http://www.nbs.ntu.ac.uk/
staff/lyerj/hrm_link.htm

This is a list of internet resources relevant to Human Resource Management.

http://www.tcm.com/trdev/t2.html

Non-commercial training and HR-related Internet resources sorted alphabetically by name

http://www.capital-gains.com/

Includes links to an ESOP slide show as well as company valuation information.

http://www.the-esop-emplowner.org/

The ESOP Association serving employee owned companies.

http://www.fed.org/

The FED is a non-profit organization which provides leading-edge equity compensation and employee ownership strategies . Can be difficult to reach.

http://www.once.com/gcg/isos.htm

An article explaining incentive stock options.

http://www.nceo.org/index.html

http://www.benefitslink.com/

index.shtml

Link to information and services for employers sponsoring employee benefit plans, companies providing products and services for plans, and employees.

http://www.policiesnow.com/

welcome.html

All of their software is available in try-before-you-buy versions.

http://www.ioma.com/

newsletters/pmr/index.shtml

From the Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA).

http://www.ec2.edu/sba/

022497.html

An article from the Small Business Advisor web page offering practical advice.

http://www.zigonperf.com/Links.htm

Here are links to sites related to performance measurement along with their descriptions.

http://www2.homefair.com/

calc/salcalc.html

Use this calculator to compare the cost of living in hundreds of U.S. and international cities.

http://www.careercity.com/
content/salaries/links.asp

http://www.wageweb.com/

Salary survey data on-line

http://jobsmart.org/
tools/salary/index.htm

http://tn.jobsearch.org/

Employers can post jobs and search for resumes.

http://www.ajb.dni.us/

Includes job market information as well as job posting services.

http://www.monster.com/

Job postings reach a large national audience. Fee based for recruiters.

http://stats.bls.gov/

http://www.skillsnet.com/access.html

Online training available to help improve employee skills.

http://www.tbr.state.tn.us/dist-ed.html

http://www.workteams.unt.edu/

http://users.ids.net/~brim/

sdwth.html

The Self Directed Work Team web site provides links to team resources located across the Net. Teams can discover how other teams work, find ways to develop collaborative thinking and key skills to be more effective.

http://www.muskingum.edu/

~cal/database/database.html

Primarily for secondary educators and tutors. Offers specific methods for categories such as becoming more organized.

http://www.facilitationfactory.com/

index/index.html

The Source pages contain free examples of team building session material. The full list of material requires registration.

http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/

tt/common/cont-sub.htm

Articles on Myers Briggs testing and team building techniques.

http://www.cttbobpike.com/

freereso.htm

Articles as well as master transparencies to help start training sessions.

http://condor.depaul.edu/

ethics/bizethics.html

It is a national magazine focused on socially responsible capitalism - the art of making money ethically, and in a socially responsible manner.

http://www.nbs.ntu.ac.uk/

staff/lyerj/list/hrbe.htm

A meta site of many business ethics resources on the web.

http://www.cis.utk.edu/

CIS helps companies implement new production techniques or business practices, expanding markets or complying with regulations. CIS services are available to companies located in the state of Tennessee and many are free of charge.

http://www.tntech.edu/www/
acad/mrc/welcome.htm

The Center for Manufacturing Research was created in 1984 by the Tennessee General Assembly to help manufacturers improve their manufacturing productivity, while also helping students to obtain a better education in manufacturing-related disciplines

http://www.ec2.edu/sba/operations.html

Useful articles relating to operations management.

http://www.industry.net/

Business ot business information from 4,500 companies. Find suppliers and companies, including industrial catalogs.

http://www.teamflow.com/qdjan98.html

The article begins with the following quote:

" Draw a flowchart for whatever you do.Until you do, you do not know what you are doing, you just have a job."
-- Dr. W. Edwards Deming.

http://www.smartdraw.com/

Simple flowcharting software that can be downloaded and tried out before purchasing.

http://www.goldratt.com/library.htm

Articles addressing the theory of constraints.

http://www.rogo.com/cac/

A web site dedicated to providing resources and information about the Theory of Constraints, the Thinking Processes, Synchronous Manufacturing, and other techniques developed by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt (co-author of The Goal).

