It’s no secret that former Disney CEO Bob Iger didn’t end up loving his first choice successor, Bob Chapek, following Chapek’s very public firing and Iger’s rehiring. But now that Iger has left the top post for good and handed over the reins to former parks head Josh D’Amaro, he’s got some specifics notes on exactly what made one a better fit for the job than the other.
\n\n“We had a process back in 2019 and ’20 when we chose my successor. Looking back, perhaps it wasn’t as thorough as we thought, in part because we thought we knew the person extremely well,” Iger tells Nitin Nohria, former dean of Harvard Business School, in an interview published by the Harvard Business Review Thursday. “He’d worked for the company for a very long time and for me directly. And we knew his strengths and we knew some of his weaknesses as well.”
\n\nFormerly a parks exec, Chapek took over the Disney CEO job in February 2020 as Iger’s chosen successor. Two years later, the Disney board ousted Chapek in November 2022 after a series of missteps and brought Iger back to the role until he stepped down as CEO this March…
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