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10 Ways to be a Better Team Player :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Here are 10 ways to increase your team’s productivity and overall chance for success. Define your success. You may set this bar based on your boss’s expectations, but hopefully by now you have become comfortable with your own definition of success. This will allow you to be properly aligned for success.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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A Practical Approach to Reading Signals in Data

Harvard Business Review

The evolution of underwriting — the process of judging loan eligibility — is another big data success story that's still being told. Prototypically, a bank officer would make credit decisions for applicants based on the applicants' "character" — which church they attended, which school their kids were in, etc.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. I used to discuss the issue at the Fed, “What do we get by being very successful in forecasting?” And I say a bubble.