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Into a World Without Marchionette.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... ndispensable-leader
Note:
(a)
(i) The print says about the authorship: "Adapted from Sergio Marchionne by Tommaso Ebhardt, published in Italian by Sperling & Kupfer."
The europe.autonews.com says the book is written by "Bloomberg's longtime Fiat beat reporter, Tommaso Ebhardt." Year of publication is 2019; month and day are unknown (because Italian Webs pages do not show them; only year (anno).)
(ii) Print and the online version are identical.
(iii) summary underneath the title in print: A new book details the 2018 crisis when Fiat Chrysler lost its "indispensable" chief executive
(b) Sergio Marchionne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Marchionne
(1952- July 25, 2018 (age 66 [en.wikipedia.org: "aged 66" which is British English] ) )
One should not confuse this last name with marionette
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionette.
The French form of Mary is Marie, whose diminutive is Marion.
(c) "On the morning of July 20, 2018, a warm Friday, a Fiat Chrysler corporate jet took off from Turin, Italy, with Chairman John Elkann on board. For the second time in a week, Elkann, a scion of Fiat's founding Agnelli family, was crossing the Alps, headed for the University Hospital Zurich * * * Elkann had started evaluating options on the evening of his first visit [three days earlier] to the Zurich hospital, as he headed to the airport after a walk by the lake [Lake Zurich] with Marchionne's partner, Manuela Battezzato [Italian; she was 47 when died in 2019 at 66; they had been together for 6 years, after they met while she worked for FCA communications (and still works there)]."
(i) Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich. undated
https://www.med.uzh.ch/en/Medizi ... comingStudents.html
("The faculty of medicine at the University of Zurich is the largest of the five medical faculties in Switzerland. It hosts 1400 students (about 220 students in each of the six years) plus 700 doctoral [PhD] students. * * * The language of all lectures and courses in the undergraduate curriculum is German. The primary teaching hospital is the University Hospital Zurich which concentrates 34 Clinics and 23 Institutes. It comprises all fields of modern medicine and treats more than 32'000 inpatients and 150'000 ambulatory patients per year. * * * The University of Zurich was founded in 1833, though its origins stretch back as far as 1525 and the days of protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli. * * * With 26'000 students and 1,900 graduates every year, Zurich is also Switzerland's largest university. * * * The City of Zurich (460'000 inhabitants, with agglomerations almost one million [Swiss population: 8.3m in 2019, of whom 75% are citizens and 25%, foreign nationals]) is the largest city of Switzerland [as well as capital of Canton of Zurich. The English noun canton descends from Middle French of the same spelling]. While Berne is the political capital of the country, Zurich is the financial and economic centre. In addition a broad offer of theatres, concerts, museums, art-galleries, libraries and bookshops makes Zurich a culturally attractive city. Thanks to its central and beautiful location at the Zurich lakeside, Zurich is a very attractive but as well relatively expensive place")
(ii)
(A) University Hospital Zurich
http://www.en.usz.ch/Pages/default.aspx
("The University Hospital Zurich is open to everyone every day and provides [both] primary health care and cutting-edge medicine in a central location in Zurich")
German name for University Hospital Zurich is Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ).
German-English dictionary:
* Universität (noun feminine): "university"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Universität
* Spital (noun neuter): "(dated outside Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol [a province in northern Italy], southern Germany) hospital"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Spital
^ Outside those regions, Modern German for hospital is noun neuter Krankenhaus (from noun masculine Kranker patient + noun neuter Haus house). Also in Modern German, the adjective krank means sick, ill.
^ The English noun hospital is from Middle English of the same spelling, going back to Latin noun masculine hospes guest, host.
* Winter (noun masculine): "winter" (The English noun winter is from Old English -- language of Anglo-Saxons -- of the same spelling, so are suffix -er and noun street.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Winter
* Winterthur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterthur
(section 1 History: in 1798 Napoleonic troops liberated the town, but a year later in Battle of Winterthur was defeated)
^ The German and English spelling of this city is identical.
