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...substitutes for real merit. Sometimes the artificial substitute is unavoidable. When many thousands of top students are applying for a few hundred places at a top school like M.I.T., admissions officers can't plumb the depths of each applicant's soul. So they use test scores. Employers looking to hire young people for their first full-time job can't stop to gather and judge all the information they might want in deciding who is likely to be a disciplined and skillful employee. So they take a shortcut and go for college graduates. Buffett doesn't need to require...
Kleinfeld and Hershman met in early December at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, where the consultant sized up the Siemens boss. At one point during dinner, Hershman leaned forward and said, "Don't hire me if you've got a problem, because I'm going to find it, and if I feel misled or hindered, I will leave, and that won't be good for your company." Stirring the ice in his Diet Coke, Kleinfeld coolly replied, "I have nothing to hide...
...Asian Women’s Collective. In total, SAA and its affiliate groups have about 320 members, Maheshwari said. SAA’s new leaders said they also plan to continue the group’s attempts to strengthen South Asian studies at Harvard by convincing the University to hire more professors with expertise in the field. Shah said she was happy with the SAA membership’s decision to choose Dandiya and Maheshwari as the group’s next leaders. “Over the years, I have gotten the chance to work with them and watch...
...help increase the flow of information, Walser spent nine months researching each Cambridge school. In 1997, she published her findings in a 192-page book called “The Parents’ Guide to Cambridge Schools.” She also pushed the schools committee to hire a public information officer to develop a comprehensive collection of school Web sites, just a click away from curious parents’ computers...
...person who gets to know what your genes are. Health insurance and life insurance companies might like to see your sequence before they offer you insurance, and they might adjust their prices based on heretofore hidden genetic minefields. Some employers might ask the same—who wants to hire a long-term employee with a genetic predisposition to an early-onset disease? And careful snoopers will likely be able to decode the DNA of anyone they can bring within spitting distance. “Just by sitting there, you shed dandruff and all kinds of stuff everywhere...