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Ford Library is pleased to announce subscriptions to the new ESG-focused data sets below. All of these data sets are hosted on the WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) platform, and are available to all Duke University students, faculty, and staff.

Refinitiv ESG Data – via WRDS

ESG Scores from Refinitiv are designed to transparently and objectively measure a company’s relative ESG performance, commitment and effectiveness across 10 main themes (emissions, environmental product innovation, human rights, shareholders, etc.) based on publicly-reported data. Data modules include: company screening data, company summary data, industry aggregates, category data, driver & outcome data, and board member data. After connecting to WRDS, select Get Data > Thomson/Refinitiv > Refinitiv ESG

S&P Global ESG Scores via WRDS

An environmental, social and governance dataset that provides company level, dimension level, and criteria level scores based on the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) process and publicly available sources, allowing research on impact to a company’s business value drivers, including growth, profitability, capital efficiency, and risk exposure. After connecting to WRDS, select Get Data > Compustat-Capital IQ > Trucost and S&P Global ESG Scores

Has a return to work or the in-person learning experience left you open to distractions that are driving you to … distraction?

These 3 Wall Street Journal articles offer some useful advice on overcoming distractions while adjusting to in-person work, as well as tips to avoid burnout.

All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com.

• Fix Burnout—Without Blowing Up Your Life – After an intense 20 months of pandemic work and life, many are reaching a breaking point. Here’s how to retake control. By Ray A. Smith
• Was the Office Always This Distracting? Get Ruthless About Your Productivity Now – Chatty colleagues and hybrid meetings don’t have to break your concentration as you transition from remote work. There are in-person meetings and intractable Zoom calls clogging your calendar… and everyone wants to say hi. – By Rachel Feintzeig
• Don’t Be That Awkward Colleague: A Guide to Office Etiquette – As we head back to work, everything from face masks to greetings can be fraught. – By Rachel Feintzeig

In this blog post, Ford Library honors the Juneteenth holiday by sharing some selected e-book acquisitions and articles from our online collections and subscribed resources that focus on related timely and important topics.

Ford Library remains committed to pursuing a strong collection of resources that concentrate on the interrelationship of business with diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The titles below are only a sample of our newly added holdings, and we encourage our Fuqua faculty, staff, and students to send suggestions for additional new acquisitions to library-requests@fuqua.duke.edu, attention: Julie Harris.

E-Books

• Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
• Organizational Justice and Organizational Change : Managing by Love
• ‘Counting Black and White Beans’ : Critical Race Theory in Accounting
• The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
  – also available as an audiobook
• Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
  – also available as an audiobook
• The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
  – also available as an audiobook

Articles

All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com.

• CFO Journal : Racially Diverse CFOs Are in High Demand, but Challenges Persist
  – While minorities already in the executive ranks are seeing more opportunities, it can be difficult for those without C-suite experience to break in, recruiters and finance professionals say.
• CEO Pay Increasingly Tied to Diversity Goal
  – McDonald’s and AmEx are among the companies tying executive compensation to adding women and people of color to leadership ranks
• Pittsburgh Is Losing Black Residents. One Entrepreneur Is Trying to Bring Them Back.
  – Venture capitalist David Motley is on a mission to help Black professionals take advantage of city’s rebirth as a center for technology, healthcare and education.
• Peaches Golding Is a Pioneering Representative of the Crown
  – An African-American businesswoman who serves as an official of Queen Elizabeth knows ‘the power of visibility.’
• The Daughter of a Slave Who Did the Unthinkable: Build a Bank
  – The first Black woman to run a U.S. bank, Maggie Lena Walker opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank on the first floor of St. Luke Hall on November 2, 1903, in Richmond, Va..

Suggested By Faculty

New Scholarly Journal – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: an international journal
– Many thanks to Fuqua Prof. Angelica Leigh for her recommendation!

Thank you for reading! — please send suggestions for additional new acquisitions to library-requests@fuqua.duke.edu, attention: Julie Harris.

Here are the latest titles in our DVD collection:

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Color Out of Space
Ford v Ferrari
Frankie
Frozen II
The Good Liar
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Last Christmas
Midway
21 Bridges
The Twilight Zone, season 1 (2019)
Waves
Wild Nights With Emily

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

Here are the latest additions to our DVD collection:

American Woman
The Art of Self-Defense
Haunt
The Haunting of Hill House, season 1
The Lion King
Luce
Midsommar
Satanic Panic
Toy Story 4
The Wedding Guest
Angel of Mine
Door in the Woods
Them That Follow

Avengers: Endgame
Booksmart
Brightburn
A Dog’s Journey
Finding Steve McQueen
Godzilla, King of the Monsters
The Hustle
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Ma
Mary Magdalene
Plus One
Rocketman
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Tolkien
The Tomorrow Man

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

Here are the latest additions to our DVD collection:

Alita : Battle Angel
Dumbo
Family
Fast Color
Hellboy
The Intruder
Little
Long Shot
Missing Link
Pet Sematary
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Shazam!
UglyDolls
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

Here are the latest additions to the DVD collection:

Apollo 11
Ashes in the Snow
Cold Pursuit
Fighting with my Family
Gloria Bell
Happy Death Day 2U
J.T. LeRoy
The Kid
The Least of These
The Little Mermaid
The Upside
What Men Want
Woman at War
The Aftermath
The Best of Enemies
Captain Marvel
Captive State
Five Feet Apart
Hotel Mumbai
Killing Eve: season 2
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The Mustang
The Public
Us
Wonder Park

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

Here are latest additions to our DVD collection:

Arctic
Destroyer
A Dog’s Way Home
Glass
The Hole in the Ground
Holmes & Watson
Level 16
On the Basis of Sex
Patrick
Replicas
Rust Creek

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

Here are the latest additions to our DVD collection:

Aquaman
Bumblebee
Fantastic Beasts: The crimes of Grindelwald
Green Book
If Beale Street Could Talk
Instant Family
Mary Poppins Returns
Mortal Engines
The Mule
Spider-Man, Into the Spider-Verse
Stan & Ollie
Vice

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.