Chief Executive Magazine   
Source of intelligence for and about CEOs. Focuses on the unique leadership concerns of CEOs, providing the ideas, strategies, and tactics that CEOs can use to create more effective organizations. Chief Executive also covers the human side of being a CEO.

Creating a Code of Ethics for Your Organization   
Launched by Chris MacDonald, an assistant professor of philosophy at St. Mary's University (Halifax, Canada), this site presents a guide to writing an organizational code of ethics. MacDonald explains the value of a code of ethics, offers tips for drafting a code, and supports his advice with links to articles, books, and an online survey.

Drucker Archives   
Access select full-text articles by the "father of management," and search the entirety of Drucker's life work. Most entries do not include links to full text. Site is designed to assist researchers, and provides a number of online features that draw on the enormous output of Drucker's writings over the past six decades.

Entrepreneur Magazine   
Written for entrepreneurs with practical information and concise, hands-on advice. Covers the latest developments in technology, money, management and marketing.

Entrepreneurship.org   
Information on starting and growing your business from The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Features current articles on relevant topics related to entrepreneurship and small business success.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation   
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works to ensure that entrepreneurs have the information and tools they need to succeed. Use the Foundation site to access relevant news, reports, white papers, grant information, and more.

Fortune Small Business   
Daily stories on starting, running and growing a business. Access full text of articles from the FSB magazine from one month ago back to 2003.

Inc. Magazine   
Inc. magazine archives date back to 1988 and are fully searchable. Site also features products, services, and online tools for virtually every business or management task.
Members (free) can download free tools, create a BizCard for the B2B Directory, and use a Portfolio to save items of interest.

Leader to Leader   
Quarterly journal, affiliated with the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly known as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management), focuses on management and leadership topics. Online access provides full text of selected articles from current and past journals.

McKinsey Quarterly   
A management journal international in scope, covering a variety of industries.
Free registration required.

PeerSpectives   
Use the Edward Lowe Foundation's Entrepreneur's Resource Center to learn more about entrepreneurship, access resources for all stages of growth, and view articles on topics such as defining and serving a market, human resource management, legal issues and taxes, and more.

Seminar Information   
This site helps you find and enroll in over 360,000 live, in-person seminars, classes, workshops, corporate training events and conferences listed annually. You can search by category, by keyword or use the advanced search program to find seminars and events by sponsor, date or location. If your organization is sponsoring an event, you can easily add a notice to the site as well.

CCH Business Owner's Toolkit   
Ready-to-use business tools for asset protection, business finance, compensation and benefits, employee management, and more. Tools include sample business documents, financial spreadsheet templates, checklists, and more.

Entrepreneur.com FormNet   
FormNet is a tool designed to save you the time and expense of creating business documents from scratch. You can download and customize forms according to your needs. Each is created in Microsoft Word Document format (.doc) for versions 6.0 and above.

FindLaw Corporate Contracts   
Real examples of deals, contracts, and agreements within and among companies, primarily in the Technical sector. Search for agreements by keyword, or browse the directory categories for specific types of agreements. Great tool for the small business person or manager who wants to see examples of how specialized contracts are written.

IRS Small Business & Self Employed Community   
Forms & guides, advice for small business taxation issues. Includes links to other government agency pages of interest to small business owners and self-employed individuals.

IRS Tax Forms   
Forms, instructions, publications, and notices. Both current and previous years (back to 1992) available.

Legal Forms Archive   
The Internet Legal Research Group claims to have the Internet's largest collection of free legal forms -- 2,000+ and growing. A number of the forms are adapted for state-specific use. ILRG is so confident in the legality of their forms that they will pay $50 to any person who can demonstrate that one of their forms is not compliant with state laws.

Microsoft Office Templates   
Downloads thousands of ready-to-use templates for your Microsoft products. You'll find PowerPoint backgrounds for sales presentations, Excel spreadsheets for HR and finance, flow charts, organizational charts, and more. Just download any template to your computer and easily customize for your needs.

