Michael Eisner

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Michael Eisner (2010)

Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942 in Mount Kisco , New York ) is an American manager. From 1984 to 2005 he headed the Walt Disney Company .

Life

Eisner comes from a wealthy Jewish family. He attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, but then - contrary to the wishes of his family - did not enroll at Princeton University , but at the small Denison University in Ohio. At first he studied medicine, but quickly switched to English literature and theater and graduated with a BA in 1964 . He has been married to Jane Breckenridge since 1967 and has three sons with her.

He began his professional career at ABC television , where in 1976 he became senior vice president of prime time and programming development. In 1977 he became president of Paramount Pictures . As with ABC, he was responsible for numerous successful productions there.

Michael Eisner has held the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Disney Company since 1984 . Sid Bass and Roy E. Disney had stood up for him and Frank Wells . Eisner, together with the former Warner Brothers boss, led the company out of a major crisis. The two managed the turnaround, as they were able to lead the animation division to the height of old successes.

Under Eisner's direction, a theme park was built near Paris , the theme parks in California , Florida and Tokyo received new attractions and new parks, and he was also involved in the planning of new hotels. The company grew through acquisitions: for example Capital Cities / ABC and Miramax . He also played a key role in the development of the Disney stores. Numerous successes have also been achieved in the production of real and animated films, such as Ariel, the Mermaid , The Lion King , Armageddon , The Sixth Sense and Pearl Harbor . The new Walt Disney Theatrical division produced successful musical productions: Beauty and the Beast , The Lion King , The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Aida .

Due to conflicts with, among others, Roy E. Disney and Steve Jobs , the then managing director of Pixar , Eisner ended his employment with Disney in 2005 and left his position to the vice-president Robert A. Iger .

Since then he has run his own production company, The Tornante Company . Tornante invests and produces in the media and entertainment sector. The company invested in the online video production company Vuguru, in the video portal Veoh , where Eisner now works as a board member, in the confectionery and merchandising company Topps and in the animation series Glenn Martin, DDS and BoJack Horseman .

According to Forbes, Eisner's personal wealth is $ 1 billion (as of 2015).

literature

  • with Tony Schwartz : Work in progress . New York: Random House, 1998 ISBN 978-0-375-50071-8
    • with Tony Schwartz: Disney is an adventure every day. Stations in a career. Translation Bernhard Liesen and Erwin Unkrieg. Heyne, Munich 1999.
  • Michael D. Eisner: From Mickey Mouse to a global corporation. The Disney boss on his recipe for success. Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-17263-9 .
  • Ron Grover: The Disney Story. How Mickey makes mice. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main among others 1992.
  • James B. Stewart: Disney War. Börsenmedien AG, Kulmbach 2005, ISBN 3-938350-01-6 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Eisner's Net Worth In 2015: $ 1 trillion . In: Forbes . August 19, 2015. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Eisner, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisner, Michael Dammann (full name); Eisner, Michael D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Kisco , New York