Los Angeles Times: The acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm are a big reason Disney’s stock price has more than quadrupled during CEO Bob Iger’s tenure. Beyond that, they kept Disney from a fate that has befallen many a corporate giant that tried to live off its past success. Iger decided early on to try to control events rather than react to them. To be “fearless,” as he put it in a recent interview. “I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life,” he said. “You can look at all the numbers in the world, but at some point somebody … needs to dig down deep, search his soul, analyze or get in touch with his own or her own instinct, and decide.”