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This guide is designed to help you get started with your Business research. Find books, journal articles, and additional resources such as marketing information and company financial data available to you at SFU Library.
Contact info
Mark Bodnar
Business Librarian
SFU Burnaby & Surrey Campuses
mbodnar@sfu.ca
778-782-3044
Moninder Lalli
Business Librarian
SFU Vancouver Campus
moninder_lalli@sfu.ca
778-782-4264
New business books
- Predictable winners : a handbook for developing, forecasting, and launching new products and services /
- Understanding the Future : an introduction to scenario planning /
- Applying Artificial Intelligence in Project Management /
- Global Markets, Diverse Economies : Integrating Economics, Culture and ESG Strategies.
- Social Impact in your Hands : How to Build a Startup That Combines Business With Impact /
- A World Scientific encyclopedia of business storytelling. corporate and business strategies of business storytelling (a 5-volume set) /
- The CEO playbook for strategic transformation : four factors that will make or break your organization /
- The technological republic : hard power, soft belief, and the future of the West /
- Creative construction : the DNA of sustained innovation /
- Everyone's business : what companies owe society /
- The power of datafication : disruption, reconstruction and the rise of new business engines /
- Technology strategies : turning technological change into competitive advantage /
- Space to grow : unlocking the final economic frontier /
- Personal leadership in the age of no retirement /
- Reskilling and upskilling.
- Invested : how I learned to master my mind, my fears, and my money to achieve financial freedom and live a more authentic life (with a little help from Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and my dad) /
- Obsolete : How Change Brands Are Changing the World /
- Critical Theories in Dark Tourism : Issues, Complexities and Future Directions /
- The USMCA and free trade agreements /
- Who pays for diversity? : why programs fail at racial equity and what to do about it /
- The broken rung : when the career ladder breaks for women--and how they can succeed in spite of it /
- Inevitable : inside the messy, unstoppable transition to electric vehicles /
- The fashion entrepreneur : a definitive guide to building your brand /
- Employment is dead : how disruptive technologies are revolutionizing the way we work /
- HBR guide to better recruiting and hiring /
- Export Manager : A Practical Guide to Develop Foreign Markets.
- Leading outside your comfort zone : the surprising psychology of resilience, growth, and well-being /
- Circular fashion management : ideas, perspectives and tools to catalyze change /
- Derivatives Theory and Practice : an Emerging Markets Perspective /
- More human : how the power of AI can transform the way you lead /
Research guides by topic/format
View additional resources for specialized Business research guides by format/ topic, including how to find: annual reports, case studies, financial data, market research, and much more!
Help with course assignments
For help with course assignments and business research, start with these course-specific guides, as well as our topic/format research guides.
200 level
- BUS 200: Business Fundamentals (updated January 2025)
- BUS 216: Essentials of Business Writing (updated December 2021)
- BUS 217W: Critical Thinking in Business (updated June 2022)
- BUS 272: Behaviour in Organizations (updated Fall 2023)
300 level
- BUS 320: Financial Accounting: Assets (updated September 2024)
- BUS 322: Intermediate Managerial Accounting (updated January 2025)
- BUS 336: Data Analytics and Visualization (updated October 2024)
- BUS 338: Foundations of Innovation (updated February 2023)
- BUS 341: Fundamentals of Marketing
- BUS 343: Introduction to Marketing (updated Spring 2025)
- General guide to secondary market research resources
- Video: Secondary Research for Business Decisions: Foundations for Estimates
- Video: Actions vs Words: Understanding a Company's Strategies Using News Sources
- Company information research guide
- Industry surveys research guide
- Company strategies research guide
- Resources to help with:
- BUS 345: Marketing Research (updated Fall 2024)
- BUS 347: Consumer Behaviour (updated Summer 2025)
- BUS 360W: Business Communication (updated Spring 2025)
- BUS 393: Commercial Law: Use the Commercial Law guide
400 level
- BUS 421: Accounting Theory (updated November 2022)
- BUS 430: Cross-Cultural Management (updated March 2022)
- BUS 431: Business with East Asian Countries (updated May 2022)
- BUS 432: International Human Resource Management (updated December 2021)
- BUS 447: Global Marketing Management (updated Fall 2024)
- General resources: International Market Research web guide.
- BUS 478: Strategy (Fall 2024)
- Researching company strategies (research guide)
500 level
- BUS 510: Financial Accounting / Managerial Accounting (formerly BUS 550/551) (updated Aug 2019)
- BUS 555 Managerial Finance (updated Spring 2024)
- BUS 561: Business Communication (updated Aug 2019)
600 level
- BUS 615 Marketing (Fall 2023)
- BUS 655: Industry Consulting Project (Spring 2025)
700-800 level
- BUS 708: Financial Management: Handout - Word & Fillable PDF
- BUS 720: Special Topics: Consulting Project (Summer 2024)
- BUS 741: Business and BC's Indigenous Communities
- BUS 754: Marketing Tech-based Products and Services (Vancouver)
- BUS 764: Financing the Organization: Handout - Word & Fillable PDF
- BUS 774: Industry Consulting Project
- BUS 791: Opportunity Identification & Assessment (Vancouver)
Master's programs
- Library Guide for Graduate Business Programs
- Library guide for Executive MBA Americas
- Library Guide for Executive MBA in Indigenous Business Leadership
- IBL-EMBA Library Orientation (Fall 2022)
- Library Workshop IBL-EMBA (Spring 2022)
- Library Workshop IBL-EMBA (Fall 2022)
- Belzberg Library Information for Graduate Business Programs
PhD program
- PhD Orientation (link to Prezi) September 2017
Other
- Advancement (Fall 2023)
- Mitacs i2I (Fall 2024)
- Market Research: Starting Points (one-pager)
- Puzzles & Pyramids: Efficient Business Research (video)
- Actions vs Words: Understanding a Company's Strategies Using News Sources (video)
- Secondary Research for Business Decisions (video)
- Research guides: Company Information, Industry Surveys, Market Research, International Market Research, Company Strategies
- Radius - Slingshot
- Presentation (Spring 2019)
- Presentation (Spring 2019)
- CCTP (Spring 2025)
- Venture Connection Workshop (Fall 2021)