Disney shareholders certainly did--the stock grew by 27% a year during Eisner's first 13 years as CEO, and the company's market capitalization climbed from less than $2 billion to a peak of $90 ...

Disney head Michael Eisner wanted the sleek, art deco helmet from the comic books replaced with a modern, NASA-style helmet (Jeffrey Katzenberg intervened and the iconic helmet stayed).

Michael Eisner would also green light thrill rides like Splash Mountain, which would be constructed at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. All of these attractions are some of the most popular ...

‘The Rocketeer’: How Disney Animators Brought a Nazi Nightmare to Life in 1991 Film. A Wrap Retrospective: Director Joe Johnston and the animators behind the Nazi sequence tell the inside ...

On Jan. 9, 1987, the “Star Wars”-themed attraction Star Tours opened at Disneyland. At the ceremony, Michael Eisner, then the newly installed chairman and CEO of Disney, took a moment to ...

As Abigail Disney notes, the Disney company underwent a big shift in the mid-1980s, when Michael Eisner took over as CEO. ... they soon found themselves in a whole new world of extraordinary wealth.

Michael Eisner interview: You can't beat the magic of the movies! Streaming boom is hitting hard, but former Disney chief insists there's life in the cinema yet By CAROLINE REID FOR THE DAILY MAIL ...

Disney and its current CEO, Bob Iger, have secured the backing of Iger’s onetime boss, former Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner.. In a statement posted to social media, Eisner didn’t name Nelson ...

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Michael Eisner is more than the CEO of Walt Disney Co. He is a star. Strolling through the Disney-MGM Studios theme park in Orlando, his 6-foot 3-inch frame towering over an ...