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Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child, The Turner House by Angela Flournoy, and The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen are all recent book award winners and represent just some of our new books. A new non-fiction award winner we have is Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk. Find all these…
Do you need market research for your business idea or a course assignment? Here’s a sampling of new reports published by global market research provider BCC Research: RNA Sequencing: Technologies and Global Markets Bioinformatics: Technologies and Global Markets Solar Thermal Technologies: Applications and Global Markets Thermal and Biological Waste-to-Energy Markets Global Markets and Technologies for…
Over Columbus Day weekend, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Angus Deaton, a professor at Princeton University. We have his 2013 book The great escape: health, wealth, and the origins of inequality. This is on display along with works by previous winners of the Economics prize, including Paul Krugman, Paul Shiller, Elinor Ostrum,…
Horn Library now provides access to a Netflix-like streaming video resource called Kanopy. Kanopy is an on-demand streaming media service that offers award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, as well as foreign films and more. It covers all disciplines and all films come with performance rights. It’s easy to…
Horn Library is pleased to announce the availability of the Greenleaf Online Library which has a strong focus on sustainability, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, environmental policy and management, and more. You can access this new e-book collection on the Library website, alphabetical list of databases. Some features of this collection are: Unrestricted access for…
Horn Library has recently subscribed to Pitchbook as Babson’s new resource for private equity and venture capital information. This resource replaces VentureXpert, formerly available on the ThomsonOne platform. (We no longer subscribe to ThomsonOne.) Pitchbook provides in-depth information and statistics on companies, deals, and investors. Access Pitchbook on the Library website, alphabetical list of databases…
Called Aftermarket Research, this new resource replaces the Investext collection we previously accessed through ThomsonOne’s research module. Thousands of analyst reports from well known as well as smaller, local brokerage and market research providers across the globe are now available to us and provide in-depth company and industry analyses of equity markets. Find the link…
Read the paper online — access it right on the Library home page — or stop off at the Library and read the print copy. The article, titled Outside the Box: Kerry Murphy Healey of Babson College, discusses strategic priorities for our college. Go take a look!
Do you want an interesting book to read on your vacation? Or perhaps just at the end of the day or during your lunch break? Take a look at the Library’s New Books shelf! No, you will not find romance novels, mysteries, or science fiction [go to your public library for that], but you will…
Global Road Warrior and Mango Languages — a winning combination! If you’re traveling abroad and want to find out some of the important details about your destination, such as climate, customs, electrical system, currency, food, points of interest, and lots more, Global Road Warrior has the answers. Need to brush up on your foreign language…
