New Disney CEO Takes On a Crisis Coming From Every Direction
- Theme parks close, cruises canceled and ‘Mulan’ gets postponed
- With Bob Iger around to help: ‘Two heads are better than one’
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Walt Disney Co. Executive Chairman Bob Iger began his memoir published last year with the sad tale of his trying to open the company’s new Shanghai theme park in 2016 while suddenly having to deal with a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, and the unrelated death of a child at the company’s Walt Disney World resort nearby.
Iger and theme-park chief Bob Chapek huddled on how to handle the crisis. “We’re on it,” Chapek assured him.