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When he was CEO of Proctor & Gamble, John Pepper was one of several chief execs forced to disrupt its chummy corporate culture. As the newly appointed nonexecutive chairman of the Walt Disney Co., he may aim to keep things calm. A shareholder revolt forced the board to remove CEO Michael Eisner as chairman in 2004 and opt for a nonexec chair. Although Pepper lacks media experience, A.G. Edwards analyst Michael Kupinski says Disney will benefit from Pepper's global-branding background as it expands worldwide. With shares up 30% since October, Disney's shareholders have been as quiet...
...Walt Disney Studios chief Dick Cook once said, this is a quote from 2004, ?It?s a real advantage to be able to identify a film as an M. Night Shyamalan film.? How do you feel about that statement...
...fast enough, high enough, scared enough yet? Are we pulling enough G's? Following Thursday's death in Orlando of a 12-year-old boy who collapsed after riding Walt Disney World's Rock 'N' Roller Coaster, the answer may finally be yes. In a scenario that will raise a cold sweat among epinephrine junkies who live for escalations in the theme-park roller coaster arms race, industry insiders are starting to predict that fear will not be the driving factor in the next generation of rides...
Mary Jo Bane, a former Clinton administration official who has been at the Kennedy School of Government for most of the past 25 years, will replace controversial professor Stephen M. Walt as the school’s Academic Dean, effective July...
...Walt, the current academic dean and a professor of international relations, stepped down shortly after he published in March a controversial working paper entitled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy...