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...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 one other language, varied careers...
...much so that he or she finds it hard to go back to headquarters. "I get a lot of résumés from executives just as they're being called back from an assignment," says Benjamin Zhai, head of China recruiting for Egon Zender International, a global executive-placement firm. He advises client companies to design specific new challenges for the returning expat, "or you will lose his motivation...
...other pioneers are already there. Orascom, an Egyptian conglomerate, recently signed a $115 million deal to buy a stake in a North Korean cement company. And later this month, a British firm will begin offering subscriptions for the first ever D.P.R.K.-focused investment fund. Colin McAskill, director of the Chosun Development & Investment Fund, says it will concentrate on the mining industry. "You have to think off the wall in North Korea, because nothing conventional has ever worked there," he says...
Blackwater isn't the only company getting paid to protect American personnel in Iraq. The security guards who shot two women to death in Baghdad on Oct. 9 were working for an Australian-owned firm that was hired by U.S.-based contractor RTI International. Talk about outsourcing: a significant percentage of U.S. security guards in Iraq are neither Americans nor Iraqis. Here's a look at how many of these guns for hire can be labeled as mercenaries for fighting under a foreign flag. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...their part, Stamler, who consults for a company developing NO-based therapies, and McMahon, whose work was funded in part by another such firm, are thinking about using transfusions of NO-fortified donor blood to treat such ills as heart disease, stroke and diabetes. "We want to open up blood vessels, and blood knows how to do that," he says. Perhaps a nitric oxide boost would help it do its job even better...