LibGuides: SEE 1001 Sports, Entertainment, and Event Management: Company Research

Library Databases

Business Insights: Global
Comprehensive business content including case studies, company profiles & industry research reports, country economic reports, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and video interviews with business executives. (formerly, Business & Company Resource Center)
Business Source Complete
Valuable company profiles from Datamonitor with SWOT analyses (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) where available, industry profiles, stocks & investment info., management-related articles, Harvard Business Review case studies and streaming videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Many full-text articles covering Baking & Culinary Arts, Business Travel, Event Management, Food & Beverage, Gaming & Casinos, Hospitality Law, Hotel Management, Leisure Studies, Market Trends, Meetings, Menu Planning, Restaurants, and more.
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
Selective full-text articles from over 500 journals covering various aspects of the hospitality industry such as cruise lines, hotels & motels, resorts, restaurants & menu planning, travel & tourism, and leisure activities.
Newspapers: US Major Dailies
Search or browse articles in several major US newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Useful for understanding current events, finding company and biographical information, and obtaining general information on a topic
Richard K. Miller Marketing Research Handbooks
E-books in such fields as Consumer Behavior & Marketing, Energy, Carbon Reduction and “green jobs”, Entertainment/Media & Advertising, Healthcare, Hotels & Resorts, Leisure, Restaurant & Foodservice, Retailing, Sports Marketing, Travel & Tourism.

Tips for Finding Organizational Charts

Google search strategies

Sometimes this information finds its way into other types of company or investor documents. Try Google searches on your company's name with different keyword phrases and filetypes (PDF and PPT are the best bets).

For example:

[company name] organizational chart filetype:pdf
[company name] organizational chart filetype:ppt
[company name] organizational structure filetype:pdf
[company name] organizational structure filetype:ppt
[company name] leadership structure filetype:pdf
[company name] leadership structure filetype:ppt
and so on ...

Allow time for this! You will likely have to scroll through far more than one page of results, and need to skim through the actual documents retrieved. Use your browser's Find In Page search ...

Limiting your search to PowerPoint files can sometimes yield org chart information. To do this, type [company name] organizational chart filetype:ppt into the search box.

Public and Private Companies

Edgar.gov
Free access to more than 21 million public company filings. Select "Search for company filings" then select "Company or fund name, ticker symbol, etc." EDGAR will only provide public company information.

Annual reports are published by public companies discussing their products and financial position for the previous year. Annual reports typically include the following:

A letter from the "Chairman of the Board" to the shareholders
Financial statements including sales, stock, and marketing data
Information about products and subsidiaries
A list of directors and officers of the company

For private companies that are subsidiaries of public companies, annual reports are often the only way to locate information about their operations.

Go to Google and type (using quotations) "Name of company" and "annual report.”

Annual Reports
61,384 annual reports from 5,273 companies worldwide
The Public Register Online
Create a free user profile to view over 5,000 online annual reports or 10-K presentations.

Organizational Charts

Official Board
Possible place to find organizational charts.