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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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In a interview on CNN&#39;s &quot;Larry King Live&quot; in September 1996, Michael D. Eisner, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, praised its former president, Michael S. Ovitz.
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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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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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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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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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Will Eisner, a master of American  comics and a pioneer of the graphic novel who gave his name to  the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars, has died at the  age of 87, his publisher said on Tuesday.
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Eisner, one of Disney&#39;s largest individual shareholders, with 14 million shares, said Friday that he&#39;s leaving the door open to serving on Disney&#39;s board through fiscal 2007, possibly beyond.
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The Walt Disney Co.  board of directors on Tuesday said it expected to find a chief executive to succeed Michael Eisner by next June and would consider both outside executives and Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Bob Iger for the position.
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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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Walt Disney Co&#39;s (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) board of directors said on Tuesday it planned to find a replacement for Chief Executive Michael Eisner by next
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GEORGETOWN, Del. - Walt Disney Co. (DIS) Chief Executive Michael Eisner on Monday played down his friendship with former Disney President Michael Ovitz, whose brief and tumultuous tenure as president of
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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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GEORGETOWN, Del., Nov. 17 -- Lawyers for plaintiffs in a shareholder suit over Michael S. Ovitz's $140 million severance package from the Walt Disney Co. suggested on Wednesday that Disney chief executive Michael D. Eisner may have viewed his former protege as threatening.
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Michael Eisner will leave the Walt Disney company in 2006 when his contract expires, the company said today.
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Michael Eisner reportedly has told Walt Disney Co. directors that company President Robert Iger is his &quot;preferred choice&quot; to succeed him as chief executive of the media
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Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner will step down from the media conglomerate in September 2006, ending a two-decade reign after a shareholder revolt nearly cut it short earlier this year.