China's movie industry

Move over, Hollywood. China's movie industry, or 'Chollywood, ' is getting so influential it can now save another country from recession.

The country in question, Thailand, has seen its trade balance disintegrate to a deficit of 6% of gross domestic product from a surplus of the same over the past two years. The only reason this hasn't sent the currency plummeting, and forced a recession, is that tourist inflows are acting as an offset, says Jonathan Anderson of the Emerging Advisors Group.

Net travel revenue doubled to 9% of Thai GDP today from five years ago--and like in so much else, the new demand comes from China. Visitors from the mainland jumped 93% year-over-year between January and April.

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For the recent tourists, Thailand can especially thank the 2012 box-office-hit 'Lost in Thailand.' Consider that comedy China's version of 'The Hangover II, ' except the movie makes Thailand seem charming, not seedy. The Thai prime minister was so grateful she even invited the movie's director for a recent meeting.

China isn't anywhere near yet to exerting the global cultural influence wielded by Hollywood. Still, there's a lot to be said for Chollywood's hard-currency clout.

EQ

Schools are trying to choose from a crowded pool of well-qualified applicants and get a sense of the human being behind the application by adding personality tests and scored, standardized in-person interviews to the traditional battery of essays, transcripts and recommendations. Now, prospective M.B.A. students need to shine by showing emotional traits like empathy, motivation, resilience and dozens of others.

Measuring EQ or emotional intelligence quotient is the latest attempt by business schools to identify future stars. Since students typically start their job hunts almost as soon as they arrive on campus, the schools have little time to fix any faults. If you like Diablo 3, you can know about it in the website of farmer100. You want to buy Diablo 3 account, and you can go to the farmer100. In the website, you must see the more information that you would like to gain, such as the guide and the advantages of diablo 3 account.

'Companies select for top talent with assessments like this, ' says Andrew Sama, senior associate director of M.B.A. admissions at University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. 'If we are selecting for future business leaders, why shouldn't we be [using] similar tools?'

Since the fall of 2010, Mendoza applicants have been required to complete a 206-item online questionnaire called the Personal Characteristics Inventory. It screens them for traits the school has found in its most successful students and graduates, such as teamwork and leadership abilities.

It is difficult to determine the 'right' answers. For example, one item asks, 'What are your sources for new ideas?' The multiple-choice answers include 'reading, ' 'my own thoughts, ' 'subject-matter experts, ' 'family and friends' and 'people I work with.' Star students tend to provide the same responses, Mendoza says.