Disney's Eisner: Ovitz Irritated Other Top Staff
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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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Disney boss Michael Eisner faces opposition about his plan to step down in 2006, with some shareholders saying it should be sooner.
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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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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. should have  fired Michael Ovitz because of his "substantial and repeated  dishonesty," a legal expert testified on Thursday in support of  shareholders suing the Disney board over Ovitz's receipt of a  $140 million severance package.
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Lawyers for investors suing Walt Disney Co. questioned whether chief executive Michael Eisner held a formal meeting to tell board members there were no grounds to deny then-president Michael Ovitz $140 million in severance. Shareholders of Disney, the number two US media company, contend directors did not know Ovitz might be entitled to the $140 million if ...
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner testified Thursday that he told Disney&#39;s directors he was hoping to &quot;trade&quot; president Michael Ovitz to Sony Corp.
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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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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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Former Walt Disney Co. President Michael Ovitz affirmed that his efforts to improve the company were sabotaged by managers, including Chief Executive Michael Eisner.
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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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By Bloomberg News. Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive of Walt Disney, kept board members abreast of the negotiations to hire the talent agent Michael S. Ovitz as the company&#39;s president
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Michael Ovitz wanted a &#36;50 million signing bonus to become president of the Walt Disney Co., but the directors who eventually hired him were not willing to make that kind of outlay, an executive compensation expert testified Tuesday.
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Michael Eisner lashed out at the &quot;clichÃ©d&quot; portrayal of the &quot;real&quot; Hollywood in his fifth and final day testifying in a shareholder suit over former company president Michael Ovitz&#39;s lucrative payout.
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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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A new book written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author is said to have sections highly critical of DisneyÂs departing chief, Michael D. Eisner.
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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