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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

How a Disney senior staff rebellion put the final nail in Bob Chapek’s CEO coffin

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Almost immediately after Disney renewed the contract of embattled CEO Bob Chapek in June, a mutiny began. 

According to corresponding reports by both the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times that cited people familiar with the matter, senior figures within the company’s top brass including finance chief Christine McCarthy started to warn boardroom directors over the summer that the entertainment giant was heading in the wrong direction and campaigned for him to go. 

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