This document provides techniques for researching top management teams. It discusses researching demographic profiles of key corporate officers, strategic corporate events, officers' comments on corporate actions, and performance fundamentals and the market. Specific resources are recommended for gathering information on team demographics, corporate actions and events, officer commentary, and performance indicators. Contact information is provided for any questions.

1. Top Management
Teams: Research
Techniques
Linda Hauck, Business
Librarian
Summer 2016

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

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-Execucomp
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 SEC filing 10K or 20-F (Proxy or DEF14A,
compensation)
 Investor’s page on web site
 EDGAR
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.ht
m
 Morningstar Insiders Tab, Yahoo Fianance & others

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

6. Demographic Characteristics

7. Demographic Characteristics
Lexis-Nexis Company Dossier, Executives or Find Marquis
database

8. Demographic Characteristics
Boardroom Insider Profiles via ABI Inform

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

10. Corporate Events & Actions
NetAdvantage News, Events, Filings, Key
DevelopmentsCustomize View

11. Corporate Events & Actions

12. Corporate Actions in the News

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

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

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

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

17. Performance Indicators
Industry Reports for Context
 NetAdvantage
 IBISWorld
 Onesource
 Mergent WebReports
Fundamentals & The
Street
 Morningstar
 Valueline
 Onesource
 Mergent Online
 NetAdvantage

18. Questions & Help?
Linda Hauck, Linda.hauck@villanova.edu, 610-
519-8744