http://www.ampl.com/cm/cs/what/

ampl/MORE/index.html

AMPL's (A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming) page of general optimization resources on the Web.

http://www.rasip.fer.hr/
nastava/mis/simlink.html

http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/resource.html

Operations Research resources

http://et.nmsu.edu/~etti/summer97/

manufacturing/qs9000.html

A good overview of the standard and how it differs from ISO 9000.

http://www.aiag.org/edition.html

QS.doc, Inc. has included some compliance issues and ordering information for the newest QS9000 edition.

http://www.stat.ucla.edu/textbook/

A UCLA statistics text book online. May help someone with prior statistics training.

http://www.ec2.edu/sba/042098.html

The use of interim managers is a growing trend. This article offers practical advice.

http://www.mts.net/~ccooke/food.html

The object of this site is to have a dialogue and a resource file on how to build a small food manufacturing company: usually on limited funds, limitied manpower and lots of determination.

http://www.outsourcing.com/

The Outsourcing Institute provides information on outsourcing and related sourcing strategies, news, events, features and services.

http://www.geocities.com/
TimesSquare/1848/japan21.html

This report focuses on the interlinked components and features which constitute the Japanese Kanban process of time-based management

http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/wacho_world.html

 

University of Tennessee Finance Professor Wachowicz's web site that contains excellent links and information for "discerning finance students".

http://www.euro.net/innovation/
Finance_Base/Fin_encyc.html

A Europe based encyclopedia that provides explanation and interpretation for financial words, phrases, and acronyms

http://www.ec2.edu/
sba/accounting.html

Useful articles sorted by release date on topics relating to finance and accounting.

http://www.tech2020.org/
vbrc/articles/taxes.htm

Article by Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain of Knoxville

http://www.pitt.edu/
~roztocki/abc/abctutor/

An Internet online presentation.

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/cover.html

http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html

This document allows you to access the complete text of the United States Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 of the U.S. Code (26 USC) in a variety of ways.

http://www.smbiz.com/

They've been providing tax and management guidance to small and medium sized businesses since 1980.

http://www.dtonline.com/
taxguide97/cover.htm

The Tax Planning Guide has tips and strategies for business owners as well as everyone.

http://www.el.com/elinks/taxes/

Online resources, taxpayer tips and information on income tax preparation assistance, rules, tax code, financial planners and tax preparers, forms (from W-2 to Form 1040), publications, instructions, deductions and filing.

http://www.hrblock.com/tax/

Tax tips and advice; on-line archive of official tax forms; key pages in Spanish; advice about Canadian tax laws.

http://www.taxresources.com/

Tax links.

http://www.tech2020.org/
vbrc/corp_val.htm

Article provided by University of Tennessee's New Venture Finance Professor Michael Ehrhardt

http://www.cocacola.com/
co/essay96.html

A message from the former CEO of Coca-Cola, Roberto C. Goizueta

http://www.sternstewart.com/

The homepage to Stern Stewart & Co. Includes a explanation of EVA.

http://kyyppari.hkkk.fi/~k23347/

A graduate student's page offering explanations of why EVA is a better performance measurement than ROI, NPV, and IRR.

http://www.edgar-online.com/

Online SEC filings.

http://www.corporateinformation.com/

A meta site for finding information on private companies, as well as for international firms.

http://www.wsrn.com/

Wall Street Research Net is a comprehensive resource for investors on the Web, mobilizing the best free, for-sale, and in-depth information into one site.

http://stockmaster.com/

Quotes, charts, financial summaries, SEC filings and more for public companies.

http://www.peerscape.com/tour/

Deloitte & Touche's global financial analysis system. A database of 19,000 companies and 49 countries offers company and industry analysis. Free trial capabilities.

http://www.globalmarkets.com/

Full use of services requires a fee (close to $500 per month for single workstation access). Intended for professional financial analysts. Quick charts and exchange rates available to all.

http://www.briefing.com/

This service costs less than S&P's globalmarkets.com (does not have global information or "real time" reporting) at $25/month. It focuses primarily on the U.S. Treasury market.

