The Iger difference

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4-11-2008 4:13 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e6847d74-0282-4e65-9228-a5ead934b576/2208C4EC-20C7-489E-A124-F63A65821456/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/companies/iger_interview.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008041110" href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/companies/iger_interview.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008041110" style="font-size: 11px;">money.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/companies/iger_interview.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008041110"><H1 class="storyheadline">The Iger difference</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/companies/iger_interview.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008041110"><H2 class="storysubhead">Bob Iger has led a renaissance at Disney. But can he withstand a bad economy and the tech revolution in the media business?</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/companies/iger_interview.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008041110"><DIV class="storybyline">By <A href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/companies/iger_interview.fortune/mailto:letters@fortunemail.com;rsiklos@fortunemail.com">Richard Siklos</A>, editor-at-large</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/companies/iger_interview.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008041110"><P>(Fortune Magazine) -- At a time of upheaval in the media business, Walt Disney has had a string of hits the likes of which it hasn't had since, well, the early tenure of former CEO Michael Eisner in the 1980s. Three years after succeeding Eisner - and confounding skeptics in the process - CEO Bob Iger talked to Fortune's Richard Siklos about buying Pixar, pulling Disney (<A href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=DIS&source=story_quote_link">DIS</A>, <A href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/snapshots/1416.html?source=story_f500_link">Fortune 500</A>) out of a creative slump with new megafranchises like "Hannah Montana" and "High School Musical," working with Steve Jobs, and wrestling with the image of a certain mouse. Edited excerpts:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/companies/iger_interview.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008041110"><P><B>Around the time you became CEO, there was a widely held view that Disney's brand had become dated. When did this issue first hit your radar?</B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2208C4EC-20C7-489E-A124-F63A65821456/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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