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By Tommaso Ebhardt

July 22, 2018 at 5:26 PM UTC

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July 25, 2018 at 11:53 AM UTC

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I was in a remote village in Italy’s Dolomite mountains on Jan. 1, 2014, when Sergio Marchionne wrecked my vacation yet again.

The snow was falling outside our chalet window and I had just promised my four-year-old daughter that I was going to take her to the slopes the following morning.