Research tools for investigating top management teams

1. Top
Management
Teams: Research
Techniques
Linda Hauck, Business
Librarian
Summer 2015

2. Top Management Teams:
Research Techniques
 Demographic profile key corporate
officers
 Strategic corporate events
 Officers comments on corporate actions

3. Top Management Teams:
Research Techniques
Information Rich
Targets
 US Public
Companies
 Foreign companies
traded on US
exchanges
Challenging Targets
 Private companies
 Nonprofit
organizations
 Wholly foreign
companies
 Subsidiaries

4. Team Id: Time Horizon
 WRDS, COMPUTSTAT, Capital IQ
 Mergent Online
 SEC filing 10K or 20-F (Proxy or DEF14A,
compensation)
 Investor’s page on web site
 EDGAR
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webu
sers.htm
 Mergent, Morningstar, Yahoo Fianance & others

5. Team Demographic
Characteristics
 Age
 Education
 Position
 Prior Roles
 Compensation
 Affiliations

6. Demographic Characteristics

7. Demographic Characteristics

8. Corporate Actions & Events
 Events-stock splits, dividends, earnings,
 Actions-Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestiture,
Joint Ventures, Alliances, New Products,
New Markets

9. Corporate Events & Actions

10. Corporate Actions in the News

11. Corporate Actions: Bloomberg Terminal
Ticker, F8
(Equity),
GO, GP,
GO,
Event,
Check off
relevant
categories

12. Officer Commentary
 Investor Relations Page
 Annual Report or 10K
 Business & Trade News
 Conference Calls

13. Conference Call Transcripts: Morningstar,
Reference/USA Onesource, ABI Inform Fair Disclosure
Wire, Seeking Alpha

14. Officer Commentary: ABI Inform, Business Source
Premier, BizJournals & Others…

15. Performance Indicators: Fundamentals & the Street
 Contextualize It: NetAdvantage,
IBISWorld, ReferenceUSA Onesource
 ValueLine, Morningstar, NetAdvantage,
Mergent Online,

16. Questions & Help?
Linda Hauck, Linda.hauck@villanova.edu,
610-519-8766