Onecle   
Onecle collects public domain business and legal contracts from actual U.S. business entities. Access samples of no-compete contracts, consulting agreements, severance contracts, and much more.

Accounting: An Introduction   
This site offers easy-to-understand lessons on the basics of financial accounting. Read through each instructional session, solve sample problems, and compare your answers to the correct responses.

BizStats.com   
Get corporate, S-Corp, or sole proprietor company financial ratios, balance sheet data, and income/expense statements from just about any industry. You can even customize a profit and loss statement per industry based on annual revenue. Use the top navigation to find other financial data including income/expense ratios, productivity, and other useful industry information.

Business Calculators   
This site, from the National Center for Business Journalism, contains numerous business calculators. Use these tools to figure financial ratios, convert currency, calculate inflation rates, compute salary data, and much, much more.

Business Expenses Survey   
Periodic national estimates on operating expenses for merchant wholesale, retail trade, and selected service industries.

Business Finance Magazine   
Trade magazine for finance executives. Subject areas include Budgeting & Reporting; Cost Management; Performance Management; Risk Management; E-Business; Technology & Software; more. Also includes full article archives; Webcasts; Salary Central; an events & vendor directory; Web links; Research Reports; e-Newsletters. Visitors can participate in a regularly updated slate of research projects.

Dinkytown Business Calculators   
This collection of business calculators will help you get the financial information you need to make better decisions. These interactive calculations, dynamic graphs and fully customizable reports are just a few of the features that make these calculators easy to use and provide information that is actionable. Calculators include investment return; equipment buy vs. lease; debt consolidation; breakeven analysis; business valuation; cash flow calculator; commercial loan calculator; inventory analysis; profit margin calculator; and financial ratios.

IRS Business Structure   
When beginning a business, you must decide what form of business entity to establish. Your form of business determines which income tax return form you have to file. This site covers the tax implications and forms needed for the most common forms of business structures.

IRS Industries & Professions Page   
Tax tips, financial resources, trends and statistics, forms, and more for various industries and professions, including: Agriculture, Automotive, Child Care, Construction, Cosmetology, Entertainment, Fishing, Gaming, Gas Retailers, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Restaurant, Tax Professionals, and more.

IRS Small Business & Self Employed Community   
Forms & guides, advice for small business taxation issues. Includes links to other government agency pages of interest to small business owners and self-employed individuals.

IRS Small Business Tax Workshop   
The IRS provides video presentations free of charge on various small business tax issues, from new business guidance to hiring employees to setting up retirement plans. The taxman cometh, make sure your business is prepared.

MoreBusiness.com   
Articles, business tips, insight, a free Intranet and other material to help small businesses grow. Financial comparisons, ratios, and industry averages.

SCORE Business Templates   
Download planning and financial templates. Save the files to your computer and modify for your business needs. Includes planning and financial templates.

TurboTax Small Business Tax Tips and Calculators   
Various calculators available to help you and your business with your taxes. Of particular interest is the TurboTax Deduction Finder, which can help you figure out what you can deduct on your tax return. Based on your answers, it can also tell you whether your deduction is subject to any limitations under tax law, what paperwork you need to support that deduction, and what tax form to use for your deduction.

BizStats.com   
Get corporate, S-Corp, or sole proprietor company financial ratios, balance sheet data, and income/expense statements from just about any industry. You can even customize a profit and loss statement per industry based on annual revenue. Use the top navigation to find other financial data including income/expense ratios, productivity, and other useful industry information.

Business Expenses Survey   
Periodic national estimates on operating expenses for merchant wholesale, retail trade, and selected service industries.

CAPS Benchmarking reports   
Industry-specific reports as well as cross-Industry data to help purchasing professionals compare their performance against that of their peers in the same industry.
Free registration required for full access.

