Ovitz did not adapt to Disney culture: Eisner
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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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Actor Sidney Poitier, a former Walt Disney Co. director, said he supported firing ex-company president Michael Ovitz because he was mismatched with other executives.
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Former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz insisted Tuesday that he worked tirelessly to better the company but frequently ran into resistance from CEO Michael Eisner and a handful of senior executives who refused to report to him.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Michael Eisner, the chief  executive of the Walt Disney Co. DIS.N, on Thursday said it  was "stupid" to appear on a national television show in 1996 to  show his support for Michael Ovitz and conceded he was less  than candid with the public during the interview.
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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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Michael Ovitz, Walt Disney Co.&#39;s former president, said Friday he was mistaken in his previous testimony that his annual bonus was tied to Disney chief executive Michael Eisner&#39;s bonus.
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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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Michael Eisner, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., on Thursday said it was "stupid" to appear on a national television show in 1996 to show his support for Michael Ovitz and conceded he was less than candid with the public during the interview.
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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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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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A Walt Disney Co. director testified Tuesday that he believed Disney chief executive Michael Eisner had the authority to fire Michael Ovitz as the entertainment giant&#39;s president.
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner on Tuesday said Michael Ovitz&#39;s troubles were rooted in a sense of elitism, pointing to a corporate retreat at which
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Michael Ovitz staunchly  defended his efforts as president of the Walt Disney Co. on  Thursday in between biting exchanges with the attorney  representing shareholders in a $140 million lawsuit.
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LONDON - Michael Eisner, who led the Walt Disney Co. to huge success in the 1980s but more recently clashed with dissident stockholders including the founder's family, will leave the company in 2006 when his contract expires, the company said Friday...
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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.  - 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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Walt Disney Co.&#39;s former top legal adviser testified Tuesday that Michael Ovitz was a &quot;total failure&quot; as Disney&#39;s president in part because he didn&#39;t fit into the Disney way of doing business and because he failed to ease the burden on chief executive