Biographical Information on Business Figures
This page includes research sources that contain biographical information of successful business figures. In addition to these sources please check the library catalog for individual works of prominent businessmen. From the library home page under FIND BOOKS click on ADVANCED KEYWORD SEARCH and in the field labeled SUBJECT try the following searches: BUSINESSMEN BIOGRAPHY or EXECUTIVES BIOGRAPHY or BUSINESSMEN UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY
Bloomberg Terminal. Comprehensive information on public companies and their executives and board members. Only available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section (Ask at the desk to be logged in)
Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives : United States and Canada. Call number: HG 4057.A4 Latest year available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section; past years available on the normal shelves.
International Directory of Business Biographies. A four volume work on international business figures. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HC 29 .I57 2005 vol.1 - 4 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section
Who's Who in Finance and Industry. A multi-volume work from 1951 - 2003. Known as Who's Who in Commerce and Industy from 1951 - 1969. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HF 3023 .A2 W5 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section.
United States Entrepreneurs and the Companies they Built. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HC 102.5 .A2 2003 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section.
Biographical Dictionary of Management. A two volume work. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HC 29 .B56x 2001 vol.1 - 2 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section
American Business Leaders: from Colonial Times to the Present. A two volume work. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HC 102.5 .A2 H36 1999 vol.1 - 2 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section
Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HC 102.5 .A2 H35 1997 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section
Who's Who Among Top Executives. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HC 102.5 .A2 K35x 1997/1998 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section
African-American Business Leaders: a Biographical Dictionary. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HC 102.5 .A2 I52 1994 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section
Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders. A four volume work. Call number: HC 102.5 .A2 I53 1983 vol.1 - 4
Entrepreneurs, the Men and Women Behind Famous Brand Names and how they made it. Call number: MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HC 29 .F83 1985 Available in the MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Reference Section
Business Biography Master Index: a consolidated index to more than 260,000 biographical sketches of business people who appear in a selection of the principal current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and who's who in the fields of business and finance. Call number: HC 29 .B87x 1987
Hoover's -- Search both private and public companies by the executive's name or by company to see a list of executives for that company. Includes brief biographical and salary information.
ABI/INFORM (ProQuest) -- This database contains articles of business figures. Search by personal name
Business Source Premier (EBSCO) -- Search by subject and look under "people."
Biography Reference Bank (WilsonWeb) -- This database indexes the full text of more than 30,000 biographies and 8,000 obituaries. The biographies are searchable by name, profession (or genre in World Authors), title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, and keyword.
Hoovers -- Search both private and public companies by the executive's name or by company to see a list of executives for that company. Includes brief biographical and salary information.
Zoominfo -- Search both private and public companies by the executive's name or by company to see a list of executives for that company. This resource includes photos and resumes for many executives in addition to brief biographical and salary information.
Reuters -- Search public companies to see a list of their top executives and board members with brief biographical and salary information for most companies.
Business Biographies -- Biographical information of hundreds of business leaders and entrepreneurs (by Information Please Almanac)
Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Business and Finance -- A gateway to biographies on the web (not all links from this site are current).
The Hall of Business -- Business profiles with audio and video clips (by the American Academy of Achievement)
History of Economic Thought: Alphabetical Index -- Biographies of the most leading economist from the Greeks to the present
Nobel Prize Internet Archives -- An alphabetical listing of Nobel prize laureates in economics
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send questions and comments to leticia_camacho@byu.edu:
Leticia
Camacho
Business Librarian
1521 Harold B. Lee Library
(801) 422-1970