This document provides research techniques for analyzing top management teams, including researching their demographic profiles, strategic corporate events, and officers' comments on corporate actions. It outlines sources for gathering information on team demographics, corporate events and actions, and officer commentary, such as SEC filings, news articles, and conference call transcripts. Key databases and resources are also listed that can help in contextualizing a company's performance and researching information-rich and challenging targets.

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