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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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Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael D. Eisner, who survived a takeover bid and a shareholder rebellion aimed at his ouster earlier this year, announced plans yesterday to retire in 2006
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Eisner has said that Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Bob Iger would be his choice as successor, but the Disney board is expected to consider many candidates.
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LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner Friday said he will step down from the media conglomerate in 2006, aiming to end his two-decade reign on his own terms after a shareholder revolt nearly cut it short earlier this year.
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Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Michael  Eisner will retire in September 2006, when his contract  expires, the company said on Friday.
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Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner yesterday told a Delaware courtroom how he had appeared on television praising his former second-in-command Michael Ovitz even as he was plotting his departure from the company.
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LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner plans to quit the companyâs board when his contract expires in 2006, but said he wonât leave Disney before then as some prominent shareholders have demanded.
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Michael Eisner plans to step down  as Walt Disney Co. DIS.N chief executive when his contract  expires in September 2006, the head of the entertainment  conglomerate said in a letter to the board released on Friday.
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Veteran CEO plans to make a clean break when he steps down in 2006 -- Fortune interview. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Michael Eisner expects to make a clean break with Disney when he leaves his CEO post in two years
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner said company President Robert Iger is his "preferred choice" to succeed him in running the entertainment conglomerate, according to an interview in Sunday's Los Angeles Times.
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Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Michael Eisner said company President Robert Iger is his &quot;preferred choice&quot; to succeed him in running the entertainment
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Outgoing CEO Eisner likes deputy Bob Iger. Other contenders: CBS&#39;s Les Moonves, Fox&#39;s Peter Chernin, Apple&#39;s Steve Jobs... NBC Universal (GE ) Chairman Robert Wright joked after hearing the news that &quot;it&#39;s
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The Board of Directors of US entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. has chosen a search firm to help it find a successor for Disney CEO Michael Eisner, the company announced Monday.
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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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The race to succeed Disney chief Michael Eisner took an intriguing turn yesterday when it emerged that a highranking Murdoch employee has signed a new contract making it easy for him to leave ... but only if he goes to Disney.
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Los Angeles - Walt Disney&#39;s board of directors on Tuesday said it will consider both external and internal candidates to replace outgoing chief executive Michael Eisner, and that it plans to find a successor by June 2005.
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Michael Eisner has told Walt Disney Co. directors that company president Robert Iger is his "preferred choice" to succeed him as chief executive of the media giant, according to a newspaper report published Sunday.