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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. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Running a State Health Insurance Marketplace

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Technological challenges. Burwell, the U.S.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. By providing software and counseling, the exchanges will help consumers make informed comparisons among these offerings. Many conservatives still decry the ACA.

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China’s New Development Bank Is a Wake-Up Call for Washington

Harvard Business Review

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. Companies like Apple and Cisco were dropped from the Chinese government’s approved technology vendors list, after the Edward Snowden leaks about the NSA accessing data from U.S. In comparison, the U.S.