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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business

Personal credit scores like FICO consider a combination of metrics such as payment history, current level of indebtedness, and types of credit used by potential small business borrowers. Others have even gone as far as to use data from social media sites like Yelp in their predictive formulas.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.). Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g., Case Study: Blue Apron.