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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler.

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

Harvard Business Review

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital. Finance Small/medium business Technology' small businesses.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

Deficits started ballooning again, and really blew up after the financial crisis of 2008. So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. The answer would generally seem to be, yeah, in the middle of a once-in-80-years economic crisis, we'd be better off without any limits on the federal government's ability to spend more than it takes in.