Embattled Disney CEO will leave in 2006
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LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner Friday said he will step down from the media conglomerate in 2006, aiming to end his two-decade reign on his own terms after a shareholder revolt nearly cut it short earlier this year.
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The Walt Disney Co. board of directors said Tuesday it expects to find a chief executive to succeed Michael Eisner by next June and would consider both outside executives and Disney
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The race to succeed Disney chief Michael Eisner took an intriguing turn yesterday when it emerged that a highranking Murdoch employee has signed a new contract making it easy for him to leave ... but only if he goes to Disney.
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A Microsoft Corp. executive responsible for its newly launched Zune digital music player will leave the company.
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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Microsoft's Business Division President will step down, and the former head of the company that created Flash will take his spot.
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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 Chief Executive Michael  Eisner will retire in September 2006, when his contract  expires, the company said on Friday.
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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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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, the embattled chief executive of Walt Disney, is to quit the media giant when his contract expires in two years. The decision heralds the end of his 20
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The trial over the severance package of Michael S. Ovitz, Disney's former president, signals the end of an era in which executives managed their companies as personal fiefs.
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eBay (Quote, Chart) CEO Meg Whitman isn&#39;t interested in filling the top spot at Walt Disney Co. (Quote, Chart) when Michael Eisner retires in 2006, a spokesman for the auction giant told internetnews.
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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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Microsoft Corp. has turned to an executive at The Walt Disney Co. to fill a vacancy created when the software maker fired its chief information officer.
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Walt Disney Co's DIS.N board of  directors said on Tuesday it planned to find a replacement for  Chief Executive Michael Eisner by next June and then search for  a new chairman, setting out a timetable for a change of  leadership at the company after more than a year of shareholder  protests.
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The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it expects to hire a new chief executive by next June after a search that will include both inside and outside candidates to replace Michael Eisner, who is retiring in 2006.