Corporation Tax Stats – Data by Industry   
These reports from the IRS provide various financial statistics on corporations by broad industry heading. Use these stats to compare your balance sheet and income statements to industry averages.

GAO Best Practices Reviews   
Contains best practices reviews of public and private sector organizations, to provide other organizations with a model for improving performance in specific areas. Also contains reports comparing the practices of a government agency with best practices of leading organizations. Finally, provides methodologies to assess similar operations.

401(k) Benchmarking Survey   
Use the data from this Deloitte Consulting survey for statistical purposes or to compare your organization to others. In addition to the full report, this site offers breakdowns of 401(k) information by company asset size, number of employees, and industry (all links to PDF docs). Data comes from a survey of 830 participating 401(k) sponsors, covering the full spectrum of industries, geographic regions, and company sizes.

BLS Compensation Cost Trends   
National Compensation Survey - Compensation Cost Trends produces quarterly indexes measuring change over time in labor costs (ECI) and annual data measuring level of average costs per hour worked (ECEC).

BLS Compensation Wage Calculator   
This application allows you to create customized tables by choosing the data you want from BLS databases on a simple, one-screen form. Select a geographic area, occupation and work level to view hourly wages for workers fitting the selected criteria. Data covers from 1997 to 2007. NOTE: Requires a Java-enabled browser.

BLS Employee Benefits   
National Compensation Survey - Benefits produces comprehensive data on the percentage of workers with access to and participation in employer provided benefit plans, and provisions of selected employee benefit plans.

BLS National Compensation Survey   
Provides comprehensive statistics on occupational earnings, compensation cost trends, benefits, and detailed plan provisions. Occupational wages are available for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, geographic regions, and the nation. This page also links to data on collective bargaining agreements; Department of Labor statutes; the Employment Standards Administration (which administers a variety of programs such as minimum wage and hour standards and equal employment opportunity); and the Employee Benefit Research Institute, which offers a detailed description of private- and public-sector employee benefit programs as they exist today.

BLS Occupational Employment Statistics   
This program produces employment and wage estimates for over 700 occupations. This covers numbers of people employed in an occupation, and wage estimates. Breakdowns are available for the U.S., states, and metro areas. Occupational estimates for specific industries are available at the national level.
You can download Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates; view the Standard Occupational Classification; and review the list of SOC Occupations used in the OES survey.
Site also links to New and Emerging Occupations, Employment Projections, and the Current Population Survey.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data   
Access "most requested" statistics, complete data files, or use java tables to create your own customized statistical reports. Specific data sets include: Labor Force; Employment; Earnings; Unemployment Statistics; Unemployment Rates; Mass Layoff Statistics; Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey; Consumer Price Index; Producer Price Index; Import/Export Price Indexes; Consumer Expenditure Survey; National Compensation Survey; Employee Benefits Survey; Employment Cost Index; Employer Cost for Employee Compensation; Work Stoppage Data; Occupational injuries and illnesses; Industry Productivity and Costs; Foreign Labor Statistics; Regional data.

Department of Labor Business Compliance Assistance   
Hiring and managing employees is a highly regulated business activity. Make sure you have the most up-to-date information on labor compliance with this site from the Department of Labor. Covering everything from minimum wage and vacation leave to equal employment opportunity and retirement plans, this resource will ensure that your company is above-board when it comes to HR compliance.

Employee Benefit Research Institute   
This nonprofit organization is committed to data dissemination, policy research, and education on economic security and employee benefits. While much of their in-depth data and analyses must be purchased, some information (for instance, the Facts from EBRI and the EBRI Data Book) is available for free online. The excellent set of links under the Reference Shelf heading are of great use as well.

Employer's Guide to Employee Benefits   
Fairly extensive document from the Minnesota Small Business Assistance Office and Briggs and Morgan, P.A. provides information on qualified retirement plans, ERISA, health and welfare benefit plans, HMOs, plan administration, and more.

Executive Compensation   
Find out how much executives are making, including wages, other compensation, FYE options, and option exercises. Search by company name, state, sector, or industry.