http://www.mcmwatch.com/

This site is similar in content to S&P's globalmarkets.com. The site is free unless you want to access MoneyWatch Traveler.

http://www.fool.com/
Features/1996/sp0708a.htm

Liquid takes its name from liquid assets, and it is through the lens of liquidity that MF Templar gazes at the elements of the Consolidated Balance Sheet.

http://www.onlinewbc.org/
docs/finance/index.html

All categories offer practical advice. "Using Navigation Aids: Financial Statements" explains the financial statements and ratio analysis.

http://www.cybersolve.com/
analysis.html

A ratio analysis transforms accounting numbers into meaningful ratios that highlight strengths and weaknesses of a business. This tool does not require a thorough understanding of accounting or finance to be used.

http://www.ibm.com/FinancialGuide/

Basic introduction to reading the financial statements in a company.

http://www.ncedr.org/tools/
othertools/costbenefit/lead.htm

This decision support tool provides a format for enumerating the range of benefits and costs surrounding a decision, aggregating the affects over time using an approach called discounting, and arriving at a dollar-denominated "present value"

http://www.puc-rio.br/marco.ind/tutorial.html

An explanation of the managerial or real options that can be difficult to quantify but never the less add value to decisions.

http://www.alcar.net/web/
homepage.nsf/WebPages/CostOfCapital

Java applet that calculates a weighted average cost of capital (WACC). (Dr. Wachowicz's TIP: Be careful of numerical inputs -- "thirty percent" should go in as "30" and not ".30," for example.)

http://www.cybersolve.com/
breakeven.html

Offers explanation as well as a worksheet for calculating a product's breakeven point.

http://www.liraz.com/profit.htm

Includes advice and examples on forecasting sales and profits as well as developing expense budgets. Excerpt from the  "Managing a Small Business" CD-ROM (site sells it for $49.95 plus $9 S&H).

http://edgeonline.com/
main/bizbuilders/index.shtm

Check out the interactive toolbox on the right of the page. Helpful forms with calculated fields produce financial sheets.

http://www.dtonline.com/
finance/bgcover.htm

Deloitte & Touche's site will help you understand your financing options and prepare you to obtain the financing you need

http://www.experian.com/business.html

Tools, information and tips on getting business credit.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/
pubs/credit/scoring.htm

From the Federal Trade Commission - explains how scoring for credit is used sometimes to determine whether to give a loan or a credit card.

http://www.e-analytics.com/splitd.htm

Offers explanations and examples including topics on tax consequences.

http://www.contingencyanalysis.com/

Here you will find over 300 pages of information on financial risk management. Topics include: value at risk, derivative instruments, credit risk management and financial engineering.

http://www.tech2020.org/
vbrc/funding.htm

Links to the Funding Sources section of the Virtual Business Resource Center.

http://www.ec2.edu/sba/marketing.html

Useful articles sorted by release date on current topics relating to marketing and communications.

http://www.ama.org/

http://www.wmo.com/

Looks at online marketing both as a medium and as a product to help marketers achieve success on the web.

http://www.stager.net/marketing/index.html

http://www.wilsonweb.com/
articles/12design.htm

Includes tips and instructions on how to promote your business online. Link to article on "12 Web Page Design Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need To Make".

http://www.ideasiteforbusiness.com/
ideamenu.htm

Includes 206 free marketing ideas as well as other marketing links.

http://www.morebusiness.com/
templates/mktplan/printpre.shtml

This is a complete marketing plan for a hypothetical company. It includes tables and charts embedded in the text, as they would be generated by Marketing Plan Pro, although because of HTML considerations they are not identical. Marketing Plan Pro is a product of Palo Alto Software.

http://www.siliconvalley-sbdc.org/market.html

Advice on developing a marketing strategy

http://www.apqc.org/topics/topic04.cfm

Includes benchmarking studies and articles.

http://www.maritz.com/
mmri/customer/cva.asp#cva

An outline of objectives and a recommended four step approach to improving customer value and increasing market share.

http://adage.com/index.html

Includes advice and examples on forecasting sales and profits as well as developing expense budgets. Excerpt from the  "Managing a Small Business" CD-ROM.

