As everybody knows, Globe has already purchased a property in the central business district.
You see, Cora de la Paz made it clear from the start that she didnt want the kind of ethical problem arising from any perceived closeness to her former employer.
As everybody knows, Jollibees experience in beating McDonalds in the burger and fries business (read: how to beat multinationals at their own game) is a Harvard case study.
To date, Mr. Tan Caktiongs tight schedule has not placed him near enough to Cambridge, Massachusetts (read: Jollibees American outlets are basically in the West Coast).
Heres how it works. Corporations ask consumers to pay a little more for their products or service since a portion of the price paid will be given to Operation Smile, an international non-profit organization that surgically corrects cleft palates of children from poor families.
Right now, the cost of cosmetic surgery per Operation Smile patient is about P8,000. Commercially, that same surgical procedure would cost at least three times the amount.
In the Philippines, Operation Smile is chaired by United Coconut Planters Bank president and chief executive officer Jose Querubin, who has set aside personal time for the project (read: Jojo Querubin doesnt send an assistant to attend the meetings). It was in fact, Jojo Querubin who asked Ms. Buenaventura, the wife of fellow ex-Citibank and now Bank of the Philippine Islands senior vice-president Gil Buenaventura, to join the project full-time.
More than her own working experience before she married, Ms. Buenaventura brings to her new job an emotional commitment to giving children the self-confidence they need by taking away a facial deformity. After all, she has six children of her own, the youngest of whom is still in grade school.