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09-25-2005, 11:54 PM
A Quiet Departure for Eisner at Disney
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: September 26, 2005
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 - When Michael D. Eisner leaves the Walt Disney Company for good on Friday, there will be no grand send-off or congratulatory party. Mr. Eisner, who served as chief executive for more than two decades, has agreed only to a one-page retrospective in the company newsletter, according to Disney executives.
It is a low-key way to end a 21-year career that was both brilliant and controversial and during which Mr. Eisner, 63, became the face of Disney for the generation whose parents grew up with the founder, Walt Disney.
More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/business/media/26eisner.html
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: September 26, 2005
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 - When Michael D. Eisner leaves the Walt Disney Company for good on Friday, there will be no grand send-off or congratulatory party. Mr. Eisner, who served as chief executive for more than two decades, has agreed only to a one-page retrospective in the company newsletter, according to Disney executives.
It is a low-key way to end a 21-year career that was both brilliant and controversial and during which Mr. Eisner, 63, became the face of Disney for the generation whose parents grew up with the founder, Walt Disney.
More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/business/media/26eisner.html