Amid an unprecedented crisis, Bob Iger's hopes of finally stepping away from the Walt Disney Co. were all but totally dashed.
Iger was in the midst of handing over the keys to the company after 15 years — and then the novel coronavirus pandemic rocked the world.
Iger toldthe New York Timeson Sunday he is working as hard as ever before. "A crisis of this magnitude, and its impact on Disney, would necessarily result in my actively helping Bob [Chapek] and the company contend with it, particularly since I ran the company for 15 years!" he said in an email to media columnist Ben Smith.
It was announced in lateFebruary thatChapek would be the company's next CEO and Iger would remain as executive chairman and will lead the board through his.
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