Executive PayWatch   
Although with a political bias, this site contains good basic information about CEO compensation. Browse by company name.

FreeErisa   
Latest available pension and benefit information for U.S. employers. Using freeERISA.com, you can locate, view and download facsimiles of employers’ most recent form 5500, as filed with the United States Department of Labor. FreeERISA.com also displays the previous year's 5500 filing for a total of 2 years.
Free registration required for full access.

HireDiversity.com   
Online service and resource for job searches, employers and employees with multicultural or multilingual backgrounds.

HR Tools   
Find answers to your HR questions and guidance in your personnel decisions with the articles, tools, and forms on this site. Divided under headings such as Legal Compliance, Training & Performance, and Staffing, these free resources will guide you through the process of effectively managing the people in your organization.
Free registration is required.

Indeed Job Search Listings   
Indeed is a meta-search engine of other job posting sites. Instead of having to search individual job posting sites or local newspapers, Indeed does all of the work for you.

Job Description Writer   
From CareerInfoNet.org, this job description writer brings together information from the Department of Labor, O*NET Online, and your business to create individualized job descriptions.

JobStar Salary Surveys   
Links to salary surveys from a number of published sources.

Minnesota Employee Benefits Survey   
Provides a detailed look at the provision of employee benefits, as well as the proportion of costs they represent compared to wages and salaries, for Minnesota private sector employers. Benefits covered by the survey include medical, dental, vision, paid leave, short and long-term disability, retirement, and some fringe benefits like tuition assistance. Reports: the percent of firms that offer various benefits to any or all employees; the percent of employees who are offered benefits; and the percent of employees who choose to participate in those benefits.

Minnesota Salary Survey Data   
Based on the 1999 and 2000 Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey.
Occupational data is available in code (Standard Occupational Classification) format or in an alphabetical list. All of the specific areas (including both MSAs and Planning Regions) contain all of the employment and wages for the US and Minnesota.

Monster.com   
Apply for jobs online, have job opportunities emailed to you, search for jobs in your neighborhood or across the country, get advice, articles and tools to help manage your career. Requires free registration to build or post a resume.

O*NET Online   
Developed for the Department of Labor, O*NET brings together information on over 950 jobs. Reports break occupations down by typical tasks, work activities, skills, and abilities. Summary reports also include discussions of various aspects of the type of person drawn to the occupation, including work styles, work values, and interests. Detailed reports rank tasks, abilities, and skills by level of importance.

Occupational Outlook Handbook   
Describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. A gold standard resource for job descriptions and career information.

Occupational Outlook Quarterly   
The online version of the BLS periodical, providing practical information on jobs and careers. Enjoy full-text access to articles on topics such as new and emerging occupations, salary trends, and training opportunities.

Salary.com   
Lookup salary ranges by job title and location.

SalaryExpert.com   
Provides salary, bonus, cost-of-living, and benefits data. Offers information on over 31,000 jobs in over 45,000 U.S. and Canadian cities, as well as some international coverage.

Seminar Information   
This site helps you find and enroll in over 360,000 live, in-person seminars, classes, workshops, corporate training events and conferences listed annually. You can search by category, by keyword or use the advanced search program to find seminars and events by sponsor, date or location. If your organization is sponsoring an event, you can easily add a notice to the site as well.

Society for Human Resource Management   
Trade association for HR professionals provides links to HR organizations, frequently asked questions about human resource topics, and current news stories. Make sure to check out the HR Knowledge Center where you'll find downloadable templates, answers to popular HR questions, HR surveys, white papers, case studies, and more. NOTE: Membership is required to access much of the information resources.

Alacra Wiki Industry Spotlights   
Features detailed proprietary reviews and commentary on the best web-based sources of industry specific content

American Society of Association Executives Gateway to Associations   
Associations often track and report on key statistics and trends for their industries. Search for trade associations, industry associations and professional associations with a presence on the InternetTIP: Scroll down to find the association search box, conduct your search, and then investigate the relevant associations' Web sites.

