Word: icing
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...operational efficiency with a relatively complex business structure. This is what I think real management is all about. The other thing is much too easy." Rather than narrow its focus, he believes that a well-managed and flexibly organized consumer-goods company can sell dog food and ice cream--as well as coffee, water and candy--and gain advantages in marketing, purchasing and distribution over more specialized firms...
Brabeck didn't set out to be the CEO of Nestle when he began selling ice cream in his native Austria 35 years ago. He says he didn't even know that the company he worked for, Findus, was owned by Nestle at the time. "His ambition was to experience Latin America, to have an adventure there," says Gottfried Truppe, his college roommate. Why the fascination with Latin America? "The wide-open spaces and high mountains," Brabeck says. It was also far from home--and far from the mountaineering tragedy he had just lived through...
...friends to climb Tirich Mir, the highest peak in the Hindu Kush. They drove through Turkey and Afghanistan in a secondhand van and slept in tents their mothers had sewn. The expedition turned into a disaster. In bad weather two of the team, including Thomassen, fell off an ice wall to their deaths. Brabeck survived because he had returned to base camp the day before the tragedy: there had been only enough food for two, and he lost the poker game that had decided which of the three would turn back. The experience changed his life and continues to influence...
...airline spends about $20 per passenger for food and beverages in economy, $40 in business class and $50 in first class. Industry experts estimate that this is at least 10% higher than industry averages. Dom Perignon flows in first, Piper Heidsieck in business; the ice creams in economy are Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry...
...scheduling snafu could have very real implications for the team. Even in a normal year, when half the Harvard student body isn’t AWOL, Cornell fans regularly outnumber and outcheer the Harvard section when the two teams meet in Cambridge. This year, any hope of home ice advantage, if it ever truly existed, will go out the window, as the “home” crowd will be more hostile than what you’ll find at most road contests...