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MGT 364 Design Thinking & Business Innovation - Paton

Lists useful databases and other resources to help you find the information you need for projects and assignments.

Opportunity Presentation & Design Project Resources

Use the following sources to find news and information in support of your course assignments.

Business Insights: Essentials
Use "Company Finder" or the main search box to find info about your organization. Select "Articles" from the drop-down menu to the right of the search box to search for articles about your topic.

Business Source Complete - Contains current and past articles from scholarly and popular publications in business, economics, and many other fields. See the subject terms on the left menu of results pages to view additional relevant articles. Also a good source of company information - use links on right-hand side of the homepage.

EBSCOhost - Contains journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; search by topic keyword, organization name, or by name of principals within an organization.

Privco - use this site to search for company & financial information for privately held companies and non-profit organizations

Statista
One of the world's largest statistics portals with data from over 18,000 sources. Provides access to 1 million statistics. Also contains information on industries, countries, digital markets, and other topics, as well as infographics.

Search the following publicly accessible websites to search for ideas and projects related to your class presentations and projects:

Ashoka Innovators for the Public (Fellows program)

BCorp

Broad Foundation (Fellows program) - Education

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (Fellows program)

Echoing Green Fellowship

Goldman Environmental Prize - Environment

IDEO.org

Innov8social Blog (list of Fellowship Programs for Social Innovators)

NewSchools Venture Fund - Education

REDF (Farber Fellows program)

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

The Skoll Foundation (Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship)

Social Enterprise Alliance

Social Venture Network

Stanford Social Innovation Fellowship