Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) ran the The Walt Disney Company from 1984 to 2005.

Early life

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Eisner, born to affluence in Mt. Kisco, New York, was raised on Park Avenue in New York. He attended the Lawrenceville School and graduated from Denison University in 1964 with a B.A. in English. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.

ABC and Paramount

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After two brief stints at NBC and CBS, Barry Diller at ABC hired Eisner as Assistant to the National Programming Director. Eisner moved up the ranks, eventually becoming a vice president in charge of programming and development. In 1976, Diller, who had by then moved on to become chairman of Paramount Pictures, plucked Eisner from ABC and made him president and COO of the movie studio. During his tenure at Paramount, the studio turned out such hit films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, the Star Trek film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Beverly Hills Cop, and hit TV shows such as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Cheers and Family Ties.

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"Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk." - Michael Eisner
fastwebprofits (Wayne Lambert) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:18:34 -0000
"Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk." - Michael Eisner
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success. - Michael Eisner
BeachTent (Patrick Irish) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:00:25 -0000
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success. - Michael Eisner
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success. - Michael Eisner
MicrowaveOpen (Harriet Fernandes) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:00:17 -0000
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success. - Michael Eisner
The killer app for the computer industry is piracy. -Michael Eisner #quote
NetTips4 (Derek Overington) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:11:25 -0000
The killer app for the computer industry is piracy. -Michael Eisner #quote
@ayacullo And who is your favorite villain? Captain Hook? - No! Michael Eisner.
Stratofariusbr (Stratofarius) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:35:10 -0000
@ayacullo And who is your favorite villain? Captain Hook? - No! Michael Eisner.
@ERIKAjaneC I can see the Michael Eisner similarity. Maybe even a little Derek Fisher from the Lakers?
Soulman4 (James) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:05:42 -0000
@ERIKAjaneC I can see the Michael Eisner similarity. Maybe even a little Derek Fisher from the Lakers?

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