* For the "er" in "Winterthurer, see -er (masculine; suffix): "forms nouns indicating an inhabitant of a place, or a person originating from a place" (Remember Berliner in JFK's 1963 speech?)
-erhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-er
* Strasse: "Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of [noun feminine] Straße [street]"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Strasse
(B) Organization – University Hospital Zurich
http://www.en.usz.ch/about-us/organization/Pages/default.aspx
("The Hospital Advisory Board (the chief management body), Hospital Executive Board (operative decision-making body) and eight departmental and trans-sectoral directorates are jointly responsible for the University Hospital Zurich.
The University Hospital Zurich (UHZ) is a cantonal public agency with its own legal personality and registered office in Zurich and exists according to the Act on the University Hospital Zurich dated 19 September 2005")
University of Zurich is a cantonal university -- the same as universities of Bern and eight others (in other words, there are 10 cantonal universities in Switzerland, plus two federal universities of applied science (to train tech apprentices, one of the two is ETH Zurich. See (iii)(B) below) ).
(iii)
(A) History of the University of Zurich. University of Zurich, undated.
https://www.uzh.ch/en/about/portrait/history.html
Quote:
"2015 * * * On 14 September 2015, the Parliament of the Canton of Zurich approved an amendment to the University Act with a 168 to 0 vote. The University now has greater decision-making powers regarding real estate management and can act independently in university-related building projects.
"1833
'Universitas Turicensis' founded. The Canton of Zurich combined its existing colleges of theology, jurisprudence, and medicine into the 'Universitas Turicensis' and supplemented these three areas of study with a faculty of arts. It was the first university in Europe to be founded by a democratic state rather than by a monarchy or the Church.
161 students, 55 instructors. In the first year, 16 theology students, 26 law students, 98 medicine students, and 21 arts students enrolled. The course catalogue was published in German and Latin. * * * "
* Latin-English dictionary:
• universitas (noun feminine): "university"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/universitas
• Turicensis (adj; from [Latin place name] Turicum Zurich)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turicensis
^ Turicum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turicum
(section 1 Name)
(B) Anthony Soon Chye TEO [张] (ed), Univer-Cities; Strategic dilemmas of medical origins and selected modalities: water, quantum leap & new models. vol 3. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co (2018), at pages 77-78
https://books.google.com/books?i ... mp;lpg=PA78&dq="1204"+University+Hospital+Zurich&source=bl&ots=JPcH_NNpHe&sig=ACfU3U2RslvNBaNUd7DhwszeAJfPqOSxsQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijtKOAtofiAhVokeAKHTl1BZ04ChDoATAFegQICRAB#v=onepage&q="1204"%20University%20Hospital%20Zurich&f=false
("In the central area of Zurich the major higher educational institutions, the ETH and UZH, are located. Also, one of the largest Swiss hospital, the University Hospital is situated in the very same area, with its oldest records dating back to 1204. The University of Zurich -- Universitas Turicensis -- that is the major institution discussed gere, was founded in 1833, yet built upon educational institutions dating back to 1525. It is full university with a total of seven faculties and some25,000 students. The UZH is the very first European university established through a democratic government, not by the church or a head of state. Consequently it runs under constant public control, especially in terms of budget and legal framework. * * * The UZH defines itself as leading university, both in research and teaching: for example, twelve Nobel prizes have been awarded to members of the UZH. * * * Medical Sciences at the UZH includes the Medical Faculty, the only Swiss Veterinary Faculty (a joint faculty of the University of Zurich and Berne [variant spelling of Bern]) and tracks such as biomedicine in the Science Faculty. The Medical Faculty was one of the four founding faculties (besides Theology, Law and Philosophy). The Medical Faculty UZH is the largest Swiss faculty (currently a total of ~2,000 students). It counts for roughly a third of the UZH budget with an annual total of ca. 300 million CHF [which stands for Swiss Franc, where CH is country code for that nation. See en.wikipedia.org for .ch]. It includes dentistry and chiropractic medicine. A dedicated MD-PhD programme exists, and also a strong interaction with the Life Sciences [sic; should be Science] Zurich Graduate School")
About LSZGS. ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, undated
https://www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en/about-LSZGS.html
("The Life Science Zurich Graduate School (LSZGS) consists of 17 highly competitive PhD programs and one MD/PhD program, all of them run jointly by the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich")
In the left margin of this Web page was a table, including Facts: "All our PhD students receive an employment contract, including accident & unemployment insurances. The offered salary is generous compared to international standards and allows a comfortable life in Zurich.
