Disney’s Robert Iger Loomed Over His Successor as CEO, Creating Tensions Soon after he took the top job in 2020, Bob Chapek was at odds with Mr. Iger and complained to deputies he had been undermined from the startLast year, Disney’s then-CEO Bob Chapek, in blue shirt, and then-Executive Chairman Robert Iger appeared at a Walt Disney World Resort event Florida. The two men had clashed over layoffs at the theme parks early in the pandemic. Gerardo Mora/Getty Images

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