Disney CEO, Chair Jobs Separated
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Walt Disney Co.'s  board of directors on Thursday said it has made permanent the policy to separate the roles of chief executive and chairman.
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Blogging software maker Six Apart  said on Friday Chairman and Chief Executive Barak Berkowitz was  stepping aside and would be replaced by Chris Alden, who had  run the company&#39;s professional software unit.
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Chief executives have been an embattled group lately. Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Ford (F) and Viacom (VIA, VIA.B) each replaced their top executives in recent days.
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Michael Eisner, chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Co., will leave the company in 2006, The Associated Press is reporting.
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Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive who helped turn the Walt Disney Co. into the world&#39;s second-largest media conglomerate but has come under fire recently for its financial slump, announced plans yesterday to retire in two years.
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GEORGETOWN, Del., Nov. 16 -- In January 1996, Walt Disney Co. executives took a field trip to the company's theme park in Orlando. In keeping with tradition, the Disney brass, including chief executive Michael D. Eisner, rode around the park together in buses.
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Michael Eisner indicated that he wants to stay on as chairman of the Walt Disney Company after he steps down as chief executive in September 2006.
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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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GEORGETOWN, Delaware It was at his mother&#39;s funeral in the summer of 1996 that Michael Eisner, the chief executive of Walt Disney, knew he had to dismiss the president he had hired just 10 months earlier.
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GEORGETOWN, United States : Controversial Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner has been tough and unflappable defending himself this week against shareholder charges that he wasted 140 million dollars by taking on Michael Ovitz as president in 1995.
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Description: Michael Eisner, the embattled head of the Walt Disney Co., is planning to step down as CEO when his contract expires in the year 2006.
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The longtime relationship between Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner and ex-Disney President Michael Ovitz underwent a &quot;slow deterioration&quot; beginning in early 1996 that eventually lead to Ovitz&#39;s
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The long-running saga of succession at the Walt Disney Company has been only marginally advanced by the announcement that embattled CEO Michael Eisner, who has run the company for 20 years, will resign in September 2006.
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Walt Disney Co.'s Michael Eisner would be willing to stay on as chairman after relinquishing his chief executive post next year, according to published reports.
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CQ&quot;&gt; Walt Disney Company shareholders might have done a double take when their chief executive, Michael D. Eisner, testified in court last week about the brief tenure of his friend, Michael S. Ovitz, as company president.
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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.  - 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.