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That is just one small slice of how Mibanco is changing in the face of competition. In 2004 Mibanco had 30 branches; today it has 81, as the firm pushes into remote areas--the coasts, the mountains--trying to hold off commercial banks. Mibanco has started offering savings accounts and has gone to the likes of North Carolina--based Wachovia to finance growth, which helps Mibanco reach more than 5,000 new clients a month. All of that ostensibly benefits borrowers...
...those who haven't experienced it firsthand, e-recruiting can be thought of as an assembly line that picks up the hapless, risk-minimizing Harvard student with no great interest in the business world sometime during junior year and deposits him in the lobby of a Fortune 500 firm with a suit and six-figure salary eighteen months later. What happens in between requires no great effort on the part of the risk-minimizers—besides a well-developed ability to convince themselves that they will be far better positioned to give back to the world from the comfort...
...military's rising use of antidepressants also reflects their prevalence in the civilian population. In 2004, the last year for which complete data for the U.S. are available, doctors wrote 147 million prescriptions for antidepressants, according to IMS Health, a pharmaceutical-market-research firm. This number reflects in part the common practice of cycling through different medications to find the most effective drug. A 2006 federally funded study found that 70% of those taking antidepressants along with therapy experience some improvement in mood...
...around Bush, Obama's is watertight. Leaks are rare, and for all the millions Obama has raked in, Plouffe keeps a sharp eye on where it is going. Consider the salaries: Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson was paid almost twice as much in a month - $266,000 went to his firm, according to her January campaign filing - as the $144,000 that Obama paid Gibbs for all of last year. Obama staffers are expected to double up in hotel rooms when they are on the road and are reimbursed by the campaign if they take the subway (about...
...Antràs, an economist, has studied within-firm international organization of production and is now investigating the impact of nations that invest in other countries’ elections...