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...requests, and Superday invitations forces the typical applicant to cast as broad a net as possible when applying. The challenge employers then face is selecting among those genuinely interested in the position and those merely hedging their bets through precautionary recruiting. In the language of George Akerlof, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who described the used-car market as having buyers and sellers with different amounts of information about the transaction to be made, the recruiting market is ridden with “adverse selection.” In the Harvard case, it is not hidden car qualities, but rather...
...guitar, if you’re a rock fan,” he says. “That’s not measured in salary.” He was starstruck too when he first met E.O. Wilson, a giant in the field of biology. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard professor had attended a lecture Sebastián gave and dropped by to discuss a paper he thought would interest the first-year student. They talked and Wilson told Sebastián to come to him if ever he needed help...
...other words, we're going to need Michael Beard, a rotund, balding, 50-ish English physicist coasting on a Nobel Prize he won two decades ago. As Solar begins, Beard is in the waning days of his fifth marriage, hanging on as the chief of a government center on renewable energy, where climate change takes up less space in his mind than adultery. "Beard was not wholly skeptical about climate change," McEwan writes. "But he himself had other things to think about." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...nicked their notes. But where Solar really succeeds - beyond the dark comedy, too long missing in McEwan's gentler recent work - is the author's ability to reveal the nature of the climate conundrum in the very human life of his protagonist. Beard is a Nobel Prize - winning mess, an obese man who can't stop eating, a serial adulterer who takes up with a lusty New Mexico waitress named Darlene while keeping a family back in London. Even his clean-tech business plan is touched by corruption at its heart. The question in Solar is whether Beard's scientific...
...there’s the term ‘coopertition,’” said Farber. “Everyone helps each other but in the end there’s still a competition to go to.” She hesitated when asked about the prize. “Bragging rights? It’s not so much about winning as it is about learning. The whole goal of the organization is to promote STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math...