{"id":41516,"date":"2019-11-10T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41516"},"modified":"2019-11-10T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T12:22:31","slug":"disneys-ceo-is-about-to-take-the-biggest-risk-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41516","title":{"rendered":"Disney&#8217;s CEO is about to take the biggest risk of his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Bob Iger is on top of the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">As Disney&#8217;s CEO, he has led the company through a commanding 14 years, peaking with a dominating 2019. This year alone, Disney&#8217;s film studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/28\/media\/disney-box-office-record-year\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">boasted the highest-grossing year in box office history<\/a>, with months to spare. His parks and resorts opened the largest expansion ever with the innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/23\/media\/star-wars-land-disney-galaxys-edge\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars: Galaxy&#8217;s Edge<\/a>. Oh, and on top of all of that, he closed the company&#8217;s $71 billion acquisition for most of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/19\/media\/disney-fox-merger\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">21st Century Fox<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But all of that may not mean as much if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/12\/media\/disney-streaming-things-to-know\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+<\/a>, the company&#8217;s upcoming streaming service, isn&#8217;t a hit. For Iger, who has said that he plans to step down in 2021, it may be his last \u2014 and riskiest \u2014 bet yet.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Iger is on top of the world.As Disney&#8217;s CEO, he has led the company through a commanding 14 years, peaking with a dominating 2019. This year alone, Disney&#8217;s film studio boasted the highest-grossing year in box office history, with months to spare. His parks and resorts opened the largest expansion ever with the innovative&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}