A Young Tracy Britt Faces Challenges At Pampered Chef

It was a cold call to Warren Buffett that led to Harvard Business School grad Tracy Britt Cool being named CEO of Pampered Chef, a Buffett holding, on Monday.

Cool will replace Pampered Chef founder Doris Christopher, a home economics teacher who started the company selling kitchen utensils from her basement in 1980.

Pampered Chef CEO Tracy Britt Cool's letter to Warrne Buffett

Both Cool, now 30, and Christopher share the same entrepreneurial spirit.  When she was a young girl growing up on a Manhattan, KS, farm, Cool operated a roadside farm stand, hiring...