LibGuides: Business of Art & Design: Portfolios & best business practices

Books to help you Create a successful Design Portfolio

Breaking in over 100 product designers reveal how to book cover

Breaking In: Over 100 product designers reveal how to build a portfolio that will get you hired

Flaunt : designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work

How to Create a Portfolio and Get Hired

Books on creating Fashion & design portfolios

Portfolio for Fashion Designers

Designing Your Fashion Portfolio

Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers

Graphic Design Portfolio Strategies for Print and Digital Media

The Graphic Designer's Guide to Portfolio Design

LinkedIn Learning at FIT

LinkedIn Learning at FIT

LinkedIn Learning offers step-by-step video tutorials on design skills and the top tools in use by professionals together with downloadable supplemental materials and exercises that you can use to build your portfolio.

FIT provides access to LinkedIn Learning for all students, faculty, and staff.

Entrepreneurship

Never Get a Real Job by Scott Gerber
Call Number: e-book
Careers! : professional development for retailing and apparel merchandising
E-book

Business Codes of Ethics & Corporate Responsibility

About.com: Business Ethics See also: About.com: Human Resources"Expert chosen" guides, with links to websites with articles, directories, rankings, etc.
BCorporation "B Corp certification is to sustainable business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee or USDA Organic certification is to milk." Search by company name or industry, read news stories of companies' efforts around the world.
Business Ethics Magazine Includes sections on corporate award winners, annual list of “100 best corporate citizens“ (with profiles, comparisons, and statistics) and socially responsible investing.
Business for Social Responsibility Covers issues such as child labor, living wages, volunteerism, sustainability, and mission statements. "Issue Briefs" (under "research") are overviews of issues such as "Domestic Partner Benefits " "Forest Friendly Practices " and "Work Life Quality. Also news from CSR Wire. Affiliated with Net Impact , an organization founded by, and directed toward, graduate business students and “new leaders”.
Center for the Study of Ethics in the professions Good for finding case studies with discussion, sometimes presented in a whimsical, informal style. Long list of links to global ethics organizations and university programs, from center based at Loyola Marymount University.
Codes of Ethics Collection Codes of ethics in various fields: business, government, and non-profit organizations. Also links to related online ethics resources and organizations.
CorpWatch Emphasis is on how individuals can get involved in efforts to promote positive corporate attitudes. Searchable news site covering companies that comply with or violate ‘acceptable’ labor and environmental practices. “Research tools” and web links cover issues such as human rights, socially responsible investment, and sweatshops.
CSRwire.com: Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire Searchable business news site. “Resources” section includes articles on ethical and socially responsible business practices, and links to organizations that monitor business activities for environmental and humanitarian compliance. Sister organization to One Report , the "sustainability reporting network", with news and articles and which offers oversight for companies for a fee.
Ethical Corporation Free registration required to access timely full-text articles on a wide variety of topics such as green marketing and “limits of corporate responsibility“. Search by topic, world region, or format (e.g. case studies or interviews).
Ethics & Compliance Officer Association Links to business ethics and compliance news and "resources": internal (ECOA Resources") and external ("links") directories and reports. FAQs discuss codes of conduct, government compliance regulations, and the responsibility of ethics officers.
Ethics Resource Center Long-standing organization devoted to reporting and oversight of corporate and organizational ethics. "Resources" and "ERC Publications" sections link to relevant guides, articles, reports, surveys, videos, podcasts, etc.
Ethisphere "Ethical news and commentary" website. Includes quarterly ratings on benchmarks for corporations, compliance ratings. Also: events calendar, blog and an "experts corner" where corporate ethics and compliance officers discuss aspects of their companies' policies.
Global Reporting Initiative Site for a "collaborating centre of the United Nations Environment Programme". News and guidelines on international efforts on sustainability (including reporting those efforts). Resource Library has full-text reports on specific sectors, and related human rights and ethics issues
International Business Ethics Institute Overview, discussion, and definitions of general business ethics, corporate governance, corporate responsibility and, social responsibility. Selected articles from back issues of International Business Ethics Review.
MSCI Environmental, Social & Governance (was:KLD's Domini 400 Social Index) The website for this series of pioneering mutual funds. Also similarly-minded funds such as Calvert , Pax World Funds, and other links at SocialFunds.com
Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research Based at the Wharton School of Business, includes links to periodicals (see "Ethics Today" section) and other institutes’ websites (under “Research Links”). Individual reports and articles linked to the university’s site Knowledge at Wharton (“Center Sponsored Research” and “New Developments”), free access with registration.