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...Luca Candelori ’08 was in Loker watching the game with some friends...
...family, it seemed like a blatant power grab, and when its members replied, "No, grazie," he quit in a huff. The top job went instead to Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the head of Ferrari and a family intimate for three decades. Two young Agnelli cousins were elevated too. John Elkann, 28, was appointed Fiat deputy chairman, and his cousin Andrea Agnelli, also 28, joined the board. Another long-standing Agnelli manager was quickly named CEO. "The family moved very fast," says a person close to the Agnellis. "Morchio was a bit Napoleonic. The new men are more into team building...
...company that is the core of the Agnelli family fortune demanded to be given Umberto's title of chairman as well. To the family, it seemed like a blatant power grab, and when its members replied, "No, grazie," he quit in a huff. The top job went instead to Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the head of Ferrari and a family intimate for three decades. Two young Agnelli cousins were elevated too. John Elkann, 28, was appointed Fiat deputy chairman, and his cousin Andrea Agnelli, also 28, joined the board. Another long-standing Agnelli manager was quickly named CEO. "The family...
Another way of looking at B players is that they're people who have a life outside the office. Some Silicon Valley companies are latching onto the idea that B players are valuable. Guerrino De Luca, CEO of Logitech, says, "We have a lot of B's," whom he describes as employees who "don't emphasize self-promotion and don't want to be heroes and work 18 hours a day." Logitech is best known for producing stylish computer mice and an array of other computer products and tech services. De Luca, a native of Rome, tries to convey...
...religious statues from churches in southern Italy, demanding that the hierarchy give $53,000 to the poor. The ransom was never paid, the statues never returned. Given that taste for direct action, it's a wonder the Blissett Project's four founders - Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca di Meo - had the patience to pen a doorstopper like Q. The novel is a sweeping saga of the 16th century religious wars touched off by the Reformation. Fast-paced, richly detailed and teeming with hundreds of characters, it throbs with violence, heroism, betrayal and sex. The main character...