Census - Service Quarterly and Annual Surveys   
These U.S. Census reports provide nation-wide statistics on various service industries and include an annual report along with quarterly updates in some cases.

County Business Patterns   
Every five years, the Census Bureau conducts an economic census of businesses across the U.S. Use this data to access statistics on particular industries by state, zip code, or metro area. First, select a geography: either county, zip, or metro area. Then, narrow your search to a particular industry by clicking the “Details” button next to the initial numbers of your NAICS code.

Economic Census Industry Reports   
The Census Bureau conducts an economic census every five years and publishes reports organized by NAICS code. Every NAICS code is covered, and hundreds of industries are studied. From this site you’ll find a table of industry reports to get you access to nation-wide industry statistics. Click the “More” button next to the initial numbers in your NAICS code for detailed reports.

Google Scholar   
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature and academic research. Conduct broad searches across your industry, searching by industry heading (like “restaurant”), or focus your search by adding additional search terms, like “trends” or “statistics.”

Manufacturing - Current Industrial Reports   
These U.S. Census reports provide nation-wide statistics on various manufactured products. In most cases, current year quarterly data is available. These reports are organized by NAICS code, and cover codes 311 to 366.

NAICS Codes   
NAICS codes are numbers that identify a particular type of business. Many business research publications are organized by these NAICS codes. Use this site to search or browse for a code, or compare NAICS codes to SIC codes.

Price's List of Lists   
Links to published lists and rankings of all kinds, including company rankings. Most, if not all, industries are covered. Some links do require a log-in with the publisher, but many are freely available.

Retail Annual Retail Trade Survey   
These U.S. Census reports provide nation-wide statistics on various retail industries, providing up-to-date sales, inventory, and gross margin figures, among others. Also included are reports on e-commerce sales by sector.

SIC Codes   
SIC codes are numbers that identify a particular type of business. Although these codes haven’t been updated since 1987, many business research publications are still organized by SIC. Use this site to search or browse the Standard Industrial Classification code manual.

Special Issues Index   
Find the most useful and insightful articles and features from "special issues" of business magazines and industry trade journals. Typical features include: industry overviews and forecasts; top company rankings; salary surveys; buyers' guides; consumer surveys and profiles. Try browsing through the journal and subject lists, or search by single keywords or phrases only ("restaurant," "alternative energy," etc.) Articles may be free on the web or available via document delivery from the Hill Library's print collection.

Statistics of US Business   
Find data on the # of businesses--by state, MSA, county, etc--by # of employees and by sales. Also, business "births" and "deaths," expansions & contractions, more.

Valuation Resources Online-Industry Reports   
Use this resource to identify industry resources and data available from trade associations, publications, and research firms. Coverage includes industry overviews, trends, industry outlooks, financial ratios and benchmarking, compensation surveys, and more. Some links include free information, and some are fee-based. Site contains numerous advertisements.

Yahoo! Industry News Center   
This site offers a wide range of industry information such as recent news, statistics, and profiles of industry leaders for about 100 different industries. Though part of Yahoo!, the actual data provided in its Industry Center comes from well-known business information providers like Hoover's and Multex.

BELL: The Business Ethics Links Library   

Business for Social Responsibility   
The CSR Resources area contains briefs and reports on corporate social responsibility topics. The organization also hosts and lists events in the field. Many articles available on corporate social responsibility, spanning topics such as the environment; labor issues; and community investment. Some information is available only to members and subscribers.

Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics   
This organization brings together academics from all over the United States to provide ethical training for current and future corporate leaders.

Caux Round Table Principles for Business   
The Caux Round Table (CRT) Principles for Business are a worldwide vision for ethical and responsible corporate behavior and serves as a foundation for action for business leaders worldwide. As a statement of aspirations, The CRT Principles aim to express a world standard against which business behavior can be measured. These principles are rooted in two basic ethical ideals: kyosei and human dignity.

