---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950157-21-001092"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HAS"
cik: "0000046080"
company_name: "HASBRO, INC."
filed_at: "2021-10-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T21:38:06.059435+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner takes medical leave; Rich Stoddart named interim CEO

## Summary
- CEO Brian D. Goldner takes medical leave effective immediately; interim CEO Rich Stoddart appointed.
- Goldner previously disclosed cancer treatment in August 2020; leave to focus on health.
- Stoddart was Lead Independent Director, former CEO of InnerWorkings and Leo Burnett Worldwide.
- Edward M. Philip re-appointed Lead Independent Director; Tracy A. Leinbach chairs Nominating Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950157-21-001092
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HAS
- cik: 0000046080
- company_name: HASBRO, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-10-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46080/000095015721001092/0000950157-21-001092-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46080/000095015721001092/form8-k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950157-21-001092
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950157-21-001092.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950157-21-001092.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brian D. Goldner departed as Chief Executive Officer at HASBRO, INC..
  - Action: taking a medical leave of absence
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Brian D. Goldner is taking a medical leave of absence from his role as Chief Executive Officer of the Company (“CEO”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46080/000095015721001092/0000950157-21-001092-index.htm
- Executive change
  Richard S. Stoddart was appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer at HASBRO, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim Chief Executive Officer
  source text: The Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) has appointed Richard S. Stoddart, most recently the Lead Independent Director of the Board, as interim CEO, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46080/000095015721001092/0000950157-21-001092-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.