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...when Lewis was fired, his departure was explained under the dubious pretense of “restructuring.” In fact, the relevant issue at the time—combining the positions of Dean of the College and Dean of Undergraduate Education—had been initially proposed by Lewis years earlier. Details of how the new über-dean of the College would operate were scarce, and we worried that haphazardly combining the immense responsibilities of two large and complicated bureaucracies under one individual might be fundamentally flawed. When then Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross...
...billion. At the end of my tenure as Bertelsmann's CEO, its debt was $334 million, the lowest of all big media corporations that I know of. Companies like Time Warner, Disney and Vivendi Universal are paying this as annual interest. TIME implied that I left "a slew of dubious new assets." The truth is that all the acquisitions under my leadership delivered the originally budgeted returns and Bertelsmann faced no write-off. You also wrote that Bertelsmann owner Reinhard Mohn "was so upset by Middelhoff's tenure." Our disagreement was primarily over my desire to make Bertelsmann a publicly...
...tenure as Bertelsmann's CEO, its debt was €334 million, the lowest debt of all big media corporations that I know of. Companies like Time Warner, Disney or Vivendi Universal are paying this as annual interest. TIME implies that I left "a slew of dubious new assets." The truth is that all the acquisitions under my leadership delivered the originally budgeted returns and Bertelsmann faced no write-off. You also write that Bertelsmann owner Reinhard Mohn "was so upset by Middelhoff's tenure." Our disagreement was primarily over my desire to make Bertelsmann a publicly held company, not about...
...further disheartened to learn that their favorite members of the Faculty will be teaching term-time courses even less. Sure, students will have the opportunity to apply for a seat in J-Term seminars four times more selective than the most popular of freshman seminars, but this is a dubious fair trade for the student body. Before Harvard loosens up term-time teaching requirements for the sake of making J-Term viable, we vehemently urge adequate consideration of its negative impact on the majority of undergraduates...
Gunter Thielen didn't expect to play peacemaker when he took over as chief executive of Germany's Bertelsmann in August 2002. The company was laden with $3.5 billion in debt and a slew of dubious new assets, including the controversial online file-sharing site Napster and the now defunct Rosie magazine in the U.S. Still, Thielen's biggest challenge was an internal one: Thomas Middelhoff, the flamboyant CEO Thielen replaced, left behind a simmering crisis between the $22 billion firm and its key owners, the Mohn family. Reinhard Mohn, the 82-year-old patriarch, was so upset by Middelhoff...