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Who’s Hiring (and Who Isn’t) in Five Charts

Harvard Business Review

To start, here’s how things have gone for the main broad job categories (and three smaller ones of interest: finance, construction, and information) since 1980: The most remarkable line in the chart is education and health services, which just keeps rising and rising, paying no mind whatsoever to the rest of the economy.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

Several years ago, a friend had come to me with her dream: She wanted to start a magazine. The magazine got off to a great start: it was written up in the New York Times , circulation after a few months reached 100,000. I wasn't going to do this to our business partner and friend with her magazine dream. It was devastating.