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How Politics Affects Peer-To-Peer Lending

The Horizons Tracker

The attractiveness of an individual’s loan request to potential investors typically hinges on factors such as a favorable credit score and a reasonable loan proposal. To explore this question, the researchers utilized data obtained from the peer-to-peer lending platform prosper.com, spanning the period from 2006 to 2011.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

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Why Are Workers Are Getting A Smaller Piece Of The Economic Pie?

The Horizons Tracker

Central to their theory is the outsized success of so called “superstar firms”, whose progress has played a bigger role in the shift than factors such as automation, the growth in international trade, the decline of union power, or outsourcing, as proposed by other economists. Uneven spread.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

A brewing example of the opportunity for grassroots leadership through social power is the proposed building of a publicly-owned bridge between the busiest U.S.-Canada Those people respond to money," says Rich Robinson, director of Michigan Campaign Finance Network, a private group that tracks donations. Canada border crossing.

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How To Find “Hidden” Federal Contracts: Network :: Women on Business

Women on Business

In addition, when your bid is the first time a government agency learns of your company, you can be sure your proposal is heading for the bottom of the pile. Government agencies and their purchasing/contracting officers often rely on pre-existing relationships and preferred vendor lists for all of these less lofty contract awards.

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To the class of 2011, Choose debt free! Part Two

Reiter Thinks

This is part two of the blog, To the class of 2011. It picks up with my predictions for what the class of 2011 might expect now as they move forward with their lives over the next couple of years. Here’s what I propose. Here’s how the scenarios might look to a majority of you. Keep doing that. You can do it. Go to work.

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