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How Revenue-Based Financing Providers Are Revolutionizing Business Funding

Strategy Driven

This flexibility allows startups to scale their business more effectively and quickly without compromising their long-term goals. The former typically lend money based on your credit score and your business’s past cash flow, while the latter often invest in equity and require a large percentage of your company’s stock in exchange for funding.

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Does Bigger Data Lead to Better Decisions?

Harvard Business Review

A large body of research shows that decision-makers selectively use data for self-enhancement or to confirm their beliefs or simply to pursue personal goals not necessarily congruent with organizational ones. After all, the financial sector has been flooded with big data for decades. High Stakes Decision Making An HBR Insight Center.

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How Health Care Changes When Algorithms Start Making Diagnoses

Harvard Business Review

This won’t take doctors out of the loop entirely, but it will create new opportunities and new dangers as the technology evolves and becomes more powerful. Food and Drug Administration’s pilot “Pre-cert” program, which is directed at finding new ways to evaluate technologies like machine learning, is one such example.

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How to Tell If You Should Trust Your Statistical Models

Harvard Business Review

But theory, such as Statistical Learning Theory in Machine Learning , teaches us that predictability typically first improves and then deteriorates as model complexity increases, so adding complexity should not be a goal in itself. Decision making Information & technology'

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business Review

What these stories underscore is that our digital evolution and our productive use of new technologies rests on how well we can build digital trust. the ride-sharing company, the social media platform, and the digital payments technology) of trust. Technology providers must work harder to win and retain user trust.

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Yes, Your Uber Driver Is Judging You

Harvard Business Review

Let the customers know what their scores are, and train employees on how to use the rating system. Is there a technological fix as well? Frei: Of course there will be a score aggregator at some point. So separate out the carrot and stick goals. You need a management system, or it becomes a way of punishing people.

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A Practical Approach to Reading Signals in Data

Harvard Business Review

A wealth of database information has been lying dormant in companies for years — only now we have the technology to understand it. Depending on what you're measuring, it might look something like this: Your goal is to build this matrix, and have it be as large and as complete as possible. Big data isn't new.