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...which is projected to lose $1.2 billion in the U.S. this year because of a falling dollar and a lack of exciting new models, badly needs a boost. For the outspoken Bernhard, 44, cutting costs won't be easy. VW last month agreed to guarantee jobs for 103,000 German employees. But Bernhard is not afraid to make a splash. Executives in Detroit still talk about his dramatic entrance at an auto show last year riding a Tomahawk, a one-of-a-kind four-wheeled motorcycle. Now all eyes are on his moves at VW, where he will officially join...
...decentralized structure that had long been a Bertelsmann tradition, cutting 1 in 6 jobs at corporate headquarters. "The businesses are all so different and require such different management skills that one person can't run them all," Thielen says. To shore up profitability, he has sold the firm's German specialist magazine group BertelsmannSpringer for $1.35 billion and merged its troubled music division with Sony's. Debt has dropped to below $700 million, and Thielen says the firm is again on an expansion course. Don't expect Middelhoff-style grandiose plans, however: probable targets for acquisition are small to midsize...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum presents an exhibition of sculpture by artists who were ambivalent toward the media. “Dependent Objects” presents the works of German artists beginning in the 1960’s including works by Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Charlotte Posenenske and Gerhard Richter. Through Jan 2. The Busch-Reisinger at the Fogg Museum...
...full display here, stripped of facile notions of patriotism and honor. Sides and nations seem immaterial: the French officers often act against their own troops, even shooting one of their own men, and, as shown in Jodie Foster’s brilliant portrayal of a German woman who aids Mathilde in her search, everyone seems to resent the idea of battle far more than they do their supposed enemy...
...Princeton, Abbate taught interdisciplinary courses, spanning several fields including German, European Cultural Studies and Media and Modernity...