized
There is at least one place in the business world where most of the news is good: undergraduate business education. The number of high school seniors who say they intend to earn a business degree is increasing. Those who entered a business program in 2007 boasted higher standardized test scores than last year’s freshmen. And graduates are leaving with bigger salaries.
 For more: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_10/b4074049186360.htm?chan=bschools_bschool+index+page_top+stories

The Rankings:

http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_bschool/

How do I find a SWOT analysis for a company?

Go to the Marketline database found on the Business/SPEA Information Commons website under Market Research here:

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

 Type in the name of the corporation and then select it for viewing from the list.  On the left hand side of the screen, click on the entry for SWOT Analysis.