Ovitz: Eisner Blocked Plans for Disney
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Michael Ovitz, Walt Disney Co.'s former president, testified Tuesday that he was undercut a number of times by Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner as he tried to expand the entertainment giant's business.
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Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, played down his decades-long relationship with the former Disney president Michael S. Ovitz
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Former Walt Disney Co.  President Michael Ovitz testified on Tuesday that other company  executives resented him from the start, admitted he knew little  about running a public company and breezily dropped celebrity  names ranging from Janet Jackson to Dustin Hoffman.
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner on Tuesday described a year in which his main job was to control Michael Ovitz, the company's   president who aggravated other staff, became depressed and finally refused to leave the company.
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Former Walt Disney (DIS) president Michael Ovitz said his 1996 ouster from the company &quot;tainted&quot; him, a situation he hopes to repair with
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Walt Disney Co. should have fired Michael Ovitz rather than paying him &#36;140 million in severance, a legal expert testified on Thursday in support of shareholders suing the Disney board.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co. Chief  Executive Michael Eisner on Tuesday described a year in which  his main job was to control Michael Ovitz, the company's    president who aggravated other staff, became depressed and  finally refused to leave the company.
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In testimony on Friday, Michael S. Ovitz, the former president of the Walt Disney Company, described an aborted attempt to join the Sony Corporation and was questioned
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Michael Eisner of Walt Disney has become the sphinx of the media world, with shareholders and foes trying to decipher his comments regarding whether he&#39;ll try reclaim the chairman&#39;s
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Michael Ovitz said he fought  and begged to stay on at Walt Disney Co. until his good friend  and boss Michael Eisner pushed him out, the former Disney  president, now at the center of a shareholder lawsuit,  testified on Wednesday.
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GEORGETOWN, United States : Walt Disney chief Michael Eisner portrayed his friend Michael Ovitz -- fired after 15 months as company president with a 140 million dollar severance package -- as an executive unable to adapt to Disney&#39;s corporate culture.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co. should have  fired Michael Ovitz rather than paying him $140 million in  severance, a legal expert testified on Thursday in support of  shareholders suing the Disney board.
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GEORGETOWN, Del., Oct. 28 -- Plaintiffs in a shareholder lawsuit over former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz's $140 million severance package attempted Thursday to portray Ovitz as a dishonest bumbler who botched the hiring of a major television executive and pushed the release of a movie that angered the Chinese government, damaging Disney's business prospects in the country.
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Michael Ovitz said on Tuesday that Walt Disney Co. would have made a string of dazzling deals and shrewd strategic moves during his brief tenure as the company&#39;s president
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LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner, who successfully fought off a shareholder attempt to oust him, unexpectedly offered his resignation from the entertainment company he's led for two decades - but he will go in his own time...
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Walt Disney Co. CEO Michael Eisner tried to turn back years of criticism Monday by insisting that he was neither rash nor selfish in hiring friend Michael Ovitz as president in October 1995.
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Michael D. Eisner, Disney's chief, said that he did not plan to remain on the board or become chairman when he retires in two years.