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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom. Workers motivated by financial incentives alone struggle to perform at the level of the true believer.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.