People Search
Starting Points
General Business - People Search
Database Resources
- ABI Inform Trade & Industry
Use Advanced Search; look for Last Name, First Name and select Person to search articles in trade publications. - Biography Resource Center
Contains more than 450,000 biographies on over 320,000 people. - Business & Company Resource Center
Search by company name; get a list of officers and titles. - Business Source Complete
Search for articles about the individual. Check company profiles for key employee biographies. - Leadership Library on the Internet
Under Advanced Search, select Corporate, Financial or non-profit. It contains names, titles and brief bios of more than 48,000 corporate executives, including 9,000 corporate board members with their outside affiliations. Some contain photos. Updated daily. - Lexis-Nexis Academic
Choose the People tab on the top right, the enter a name. - Marquis Who's Who
Comprehensive profiles on over 1,000,000 people. - Mergent Online
Search by company name. Go to Executives page for names and titles of executives & directors. - 20th Century Great American Business Leaders
A free database compiled by Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative.
Selected Books
- African-American Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
HC102.5.A2 .K73 in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center - Distinguished Asian American Business Leaders
HC102.5 .A2 H56 2003 in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center - Encyclopedia of American Women in Business: Colonial Times to the Present
HD6054.4 .U6 K753 2004 in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center - National Directory of Minority-owned Business Firms
HC2346.U5 .N322 most current edition in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center - Icons of Business: an Encyclopedia of Mavericks, Movers, and Shakers
HC102.5 .A2D74 2007 in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center - International Directory of Business Biographies
HC29 .I57 2005 in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center - National Directory of Women-owned Business Firms
HC2346.U5 .N323 most current edition in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center - United States Entrepreneurs and the Companies They Built: An Index to Biographies in Collected Works
HC102.5 .A2 N37 2003 in West Campus Library Stacks (2nd floor) - D&B Reference Book of Corporate Managements
HD2745 .D85 most current edition in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center - America's Corporate Finance Directory
HG4057 .A167 most current edition in West Campus Library Barclay Reference Center
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