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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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Equifax and Why It’s So Hard to Sue a Company for Losing Your Personal Information

Harvard Business Review

Equifax finds itself in a crosshairs not seen since the 2013 Target breach; the legal and regulatory repercussions are coming at record speed. The breadth of the information held, and thus potentially compromised in the recent breach, is staggering.