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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Although the online small business lending market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation.

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Does Bigger Data Lead to Better Decisions?

Harvard Business Review

It is not Big that matters, it is Diversity that matters. But Diversity is new. They can then link this data with in-depth market research as well as social media data from Twitter or Facebook. Of course, management scholars and practitioners have long recognized the benefits of diversity. Take large retailers.