Everything in LSZGS is conducted in English.
I do not know why a PhD student in LSZGS will stay in either university, not both -- and received degree from that one, bot both. Oddly, LSZGS on University of Zurich has a corresponding address at Winterthurerstr. 190, Zurich -- the same as Science Faculty, University of Zurich. Winterthurerstrasse 190, where 190 is the street number, and street name is analyzed in German dictionary in (c)(ii)(A).
"In German culture the main part of an address is always the street name and house number, for example, Blumenstraße 5 (lit. Flower Street 5).": from the Web.
ETH Zurich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich
(ETH is German acronym)
(d) "Marchionne ruled Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [FCA] NV—and the Agnellis' other car and truck companies, [ii] Ferrari SpA and [iii] CNH Industrial NV—with the help of his phones. * * * In Zurich on July 20, Elkann knew he had to make that crucial decision without Marchionne at his side. Flying back to Turin—where Fiat was founded in 1899—he summoned top managers, executives, and members of the boards of Fiat, Ferrari, and CNH to assemble in the city the next day. Before they convened, he had to come up with candidates for them to consider. For Fiat, at least, that process had been under way for months. Potential candidates included Europe chief Alfredo Altavilla, Jeep boss Mike Manley, and Chief Financial Officer Richard Palmer. Elkann whittled the list down to two to discuss with the board: Palmer and Manley. As the emergency meeting was coming together, Palmer took himself out of the race while Manley confirmed he wanted the job. So Elkann proposed Manley * * * Altavilla, Marchionne's closest aide for over a decade, told the chairman he was going to resign. * * * Elkann then chose Marchionne's successor as chairman at CNH, naming Suzanne Heywood, managing director of Exor NV, the Agnelli family's holding company, for the post."
(i) Fiat Automobiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Automobiles
In 1899 Giovanni Agnelli in Turin co-founded FIAT, where A stands for fabbrica (from Latin noun feminine fabrica workshop, from verb fabricāre) is Italian noun feminine for factory.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fabbrica
(ii) John Elkann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elkann
The first child of Alain Elkann and Margherita Agnelli )marriage 1975-1981), he is the fifth generation -- or grandson of grandson -- of Giovanni Agnelli.
(iii) Ferrari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari
(Enzo Ferrari formed in 1939 in City of Modena, capital of Province of Modena -- Ferrari's present headquarters is in Maranello -- "18 km from Modena"; en.wikipedial.org; "Fiat S.p.A. acquired 50% of Ferrari in 1969 and expanded its stake to 90% in 1988. In October 2014 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCA) announced its intentions to separate Ferrari S.p.A. from FCA; as of the announcement FCA owned 90% of Ferrari")
Enzo was his birth name, but could be "the short form for Lorenzo, Vincenzo." en.wikipedia.oef for Enzo.
(iv) "Alfredo Altavilla has been Vice Chairman at Recordati Industria Chimica e Farmaceutica S.p.A. [a pharmaceutical company] since 2019." Bloomberg' executive profile.
(v) CNH Industrial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNH_Industrial
("One of the top players worldwide in the agricultural and construction equipment sectors, CNH Global was created in 1999 through the merger of New Holland and Case Corporation" -- NH and C respectively)
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