Two high profile governance research firms disagree over how shareholders should vote their proxies at Walt Disney’s annual meeting set for Feb. 11. Institutional Shareholder Services endorses all of Disney’s board nominees, asserting that Disney has taken many positive steps in the past year subsequent to the highly charged shareholder vote at the 2004 meeting. Glass Lewis, however, recommends that shareholders withhold their votes for Chairman George Mitchell, citing conflict issues raised last year.
