Ex-Disney President Ovitz Says Eisner Was Obstacle
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Former Walt Disney Co. President Michael Ovitz defended his tenure in the job, testifying that efforts to improve and expand the No.
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner on Tuesday said Michael Ovitz's troubles were rooted in a sense of elitism, pointing to a corporate retreat at which Ovitz rode in a limousine while other executives piled into a bus.
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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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A former Walt Disney Co. director testified Monday that Disney chief executive Michael Eisner told her in a December 1996 telephone conversation that then-Disney President Michael Ovitz was being fired and was eligible for a large severance package.
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Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner said he knew hiring his old friend Michael Ovitz as company president was a mistake but saw no basis to dump him and deny his severance, a former director testified.
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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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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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A former Walt Disney Co. director testified that CEO Michael Eisner hoped that Sony Corp. would take Michael Ovitz off his hands and save Disney a &quot;bundle&quot; in severance pay.
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Disney CEO Michael Eisner vividly described his side of the painful 1996 breakup with former Disney president Michael Ovitz in testimony at a shareholder lawsuit here Tuesday.
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner on Monday downplayed his supposedly close friendship with Michael Ovitz, saying he was "amused" by the executive whose rocky tenure as the company president has landed both men in a shareholder lawsuit.
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GEORGETOWN, Del. - Michael Ovitz, Walt Disney Co.&#39;s former president, defended his record Tuesday as the entertainment giant&#39;s second in command, saying he was undercut a number of times by Chief Executive
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CEO who once led company to industry glory has found himself under fire in recent years. LONDON -- Michael Eisner, who led the Walt Disney Co.
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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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When Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael D. Eisner and Disney President Michael S. Ovitz appeared on &quot;Larry King Live&quot; on Sept.
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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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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, Del.  - Walt Disney Co.'s chief  executive Michael Eisner on Wednesday was confronted with notes  in which Michael Ovitz was called "dangerous" and "a caged  animal" as he desperately tried to fire his one-time friend  from the entertainment giant.