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...recently reported that Google (GOOG) has created software that can predict whether its employees will quit. The next step will be that the search company will forecast which people it will fire. That should save its human resources staff a great deal of time and anguish. Google may even find that HR is not necessary. Software can perform all of the functions that a human can. (Read: "How Not to Be Hated on Facebook: 10 More Rules...
David Bliss, head of consulting firm Oliver Wyman's board-advisory unit, says he has been busy and has received more calls from large financial firms in the past few months. Nonetheless, Bliss says the most troubled banks may have a tough time finding willing and able directors. He says it's harder today to find people to serve on corporate boards, in part because Sarbanes-Oxley has increased the work that board members must do. But Bliss says the biggest thing that keeps people from serving on a bank board is the social risk. "No one wants...
...poor cell phone reception in the Quad—an issue that the College has been working to resolve, Galvin wrote. Other delays likely resulted from the difference in cell phone service providers among Message Me users, he added. But another bug affected those who did eventually find the texts on their phones. The second sentence of the messages were truncated to read “Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi—” cutting off the two final words, “the area.” The error resulted from the Message...
...opened The Crimson on December 7, 1996, you would have discovered a news feature about a student trying to find room in his schedule to get to Boston for an HIV test. At that time, Harvard did not offer anonymous HIV testing, so students looking for anonymity while staying in control of their health were sent packing. It’s rare that health care goes backward, but University Health Services’s recent decision to end anonymous testing (instituted in 1996) is one of those times. Effective August 1, only confidential testing will be provided by UHS, meaning...
...payroll, while Houses have kept their staff size steady over the same time period. Central administrators thus need to look inward for cuts. The administration’s main role should be to support the faculty and students here in pursuing their educational and developmental goals. The administration should find savings at its own expense before endangering areas that have a direct and serious effect on the lives of students—like academics and House life. Specifically, given its recent rapid growth, the administration must strongly consider salary cuts and firings as a cost-saving and efficiency measure...