Making it big in media means generating hits. And while top executives may not be hands-on with every decision, they are where the buck stops.
Take Disney’s animated blockbuster “Frozen,” which grossed $1.2 billion at box offices worldwide. While Disney CEO Bob Iger didn’t make the movie, he did orchestrate Disney’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Pixar in 2006, which brought in talented executives to help reform Disney’s faltering animation studio.
“With movie studios and the media, it’s more of a talent business. You have highly paid people at all levels,” said Alan Johnson, managing director of Johnson Associates, a compensation consultant in New York. “The view is the right CEO can make a big difference.”
Huffington Post / December 12, 2014