Tapestry 2.0: The Trust Gap
AEO follows-up the success of the original report with a new study that is focused on identifying strategies to address one of the key barriers to Black busi...
November 29, 2022
Contracting for Equity: Best Local Government Practices that Advance Racial Equity in Government Contracting and Procurement
This report investigates best local government practices in inclusive contracting to increase access by businesses owned by people of color and women to gove...
May 27, 2021
Getting Big Impact from Big Data
This article focuses on the transformation and potential challenges that can occur when new technology is adopted into businesses. Data analytics provide eff...
May 4, 2020
Bend, Don”t Break: Small Business Financial Resilience After Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
This report dials-in on the financial resilience of small businesses after natural disasters, specifically Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. By drawing from the JP...
April 23, 2020
Three-in-Ten U.S. Jobs are Held by the Self-Employed and the Workers They Hire
Using the U.S. Census Bureau data, this report estimates the number of self-employed payrolls and how the job creation varies depending on the self-employed ...
April 23, 2020
Gender, Age, and Small Business Financial Outcomes
This publication explores the contributions of small businesses and differences in outcomes by owner age and gender. The report focuses wealth insights on fi...
April 23, 2020
Cash is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days
This report on the small business sector explores the financial well-being of 600,000 small businesses. The analysis finds that most small businesses do not ...
April 23, 2020
Creating Viral Impact in Black Communities through Small Business Expansion
This report highlights opportunities for growth in Black-owned small business expansions. It emphasizes the nation's need to address broken economies in low ...
April 23, 2020
Key Soft Skills That Foster Youth Workforce Success Towards a Consensus Across Fields
Soft skills are defined as competencies, behaviors and personal attitudes to enable environments with other people as well as goal achieving. This publicatio...
April 23, 2020
European Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan Report
This report provides details about the European Entrepreneurship 2020 Action plan developed to reignite the entrepreneurial spirit to create entrepreneurial ...
April 22, 2020
Longitudinal Analysis of Early Self-Employment in NLSYs
This publication explores the United States self-employment workforce and patterns of self-employment workers. The analysis provides demographic characterist...
April 22, 2020
Credit Scores and Credit Market Outcomes
This report summarizes data provided by the SSBF and KSF to provide information about the business credit scoring effect on Women-owned and minority-owned bu...
April 22, 2020
Disparities in Capital Access between Minority and Non-Minority-owned Businesses
This report emphasizes the important contribution of minority business enterprises (MBEs) to the US economy. The analysis emphasizes inadequate access to fin...
April 22, 2020
Black and White: Access to Capital among Minority-Owned Startups
Using the Kauggman Firm Survey, this paper analyzes the important question if ethnic minorities have adequate access to financial capital to further expand b...
April 22, 2020
Crossing the Employer Threshold: Determinants of Firms Hiring Their First Employee
This report explores the impact of job creation by small business on full economic recovery. The analysis emphasizes the lack of relationship between decisio...
April 22, 2020
Culture, Collaboration and Capital
This guide provides a toolkit for promoting equal treatment and emphasizes the benefit of diversifying contractors and opening the procurement process. The r...
April 22, 2020
Impact of Gender and Social Networks on Microenterprise Business Performance
This report analyzes the relationships of gender, social network stability and microbusiness performance. The publication emphasizes past research and identi...
April 22, 2020
Myths, Exaggerations & Uncomfortable Truths
This publication explores the fundamental distinction between millennials and their older employee counterparts and how millennials influence the workplace. ...
April 22, 2020
Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Women-Owned Firms
This report explores the experiences and challenges of women-owned small businesses. Data indicate that women-owned firms start with less capital and raise l...
April 21, 2020
Economic Mobility Research and Ideas of Strengthening Families Communities and the Economy
This publication explores the impact of economic mobility as the center to the American economy. The status of economic mobility, how it differs across the p...
April 21, 2020
Small Business Credit Survey – Report on Minority Owned Firms 2019
This annual report on the Small Business Credit Survey explores financing and challenges that face minority-owned firms. Small business ownership and entrepr...
April 21, 2020
Small Business Owner Report 2016
This semi-annual report explores the challenges, successes and perspectives of small business owners across the country. This report looks closely at the rol...
April 21, 2020
State of Small Business in America
This report explores the impact of small business growth and job creation in America. This report examines challenges such as access to capital, workforce sk...
April 21, 2020