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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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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The landscape has undergone major transformations since the global financial crisis. For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Firestone blamed Ford for unsafe vehicles.

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. But there is a question that hasn’t been asked: Is there a digital upside to this crisis? Long before the current crisis, we found that residents of Delhi spent 6 million hours and $1.5 Sounds bad, right?