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	Michael Eisner - MSN Encarta
		Michael Eisner, born in 1942, American entertainment executive, whose leadership in the 1980s and 1990s revitalized the Walt Disney Company.
		Eisner admired Walt Disney and was especially interested in children’s programming and family entertainment.
		Eisner remained on the board of directors and retained the title of chief executive officer until his retirement in 2005.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556016/Eisner_Michael.html (420 words)

	The Walt Disney Company - Michael D. Eisner Biography
		Eisner, 63, is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Company, a post he held from 1984 to September 2005.
		Eisner was President and Chief Operating Officer of Paramount Pictures Corp., which was then a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf+Western Industries, Inc. Prior to joining Paramount in 1976, Mr.
		Eisner was Senior Vice President, Prime Time Programming, for ABC Entertainment, a division of the American Broadcasting Company, Inc., with responsibility for the development and supervision of all prime-time series programming, limited series movies made for television and the acquisition of talent.
	corporate.disney.go.com /corporate/bios/michael_d_eisner.html (112 words)

	Eisner, Michael
		Michael Eisner joined the Disney Company in 1984 and helped re-craft the it throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
		Eisner had more success with cable TV as he expanded efforts to make the Disney Channel a pay cable TV power.
		Michael Eisner must be credited with creating in the Disney Company one of the true media powerhouses of the end of the twentieth century.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/E/htmlE/eisnermicha/eisnermicha.htm (1341 words)

	Michael Eisner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Eisner was born to a wealthy family in Mt.
		On September 30 Eisner resigned both as an executive and as a member of the board of directors, and, severing all formal ties with the company, he waived his contractual rights to perks such as the use of a corporate jet and an office at the company's Burbank headquarters.
		Eisner was the largest shareholder in Disney ([2]) until the terms of the Pixar acquisition resulted in Steve Jobs becoming the largest stockholder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Eisner (1063 words)

	Michael Eisner Interview -- Academy of Achievement
		Michael Eisner: Not particularly, no. My wife tells me that was her life.
		Michael Eisner: Well, I think I'm very different than most of the people that are invited to the Academy of Achievement.
		Michael Eisner: Well, let's see, I was an usher and then I went back to school, and then I came back, wrote a novel...
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/eis0int-1 (2321 words)

	Eisner Makes Hairpin Turn in His Career - New York Times
		Eisner's lawyer later called him for a name for the company he was creating, the Italian term stuck.
		Eisner, the former chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, described the encounter in an interview Monday.
		Eisner was widely criticized for being a micromanager, even going so far as to pick the wallpaper for the hotel rooms in Disney's theme parks.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/04/18/business/media/18eisner.html?ex=1303012800&en=6e3725447dee88fe&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (639 words)

	Michael Eisner Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		By 1995, Michael Eisner, the Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company was, without question, one of the two or three most important men in Hollywood, or indeed anywhere in American business.
		Michael Eisner was born in Mt. Kisco, New York.
		Michael Eisner enrolled in Denison University, as a pre-med student, but quickly found his true interests ran to English literature and the theater.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/eis0bio-1 (1336 words)

	Michael Eisner: Mouse In A Gilded Mansion - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Michael Eisner: Mouse In A Gilded Mansion - Forbes.com
		NEW YORK - Michael Eisner ought to be happy in the Magic Kingdom: Money has poured into his pockets since he was appointed chairman and chief executive of Walt Disney 17 years ago.
		Michael Eisner on The Forbes Four Hundred Richest in America
	www.forbes.com /2001/04/26/eisner.html (558 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Profile: Michael Eisner
		Mr Eisner's battle with Comcast, the cable firm whose hostile takeover bid that has rattled his cage, is in a different league from his ongoing feud with founding father Walt Disney's nephew, Roy.
		So far, Mr Eisner has come out on top in the internal feud, despite name calling by Roy Disney who in his letter of resignation from the Disney board described him as a greedy man without a soul.
		The 61-year-old Mr Eisner is not a pushover, having held on to the top job since 1984.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3482431.stm (521 words)

	USATODAY.com - Disney strips chairmanship from Eisner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The three were targeted along with Eisner in the "Save Disney" campaign by Roy Disney, the 74-year-old nephew and son of founders Walt and Roy P. Disney, and former corporate raider Gold.
		After Eisner invited the duo onstage to air their gripes, Disney got a standing ovation from the often-raucous crowd of 3,000 shareholders.
		Staring hard at Eisner, the last Disney family member to work at the company said he hoped his microphone would not be cut off.
	www.usatoday.com /money/media/2004-03-03-disney-shareholder-meeting_x.htm?csp=24 (1662 words)

	Forbes Faces: Michael Eisner - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Eisner said Disney's recent performance "represents a return to the kind of growth we have enjoyed for most of the past 16 years." Disney's stock rebounded in fiscal 2000 as well.
		The SEC documents show Eisner's stock option package was restructured by company directors in June to ease any tax burden he or Disney might have if the company gets acquired, although the filing said no such plans were underway.
		Described as creative, domineering and energetic, Eisner, 58, was formerly president and chief operating officer of Paramount Pictures, which he joined in 1976.
	www.forbes.com /2001/01/16/0116faceseisner.html (655 words)

	Michael Eisner's passion -- Disney's America
		On 28 September 1994, Michael Eisner announced that Disney was cancelling it's plans to build Disney's America after a bruising national media fight with
		Michael Eisner's Remarks of January 4, 1996 to Disney stockholders
		We are interested in hearing from students who are writing papers about Comcast's 2004 offer to buy Disney; Eisner's 2005 trip to India to promote two new Disney channels; Shelby Foote's role in the defeat of Disney's America; or Disney after Michael Eisner's 2005 retirement.
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	Biography for Michael Eisner (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		As a top programming executive at ABC in the 1970s, he was instrumental in taking the network from its usual third place to the top through programming like "Happy Days" (1974).
		When Barry Diller brough Eisner to Paramount in 1976, the company was firmly in sixth place (out of six) in the movie industry, without a single release in the box-office top ten.
		Even though the judge ruled that Eisner did not owe the Disney shareholders any money, the judge ruled that Eisner often put his own interests over that of his company.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0004894/bio (707 words)

	Michael Eisner
		The 62-year-old Walt Disney Co. (DIS) CEO weathered a hostile takeover attempt in February, and a month later he was stripped of his chairmanship following a 45% no-confidence vote by shareholders.
		And before Eisner left for the holidays, Disney settled SEC charges that it failed to disclose transactions between the company and its board members from 1999 through 2001.
		Oddly enough, Eisner's departure comes as Disney appears to be on the mend.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/05_02/b3915647.htm (504 words)

	Michael Eisner's Unerring Media Instincts
		Then someone asked Eisner what he thought of the late Martin Davis, former chairman of Paramount Communications, who died of a heart attack in 1999.
		"He was the worst man that ever lived," said Eisner, who was a Paramount exec before joining Disney.
		The genius thing about this story is that it has Eisner going after someone rather viciously, but also leaves him on the high road in this exchange by putting the most egregious remark in Diller's mouth.(Which Diller denies ever making, by the way.)
	www.businessweek.com /innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2006/06/michael_eisners.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia (357 words)

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