Carleton S. Fiorina
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Meg Whitman tells investors at H-P's ([[HPQ]] -2.2%) shareholder meeting her company is fully committed to selling hardware - that's a departure from Leo Apotheker's software obsession. Whitman also ...
… P's PC/printer re-org is about boosting profits by removing complexity. But Evercore declares the move " uninspiring ," noting it strongly resembles a reshuffling attempted by Carly Fiorina in '05. ( more ) Post your comment!
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Shareholders Locked Out of the Boardroom
… governance saga makes one wonder how proxy access might have played out if the rule had survived. The saga began with CEO Carly Fiorina 's desperate proxy battle with Walter Hewlett over HP's merger with Compaq in 2002 and her noisy ouster by HP's board …
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Hewlett-Packard: Value Trap Or A Value Investor's Dream?
… HPQ ) has been the business media's dream come true and an investor's nightmare. First there was the appointment of Carly Fiorina as CEO in 1999, which made her the first female CEO of a DJIA company. She had unfortunate timing, beginning her tenure …
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Hewlett Packard: The Cheapest Stock In The S&P Index?
… the CEO position and that uncertainty and lack of stability has hurt the stock price. The list of recent CEOs include: Carly Fiorina , Mark Hurd, Leo Apotheker and now Meg Whitman. Even though this turnover has caused a huge drop in the stock price and …
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Hewlett Packard Too Big To Succeed?
… brevity of his tenure, following Mark Hurd, or the obvious dysfunction of the board , or even the destructive tenure of Carly Fiorina , that has investors scurrying for the exits like rats on a sinking ship. It's something much more basic. Hewlett Packard …
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New Management Teams Are No Panacea
… management shuffles really are the catalyst for change. Even just looking at HP, the firm thrived under Hurd after he replaced Carly Fiorina . And orderly transitions (look at Tim Cook taking the reigns at Apple AAPL) often occur without a blip. But generally …
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HP: Grow Up, Already
… of the hour (I truly hope his tenure will be measured in hours, not years). I vividly remember the early 2000s, when Carly Fiorina , then CEO of HP, engineered the HP merger with Compaq. She argued that the merger was a must for HP’s future to be bright …
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Democrats Stress Social Issues
… television ads, targeted phone calls and direct mail. In California's Senate race, Sen. Barbara Boxer says Republican Carly Fiorina 's opposition to abortion would turn women into criminals, a contention the Fiorina campaign calls "outlandish." In …
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'Nobody tell Barack Obama what number comes after a trillion'
… Obama will bring Air Force One back to California later this month to help incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer against Republican Carly Fiorina -- and drop into Nevada again to do the same for embattled Harry Reid vs the GOP's Sharron Angle. http://latimesblogs …
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Valinor scores on Gymboree deal…… the cost basis, so it’s hard to say how well Valinor did on this deal. (Perhaps if California candidate for Governor Carly Fiorina gets her way there will be better transparency than the current non-disclosure disclosure available via 13Fs and 13Ds …