Word: liz
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...Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu...
Thielen, 61, is both diplomatic and entrepreneurial (he also owns his own sausage factory), and he moved quickly to calm the situation, smoothing relations with Mohn and his wife Liz and reversing many of Middelhoff's most controversial moves. He abolished the post of chief operating officer and returned to the highly 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...