article thumbnail

Understanding Gen Z in the Workplace

HR Digest

They have been called the most diverse, global, and educated generation to date. Gen Z is the most diverse and global generation to date, which means they are used to working with people from different cultures. This cohort is constantly plugged into social media and technology, making it difficult for them to focus on anything else.

article thumbnail

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. Neither sales nor employment have fully recovered, and credit seems harder to come by. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

article thumbnail

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. Of course, management scholars and practitioners have long recognized the benefits of diversity. Diversity, if managed well, yields divergent thinking and the pooling of a broader base of knowledge results often in better strategic choices.