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...even in your latte. Six years ago, Starbucks moved from manual to semiautomatic espresso machines. The quality was more consistent, but the real reason for the switch was that an employee needed 24 fewer seconds to draw an espresso--a double shot of productivity. "People struggled with it," says Silvia Peterson, director of store operations engineering. The new machine was at odds with the Starbuckian notion of a "handcrafted" beverage. An ice dispenser that would have eliminated time spent scooping was rejected as a step too far. "It was big and QSR-like," says Peterson--QSR being an abbreviation...
...similar dilemma when he took over the Roman-based brand in 2004. With a mandate from LVMH boss Bernard Arnault to turn the company around, Burke had to find a way to keep designer Karl Lagerfeld in the fold and also massage a better relationship between the designer and Silvia Venturini Fendi, the talent behind Fendi's handbag business. That required yet another kind of nuclear power plant, one that Burke promptly set about creating in the form of Fendi's historic palazzo in the center of Rome, which he renovated in order to relocate scattered design studios and management...
...expression as the cagey, egotistical Jen in “The Lifeboat is Sinking.” Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07 is also to be praised for her acting range, playing both the titular role in a recitation of the poem “Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” as an utterly psychotic little girl, and the role of old, bitter, jaded Nellie in “No Soliciting.” Possibly the darkest and most disturbing scene was “The Best Daddy,” where...
...Silvia Scandar ’05 writes in an e-mail that she wishes the yearbook had encouraged a wider cross-section of students to submit photos...
...have a hermetically sealed Board,” writes Silvia in an e-mail. “The Board names its own successors. The alumni have no vote. There are no faculty or student representatives on the Board. This absence of accountability and the failure to serve the University well have undercut the credibility of the Board among students and faculty...