Center for Ethical Business Cultures   
Assists leaders in creating ethical and profitable business cultures at the enterprise, community and global levels.

Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions - Codes of Ethics Online   
Founded at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions has compiled codes of ethics for professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions. The model codes are organized by topic and are searchable by keyword. The site also features a helpful ethics overview, guidance for writing and implementing a code of ethics, a bibliography of important reference works, and other information.

Codes of Ethics   
This site provides links to the codes of ethics of several companies and business & trade associations. Companies include Halliburton, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johnson & Johnson, Lumen Foods, Marathon Oil, MVK Group, Orelle Corporation, ServiceMaster, and Texas Instruments.

Creating a Code of Ethics for Your Organization   
Launched by Chris MacDonald, an assistant professor of philosophy at St. Mary's University (Halifax, Canada), this site presents a guide to writing an organizational code of ethics. MacDonald explains the value of a code of ethics, offers tips for drafting a code, and supports his advice with links to articles, books, and an online survey.

CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire   
The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news.

Ethical Corporation   
The express purpose of Ethical Corporation magazine is "to analyze the key trends and events in the world of global corporate responsibility." The publication appears monthly in print format (via subscription) and maintains a Web site featuring regular news and information. An e-mail newsletter is available through free registration. Subject categories include the following: codes and guidelines; corporate governance; corporate responsibility communications; corruption and lobbying; environment; ethical consumerism; ethical supply chains; human rights and labor standards; non-financial reporting; regulations, taxes, and legal developments; socially responsible investing; stakeholder and NGO engagement; and others. This is a useful site for those in search of case studies.

Ethics and Compliance Officer Association   
Professional association that provides training, conferences, and meetings for managers of ethics, compliance and business conduct programs.

Ethics Newsline   
Ethics Newsline, published weekly by the Institute for Global Ethics, is an online source for news and information on ethics and current events. A new edition is available every Monday afternoon. It is offered free of charge. Archives and research reports can be searched and viewed.

Ethics Today Online   
Ethics Today is a forum for exploring a broad range of business ethics and character development issues and for introducing and discussing business ethics, global ethics and character development philosophies. Ethics Today is published monthly in electronic format and sent free to registered subscribers. Each issue is also posted online for one month under Current Issue and then preserved in the Ethics Today Archives.

Institute for Business, Technology & Ethics   
An organization that promotes the integration of good business, appropriate technology, and sound ethics.

International Business Ethics Institute   
Private, nonprofit educational organization promoting business ethics and corporate responsibility on an international basis.

International Business Ethics Institute: Business Ethics Primer   
This compact primer defines and profiles business ethics, corporate compliance, corporate and social responsibility, ethics programs, corporate governance, and stakeholder theory. It features a bibliography of relevant ethics publications and a separate list of Web links to associations, organizations, and online publications.

International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE)   
The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE) is a world-wide professional association that focuses exclusively on the study of business, economics, and ethics. Its professional orientation involves people with academic competencies, people with practical competencies in responsible management positions, and entrepreneurs of medium-size and small companies.

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics - Cases   
Case studies covering a range of business ethics topics.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Sustainability Publications   
This PwC site contains a variety of reports, surveys, and other publications treating corporate responsibility, sustainability, and social, environmental, and ethical considerations. Resources include The Corporate Responsibility Report, the Sustainability Yearbook, and others available as PDFs.

Social Venture Network   
SVN promotes new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business through initiatives, information services and forums.

Social Venture Network: Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility   
This document, available as a PDF, serves as a step-by-step guide for implementing corporate social responsibility within your company. Standards and resources are provided for the following areas: ethics; accountability; governance; financial returns; employment practices; business relationships; products and services; community involvement; and environmental protection.

Society for Business Ethics   
An international organization of scholars engaged in the academic study of business ethics.