Eisner, on Stand, Describes the Courting of Ovitz
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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 staunchly defended his efforts as president of the Walt Disney Co. on Thursday in between biting exchanges with the attorney representing shareholders in a &#36;140 million lawsuit.
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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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WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware corporate law judge Wednesday heard a plea from attorneys for former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz that asks to remove Ovitz from the list of defendants in a shareholder
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner testified Tuesday that he discussed individually with directors bringing on Michael Ovitz as the entertainment giant&#39;s president and reviewed the details of his
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Michael Ovitz, the former  president at Walt Disney Co., testified on Wednesday that he  fought and begged to stay in his job until his good friend and  boss Michael Eisner pushed him out.
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Michael Ovitz, Walt Disney Co.'s former president, testified Tuesday that he was undercut a number of times by Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner as he tried to expand the entertainment giant's business.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Michael Ovitz said he fought  and begged to stay on at Walt Disney Co. until his good friend  and boss Michael Eisner pushed him out, the former Disney  president, now at the center of a shareholder lawsuit,  testified on Wednesday.
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The longtime relationship between Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner and ex-Disney President Michael Ovitz underwent a &quot;slow deterioration&quot; beginning in early 1996 that eventually lead to Ovitz&#39;s
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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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Michael D. Eisner appeared for a second day of testimony in the shareholder lawsuit over the lucrative severance package granted to Michael S. Ovitz.
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In the early 1990s, Michael Eisner, Chief Executive Officer of the Walt Disney Co., had a &quot;Get Shorty&quot; dark-side encounter with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
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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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Disney big cheese Michael Eisner took the witness stand for the first time yesterday in an ongoing shareholder lawsuit, defending his choice of ex-super talent agent Michael Ovitz as Disney&#39;s No.
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Michael D. Eisner, who has spent much of the last year fending off challenges to his two-decade reign at the Walt Disney Company, has announced
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Michael Ovitz, once a top Hollywood dealmaker, is set to testify Tuesday to face charges by angry Walt Disney Co. shareholders that he cheated them when he left the company with a &#36;140 million severance package.
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Once labeled the most powerful man in Hollywood, Michael Ovitz portrayed himself yesterday as a victim whose every move at Disney was thwarted by his boss, Michael Eisner.