On Tuesday, the entertainment industry was rocked by the seemingly out-of-the-blue announcement that Bob Iger, the lauded CEO of the Walt Disney Company, was going to step down from the company and that his successor, Bob Chapek, would become the new CEO “effective immediately.” While Chapek is a nearly 30-year veteran of the company, he is far from a household name and his appointment, to many, is hugely controversial. This isn’t the abrupt, all-out brawl that accompanied the last transition of power, when Michael Eisner was ousted from the company following a groundswell of …
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