Small Business

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April 11, 2019 

Is New Tax Law a Dud for Small Businesses?

A new poll of small business owners shows the new tax law has not helped small businesses’ profitability nor has it helped small business owners hire, grow or invest in their businesses. In fact, 65% don’t think l

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April 1, 2019 

Harvard Business School Launches Gender Initiative

Inspiration for the Gender Initiative emerged during the 2013 commemoration of the School’s 50th anniversary of admitting women to its two-year MBA program. As part of that celebration, HBS hosted its first Gender & Work Symposium, an annual ...

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April 1, 2019 

February Retail Sales Down From January, Up 2.7% from Feb. 2018

Retail sales were down 0.7 percent in February seasonally adjusted from January but up 2.7 percent unadjusted year-over-year as delays and revisions related to the government shutdown continued to make comparisons difficult, the National Retail ...

 7 “Gotchas” for Data Engineers New to Google BigQuery

March 29, 2019 

7 “Gotchas” for Data Engineers New to Google BigQuery

Everywhere you look these days, IT organizations are looking to the cloud to solve their data storage, movement, and analytics challenges…and with good reason! Cloud services from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others have revolutionized how we think about data, from an IT and an end user perspective. They’ve vastly reduced the function of the corporate...…

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March 18, 2019 

States Attract New Wave of Tourism With Legalized Cannabis

Currently, the U.S. has only 10 states and the District of Columbia that have legalized cannabis entirely and states such as California, Colorado, and Nevada are the biggest market drivers. Many visitors have traveled to those states ...

 Modern Retailers are Meeting Multichannel Consumer Demands

March 18, 2019 

Modern Retailers are Meeting Multichannel Consumer Demands

As more consumers embrace multichannel shopping, retailers are diversifying their investments online and offline to meet customers’ needs, according to the annual State of Retailing Online study released today by the National Retail Federation and ...