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Such flexibility is critical for running a business in China or India, and more companies are beginning to screen expat candidates to make sure they've got it. "Companies used to think that whoever was successful here would be successful anywhere else, and so they'd send that guy," says Ramakrishnan of CTPartners, which is based in New York City. "That is no longer the case." Through a battery of tests, including psychological profiling and hypothetical scenarios, the firm tries to identify ideal candidates by looking for clear demonstrations of flexibility: interest in other cultures, knowledge of at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Expatriates | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...candy corn to shame, Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe doesn’t seem like a traditional hangout for home-grown Red Sox fans. For savvy local Sox fans, however, that’s exactly what it is. Twenty-odd square patrons huddled around the 42-inch flat screen in Cardullo’s front window last Tuesday for the first game of the postseason. The crowd included several “regulars”—two Cambridge policemen, an MIT English professor, the Au Bon Pain chess champ, and a smattering of residents and visitors enjoying...

Author: By Kirsten E. M. Slungaard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Park Your Chair in Harvard Square | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

Dining halls are now serving up nutrition information on a high-tech array of glowing flat-screen monitors that cost them thousands of dollars...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Televisions Light Up Dining Experience | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...Skype video call showing Braff on a trampoline outside the ’Poon Castle soon appeared on a Brattle screen...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Braff Draws Laughs, Despite ’Poon | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...crowd sat mostly silent as Poonsters bandied questions about backflips and drug use, interrupting only to hurl sporadic boos at the screen...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Braff Draws Laughs, Despite ’Poon | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

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