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More and More Jobs Today Require a License. That’s Good for Some Workers, but Not Always for Consumers

Harvard Business Review

But one trend that hasn’t received nearly enough attention is the steady rise of occupational licensing: more and more jobs are requiring workers to be licensed to enter the profession. In the early 1990s, 800 occupations required licenses in at least one state. Today, 21 states require opticians to obtain a license to work.

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Sustainable Business Initiatives Will Fail Unless Leaders Change Their Mindset

Harvard Business Review

The system changes required to make value chains sustainable require unprecedented levels of trust and cooperation among economic actors. This isolated mindset blinds leadership to the necessary innovations required to profitably address the great systemic challenges before us.

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The Downside of Health Care Job Growth

Harvard Business Review

gross domestic product and public sector budgets that are consumed by health care over the long term, therefore, will require either increasing labor productivity or substantially lowering workforce salaries. With these payment models, providers make more money when they invent more cost effective approaches to delivering high-quality care.

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What If All U.S. Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar?

Harvard Business Review

Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020. solar industry is creating a lot of jobs , bringing on new workers 12 times faster than the overall economy. The writing on the wall for the coal industry is clear.

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How to Understand the EU-U.S. Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

took a similar path in 1996, requiring local phone companies to “unbundle” their old networks at rates overseen by the Federal Communications Commission. So it’s no surprise that European regulators are now eager to reverse course and open their markets to real competition. At least for voice services, the U.S.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

In a 600-page proposed rulemaking , the SEC moved to implement key provisions of the 2012 Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (or JOBS Act). That’s because state and federal law prohibits companies from selling equity without complying with complex filing and reporting regulations.

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How Today’s Political Polling Works

Harvard Business Review

So far this year, pollsters have put out more than 400 national Presidential general election polls, an average of about two per day; if the 2012 election is any guide, pollsters will be releasing as many as four per day as Election Day nears. In 1997, a national sample of about 800 respondents required between 2,000 and 2,500 calls.