By Dino-Ray Ramos
28.02.2020 - 19:06 / variety.com
“I’ll change that before I leave.”
That was the simple, but loaded pledge made last September by Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Company’s former CEO and newly-minted executive chairman, when asked directly about his largely male, all-white executive leadership team.
Iger made this inclusion “vow,” as New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd put it, last year while promoting his memoir “The Ride of a Lifetime.” It was a time when many in Hollywood and on Wall Street assumed Iger would ride out the
By Dino-Ray Ramos
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By Tom Grater
Disney executive chairman Bob Iger opened Disney’s annual meeting in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday with an acknowledgement of the challenges presented by the coronavirus crisis while also trying to assure investors that the company is strong enough to withstand a downturn in business.
When Bob Iger announced Feb. 25 that he was stepping down as Disney CEO and into the role of executive chairman, he said he would focus on “getting everything right creatively,” calling it the company’s “biggest priority.” One division where Iger will continued to spend much of that time, per sources close to the executive, is Disney+.
Theme parks and resorts aren’t likely top of mind for the industry set when they think of Disney. But in light of the recent (and very swift) appointment of parks and consumer products head Bob Chapek to succeed Bob Iger as Disney CEO, Chapek’s recent interviews at the parks offer a few insights about the seventh-ever leader of the Mouse House.