Related Content: Michael Ovitz

Big Shot Boomerangs

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:28 AM

Politics. Athletics. Rock Roll. Boomerangers exist in every walk of life. Find out how, when, and why these celebrities decided to go back to the futureREAD»

GOVERNANCE | 4 comments

Vindication -- or a Narrow Escape?

BY Jennifer Reingold
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Wed Aug 10, 2005 at 2:43 PM

Anger and disappointment. That was my first reaction to the news that Delaware's Court of Chancery had cleared the Disney board of fiduciary wrongdoing when it approved a $140 million severance package for short-lived COO Michael ...READ»

HUMAN RESOURCES | 1 comment

A Mickey Mouse Spectacle

Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 28, 2004 at 5:39 PM

For a lurid glimpse into life in the executive suite, you can't do better than the testimony in the shareholder lawsuit against Disney over the short, expensive tenure of Michael Ovitz. Shareholders accuse Disney's directors of ...READ»

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Michael Ovitz

BY Liz Zack
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:29 AM

Hollywood talent agencies never functioned the same after Ovitz sunk in his teeth. Now crunching the industry for the second time, the titan of talent intends to surpass his own reputation.READ»

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Don't Keep Score

BY Keith Ferrazzi
Relevancy Score: 90
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM

Hey, with the national political process well underway, wouldn't it be cool if you had grown up with the President-to-be and he owed you a big favor? Wrong! As tempting as that may sound, this kind of thinking will actually lead you ...READ»

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Power

BY Harriet Rubin
Relevancy Score: 86
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

During What we now consider the genteel 1990s, the meanest SOB I had ever met was Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today. His ego then was bigger than his newspaper, with which Gannett was blanketing the country at huge losses. At one ...READ»

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Coaching School Dropout

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 53
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:50 AM

We sent our intrepid reporter to a five-day coaching seminar. Here's why he lasted just two days.READ»

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Lock up That Corner Office!

BY Jennifer Reingold
Relevancy Score: 53
Wed Nov 17, 2004 at 11:12 AM

I got a huge chuckle this morning reading the WSJ account of Michael Eisner's testimony in the lawsuit over the severance paid to ousted Walt Disney President Michael Ovitz in 1996. The entire thing would be hilarious if it weren't ...READ»

PERSONAL BRANDS | 27 comments

Change or Die

BY Alan Deutschman
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:53 AM

All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new answers -- and ways to do better.READ»

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT | 1 comment

Art/Basel: Fine Art & Fat Cat Feeding Frenzy

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 32
Thu Jun 15, 2006 at 10:24 AM

Imagine going into a fine modern art museum, where the usual suspects -- Matisse, Picasso, Warhol, Leger, Klee, Kandinsky, etc. -- are arrayed on the walls. Now imagine that each one has a price tag next to it, so if you have the ...READ»

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