--- description: Find out why Disney was selected for the list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023: Disney image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt942cf18059480805/698a3dc4b3fce31af40ca8ba/time100-companies-Disney-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jun 21, 2023 # Disney Corporate citizen by [Belinda Luscombe](/author/belinda-luscombe/) ## Belinda Luscombe Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large  Bob Iger, Disney's CEO. Bob Iger, Disney's CEO.Samir Hussein—WireImage/Getty Images Future historians looking for a crisp illustration of the cultural divisions in 2020s America will find it hard to resist this one: a 100-year-old company built on family fun in a [political showdown](https://time.com/6281591/disney-desantis-timeline-case/ "undefined") with a conservative governor looking to make his name. That showdown intensified in May when Disney canceled a $1 billion development project in Orlando as part of its feud with Governor Ron DeSantis. Companies that endure, says Bob Iger, who unexpectedly returned as CEO in November, do not abandon core values. And Disney remains formidable: In 2022, its film studio was the world’s top-grossing for a seventh straight year. _A weekly newsletter featuring conversations with the world’s top CEOs, managers, and founders._ [_Join the Leadership Brief_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=leadership&source=100companies "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285180/disney-titan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285180/disney-titan/"},"headline":"Disney","datePublished":"2023-06-21T10:55:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:27:28.099Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285180/disney-titan/","keywords":["TIME100 Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt942cf18059480805/698a3dc4b3fce31af40ca8ba/time100-companies-Disney-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Belinda Luscombe","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/"}],"creator":"Belinda Luscombe","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt942cf18059480805/698a3dc4b3fce31af40ca8ba/time100-companies-Disney-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285180/disney-titan/","name":"Disney"}}]}] ```