Mba Students Appear Remarkably Sanguine In The Face Of A Difficult Job Market.
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There should be nothing more disheartening for an MBA student than, after all that work, graduating into an economic downturn. Particularly when the organisations suffering the biggest economic woes are prime recruiters of MBAs: financial services and banks. But, while no one doubts that the prospects for the economy and job market have worsened, compared [...]
Seeking A Hubbie Get A Degree
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Women with degrees are more likely to marry than their less educated sisters, in a dramatic reversal of an established pattern, new analysis of the 2006 Austarlian census shows.
Those who have been to university are now the ones with the best chance of finding a husband, leading some to worry that marriage is becoming the [...]
Brain drain and talent mismatch hold Taiwan back
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - When Bernard Liu was looking for people to join his team of equity researchers at JPMorgan in Taiwan last year, he found a labor market lacking people qualified to work in the global financial services sector.
In the end, it took him a whole year to fill the three posts.
“It’s typically a much [...]
Brain drain talent mismatch hold Taiwan back
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - When Bernard Liu was looking for people to join his team of equity researchers at JPMorgan in Taiwan last year, he found a labor market rich in engineers but lacking in people qualified for the service sector.
In the end, it took him a whole year to fill the three posts.
“It’s typically a [...]
Congress frets over sluggish student loan market
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid growing concern about the sluggish student loan market, two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to ensure loan availability this summer as young people headed for college lock in their financing.
The bills from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and California Rep. George Miller, both Democrats, would mandate a sharply higher level of federal [...]
Lou Suffers Blackstone#39;s #39;Fat Rabbits#39; in China Fund (Update1)
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Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — When Lou Jiwei visited Switzerland
one spring weekend in 1993, the Chinese government economist was
so eager to see the inside of a Swiss bank that Credit Suisse
Group opened its Zurich head office on a Sunday to show him
around. [...]
Carney May Resist FedLike Rate Cuts to Curb Canada#39;s Inflation
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Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Mark Carney, the former Goldman Sachs
Group Inc. investment banker who takes over the Bank of Canada
today, may resist matching Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernankes rapid
interest-rate cuts in a bid to secure his inflation credentials.
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Selling Roads Proves Last Resort as Taxes Dwindle (Update2)
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Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — The widening budget deficits across
the U.S. are forcing California, New York and other big states
to consider the once unthinkable decision to sell their roads
and lotteries for cash that no one wants to raise with new
taxes.
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Musical Indonesian Billionaires Bet Oil Growth on Libya Gusher
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Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — During a sultry Jakarta evening in
late November, Hilmi Panigoro, chief executive officer of PT
Medco Energi Internasional, turns to two guests at a sprawling
corporate residence. “Maybe I can play the piano for you, he
says with a smile. [...]
Bain Capital to buy Bright Horizons for 1.3 bln
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc (BFAM.O: Quote, Profile, Research), a provider of employer-sponsored child care and early education, said on Monday it would be bought by private equity firm Bain Capital for $1.3 billion.
The deal highlights a major shift going on in the private equity sector, where the credit crunch and [...]
