Editing Michael Eisner (section)

{{Short description|American business executive (born 1942)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name         = Michael Eisner
| image        = MichaelEisnerOct10.jpg
| caption      = Eisner in 2010
| birth_name   = Michael Dammann Eisner
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1942|3|7}}
| birth_place  = [[Mount Kisco, New York]], U.S.
| death_date   = 
| death_place  = 
| education    = [[Denison University]] (BA)
| occupation   = {{hlist|Businessman|media executive|author}}
| years_active = 1966–present
| boards       = [[Denison University]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Board of Trustees |url=http://denison.edu/campus/about/our-administration/board-of-trustees |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012150815/https://denison.edu/campus/about/our-administration/board-of-trustees |archive-date=October 12, 2016 |access-date=August 26, 2013 |website=denison.edu |publisher=Denison University}}</ref> <br />[[The Tornante Company]]
| party        = 
| spouse       = {{marriage|Jane Breckenridge|1967}}
| children     = 3, including [[Breck Eisner|Breck]] and [[Eric Eisner (producer)|Eric]]
| relatives    = {{plainlist|
* [[Sigmund Eisner]] (great-grandfather)
* [[Stacey Bendet]] (daughter-in-law)
}}
| website      = {{URL|www.michaeleisner.com}}
| signature    = Michael Dammann Eisner signature.svg
}}

'''Michael Dammann Eisner''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|z|n|ər}} {{respell|EYEZ|nər}}; born March 7, 1942)<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=9 March 2012 |title=Monitor |page=26 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |issue=1197}}</ref> is an American businessman<ref name="rongji1998">{{Cite book |last=Rongji |first=Zhu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QE2aBAAAQBAJ&q=%E2%80%9CHere+I+want+to+apologize%2C+and+in+the+future+we+should+prevent+this+sort+of+thing%2C+which+insults+our+friends%2C+from+happening.%E2%80%9D&pg=PA93 |title=Zhu Rongji on the Record: The Road to Reform: 1998-2003 |date=January 8, 2015 |publisher=Brookings Institution Press |isbn=9780815726296}}</ref> and former chairman and [[chief executive officer]] (CEO) of [[the Walt Disney Company]] from September 1984 to September 2005.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bendazzi |first=Giannalberto |date=October 23, 2015 |title=Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0azMCgAAQBAJ&dq=7+September+1984+Ron+Miller+On+22+September+Michael+Eisner+new+CEO&pg=PA104 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9781317519911 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Orwall |first=Bruce |date=4 March 2004 |title=Eisner Steps Down as Disney Chairman |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB107832734296045356 |url-status=live |access-date=6 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316113506/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB107832734296045356 |archive-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Eisner makes clean break, resigns from board of directors - Chicago Tribune |website=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=October 7, 2005 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2005/10/07/walt-disney-co-eisner-makes-clean-break-resigns-from-board-of-directors/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507153532/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-10-07/business/0510070136_1_robert-iger-michael-eisner-disney |archive-date=May 7, 2018 |access-date=May 7, 2018}}</ref> Prior to Disney, Eisner was president of rival film studio [[Paramount Pictures]] from 1976 to 1984,<ref name="hollywoodreporter1" /> and had brief stints at the major [[television network]]s [[NBC]], [[CBS]], and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].

Eisner's 21-year stint at Disney saw the revitalization of the company's poorly performing [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|animation studios]] with successful films such as ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]'' (1989), ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]] '' (1991), ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' (1992), and ''[[The Lion King]]'' (1994), a period known as the [[Disney Renaissance]]. Eisner additionally broadened the company's media portfolio by leading the acquisitions of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], most of [[ESPN]] and [[The Muppets]] franchise. Eisner also led major investments and expansion of the company's [[Disney Parks, Experiences and Products|theme parks]] both domestically and globally, including the openings of [[Disney's Hollywood Studios|Disney-MGM Studios]] (now Disney's Hollywood Studios) in 1989, [[Disneyland Paris|Euro Disney]] (now Disneyland Paris) in 1992, [[Disney's Animal Kingdom]] in 1998, [[Disney California Adventure|Disney's California Adventure Park]] and [[Tokyo DisneySea]] in 2001, [[Walt Disney Studios Park]] in 2002 and [[Hong Kong Disneyland]] in 2005.

Eisner's final years at Disney were tumultuous: a string of [[box-office bomb]]s in the early 2000s, public feuds with former associates such as [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]] and [[Steve Jobs]], and dissatisfaction with Eisner's management style culminated in the "Save Disney" campaign organized by [[Roy E. Disney]], during which Eisner rapidly lost the confidence of much of Disney's Board of Directors. As a result of the pressure from the campaign, Eisner announced in March 2005 that he would step down as CEO prematurely, handing day-to-day duties to [[Bob Iger]] before formally leaving the company in September 2005. He went on to create the stop-motion animated sitcom ''[[Glenn Martin, DDS]]'' in 2009.