Word: krafts
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...Berkshire-owned companies (Borsheim's Fine Jewelry, Nebraska Furniture Mart); ate where Buffett likes to eat (Gorat's Steak House); tried to beat him at bridge (they didn't); and spent five hours grilling him and his closest confidant, vice chairman Charlie Munger, on everything from owning 8% of Kraft Foods to how the price of tungsten will affect the Israeli toolmaker Berkshire invested in two years...
Ideo, the Palo Alto, Calif., design firm best known for creating the Palm V digital organizer, began its Transformation by Design department, one of the first in the country, under Peter Coughlan in 2002. Ron Volpe, customer vice president for supply chain at Kraft, turned to Ideo that year to help improve the relationship between Kraft and Safeway. Basic communication was not smooth, and there were some delays in getting products to market. Ideo gathered more than 80 employees from both firms, encouraging each side of the supply chain to weigh in. The changes that Ideo devised--new promotional displays...
...trip to the big city for the Harvard women’s lacrosse team to get a big win. Riding on junior Kaitlin Martin’s five-point effort, the Crimson (8-6, 2-4 Ivy) defeated Columbia (3-10, 0-7 Ivy), 12-8, Saturday at Robert Kraft Field. The win snapped a five-game losing streak for Harvard. “It was a good one because we just needed a win,” senior captain Lauren Bobzin said. “It was a good effort.” Martin tallied three goals, including...
...year run of Celine Dion's A New Day. That elephantine extravaganza, staged by ex-Cirque du Soleil director Franco Dragone, submerged the singer in gigantic sets and CGI effusions: rolling clouds, meteor showers, shooting stars. Midler jokes that she has come to "the only city that could teach Kraft about cheese" because of "the sh-tload of money they're payin' me." There's plenty of money lavished on the production too: $10 million (as she mentions three or four times during the evening), and it boasts some luscious videographic effects. Oh, and Midler does make an appearance wreathed...
...always enjoy the day I get to show the students around.” says Robert M. Kraft ’76, president of Fox Music and Harvardwood adviser. “This year they came to watch me orchestrate “Horton Hears a Who!” and...see a fabulous scoring on a 20th Century...