http://www.gmarketing.com/
tactics/weekly.html

Tips and articles promoting guerilla marketing approaches to improving profits. Focused on small businesses, but applicable to all sizes.

http://www.thomasregister.com/

The site requires free registration. Enables searches of over 155,000 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers to find the industrial products or services company you may want to contact.

http://www.tscentral.com/

Trade Show Central is a free Internet service providing information on more than 50,000 Trade Shows, Conferences & Seminars, 5,000 service providers, and 7,000 venues and facilities around the world.

http://www.itcfonts.com/itc/home.html

Picture fonts are a collection of little thumbnail illustrations and symbols stored in font format-you just type in the corresponding letter and up pops a picture. To make the picture larger or smaller you change the point size. Picture fonts are easy to install and take up a fraction of the space a clip-art collection would.

http://www.fonthaus.com/fonthome.htm

FontHaus is the designer's resource for fonts, royalty-free photographs, PictureFonts, Clip Art and information on type.

http://www.trafficworld.com/
reg/tlinks/sitemap.htm

Traffic World (a weekly logistics periodical) provides a site map for many logistics resources.

http://www.logisticsworld.com/

LogisticsWorld is a directory of logistics resources on the internet.

http://www.bts.gov/smart/
links/transportation.html

http://www.bts.gov/

Supplied by U.S. Department of Transportation

http://arioch.gsfc.nasa.gov/
wwwvl/engineering.html

A NASA site with links sorted by engineering discipline.

http://cdr.stanford.edu/html/WWW-ME/home.html

Charles Petrie of the Stanford Center for Design Research maintains this part of the Virtual Library project.

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html

Wide assortment of scientific and engineering web calculators.

http://www.uspto.gov/

Useful for preliminary patent searches

http://www.patents.ibm.com/

This site was originally developed by IBM to help its researchers and developers. This site provides patent searches and includes drawings.

http://www.sccsi.com/DaVinci/davinci.html

An intellectual property resource for inventors and technology managers. A patent attorney runs the site.

http://www.arentfox.com/
patent/corpsurviv.html

Contains short articles dealing with patents, and the patenting process. They are intended to provide a general overview of issues related to the patenting process.

http://qualitymag.com/doe.html

Four articles on design of experiment case studies.

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs5014/fall.95/
courseNotes/WebPages/

3.ExperimentDesign/ch16/
abrams445.html

Describes three types of experiment design.

http://www.multisimplex.com/
download.htm

Design of experiment software. Ability to download a product demo and slide show differentiates this software site.

http://www.statease.com/

Interesting article

"Experiments Uncover Source of Valve Failures"

(the 2^nd article down on the page) gives an example of how their software was used.

http://www.nebiometrics.com/
software.html

Leads to software vendor sites

http://www.techweb.com/

The latest news stories on technology stocks and the latest trends in technology.

http://www.inventnet.com/page1.html

This site provides assistance in developing and marketing inventions.

http://www.inventing.com/

A site dedicated to showcasing inventions and new products from inventors worldwide.

http://www.invent.org/

http://www.ntis.gov/

The National Technical Information Service is the official source for government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.

http://www.nttc.edu/nttc.html

Federal technologies available for licensing.

http://www.itcompany.com/
inforetriever/dict_pc.htm

Includes links to eleven online computer dictionaries. Helps with defining acronynms and finding tools to convert file formats.

http://www.euro.net/innovation/
Management_Base/

Mantec.Dictionary.html

This site is hard to categorize. It claims to be the largest Internet dictionary on management and technology. It is a handy reference to over 3,000 technology terms.

http://www.news.com/

Tech news first. Includes a database of articles that can be searched by content.

http://www.ec2.edu/
sba/infosys.html

http://www.tucows.com/

Internet downloadable software for Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 3.1 and Macintosh Internet Software, performance rated and checked for viruses.

http://www.softseek.com/

The Business & Productivity category has many subcategories including free add-ons for MS Office products.

http://www.adobe.com/

Read *.PDF files. Many downloads off the Internet are in this format (i.e. tax forms, business plans). Free software download.

