Industry and market research

• Passport

  • Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. 

  • Search tips: to begin, enter industry or concise keyword and geography keywords in search (ex: mobile Argentina),  select "Analysis" tab for full industry reports; Or, go to "Consumers" section in the top bar to brows reports on consumer lifestyles, especially the Megatrends listed on the Lifestyles landing page. 

• EMIS

  • Useful for: emerging market information, including company info, news and niche industry reports.  Strong foreign language news component.

  • Search tips: At the top of the page under Region/Country, deselect all and re-select your GEO country.  Then enter industry or company keywords.  Can search in multiple languages.

Country information and data

• Economist Intelligence Unit

  • Useful for: in-depth country information covering recent economic and political developments, risk and regulation, and the broad business environment.

  • Search tips: go to Data Tool to download specific indicators of interest, including indicators relating to consumer consumption, income, demographics, etc.

  • Argentina EIU Country Report (PDF)

• Oxford Business Group Country Reports

  • Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc).  

News

• Bloomberg.com

  • Useful for: business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News.

• Factiva

  • Useful for: targeted news search on specific industries, companies or countries

  • Search tips: use News Pages to read today’s news from selected newspapers such as Wall Street Journal; use the Search Builder under the Search tab when conducting a news search within the database. It allows to limit a search by date, region, source, headline, etc.

• EMIS (See above)

Company Research

• PitchBook, CB Insights, and Capital IQ

  • Useful for: company profiles, financials, deals, etc. 

  • Search tips: the databases require individual account setup. Follow the instruction on the given Baker webpage to do so if you are first time using them.

Additional Resources:

• ABI/ProQuest

  • Useful for: targeted publications on business and management topics such as strategy, business model, design new services, retail trends, etc.  

• Statista 

  • Useful for: quick statistics on various topics such as Argentina wine sales volume, etc.

Contact infoservices@hbs.edu for further project specific information research support.