http://www.winzip.com/

Shareware file compression utility for Windows.

http://www.ipix.com/

East Tennessee firm provides the free software to view 180 degree fish eye photos (used in CNN site plus many real estate and vacation sites).

http://www.macromedia.com/

Allows websites to provide multimedia material, including sound, animated cartoons, and graphics. (

www.mediadome.com

from Intel)

http://www.real.com/

Listen to radio stations or sound clips over web sites.

http://www.aol.com/aim/

Need to keep in touch with someone who is online more often than available by telephone? This free software lets you direct connect over the Internet.

http://www.brint.com/

Online Resource for business & technology knowledge

http://www.webresource.net/

Free information on a wide range of topics revolving around creating and improving web pages.

http://gartner5.gartnerweb.com/
public/static/home/home.html

Gartner is among the leading authorities on information technology. The interactive site supplies information on hot topics as well as links to vendors.

http://www.metagroup.com/

IT industry research and articles.

http://www.computerworld.com/
home/emmerce.nsf/all/index

Web magazine devoted to e-commerce.

http://rankthis.webpromote.com/

Type in the search criteria that you would like to bring up your web site and see how your site ranks against your competition.

http://www.w3.org/WAI

Guidelines for making your website accessible to the disabled.

http://www.outsourcing.com/

Broader than IT specific issues.

http://web.ansi.org/default_js.htm

http://www.iso.ch/

http://www.nolo.com/index.html

Great link to a publisher of self help law material.

http://www.kentlaw.edu/lawlinks/libraries.html

Links to many law libraries throughout the US

http://www.siliconvalley-sbdc.org/struct.html

Helpful matrix summarizing business structures

http://www.llc-usa.com/
resources/entitycharts.html

Detailed matrix comparing business structures.

http://www.onlinewbc.org/
Docs/finance/org_form.html

One of the first decisions that you will have to make as a business owner is how the company should be structured. This site offers explanations and areas to consider.

http://www.dtonline.com/ba/entities.htm

Learn the differences in legal structures because it matters to your potential liability and your taxes.

http://www.tech2020.org/vbrc/
intellect_prop.htm

Article provided by Knoxville, Tennessee lawyer Michael Sellers.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

http://www.derwent.com/

Worldwide patent search services.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html

This is the home page for Source Translation & Optimization's (STO) Internet Patent Search System, a way for people around the world to perform patent searches, and access information on the patenting process

http://www.trainingmedia.org/copyrght.html

Training Media Association includes some some free information and links to other sites.

http://www.morebusiness.com/
templates/agreements/

Sample business agreements

http://www.strategy-business.com/

Sponsored by Booz, Allen and Hamilton

http://www.ec2.edu/sba/strategy.html

Varied articles on strategy and leadership.

http://www.dismal.com/home.stm

A wide and varied source of economic and demographic information. Helpful in trying to gage business conditions and trends.

http://www.dtonline.com/Buying/Bycover.htm

If you are in the market to acquire a company, you'll want to read Buying A Business. It offers practical tips about identifying targets, structuring deals, tax implications of a purchase, and more.

http://www.dtonline.com/selling/cover.htm

Selling Your Business manual will give you useful strategies for making the deal of a lifetime.

http://www.mergernetwork.com/

Marketplace Technologies, Inc., Cambrige Mass., provides an online marketplace to buy and sell businesses. Contains around 5,000 leads to businesses for sale.

http://www.bizbuysell.com/

Search by state or keywords to find businesses for sale.

http://www.bizquest.com/

http://www.nvst.com/

Requires registration - free 60 day trial.

http://www.acn.net/

An online tool for corporate and industrial site selection. ACN offers detailed profiles of every city, county, and metropolitan area in America.

http://www.selectown.com/

Website for business site selectors.

http://www.bizsites.com/

Bizsites is a tool for corporate executives seeking to manage their companies' growth when facing the need to expand, build a facility and/or relocate operations.

http://www.state.tn.us/ecd/impact.htm

Project Impact is software that will help you evaluate and communicate the impact of a new business location or expansion.