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| Author: | pcernie [ Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | End of the affair for HP boss Hurd |
End of the affair for HP boss Hurd Read more: End of the affair for HP boss Hurd | Enterprise | News | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/ ... z0w7M3M6ez Erm, I'm loathe to say your woman gets about a bit, but...  No sympathy for him either 
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Mon Aug 09, 2010 9:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: End of the affair for HP boss Hurd |
What surprises me is that the shares fell 10% as a result. When in reality the impact of any one person rarely has much effect in a well run company. |
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| Author: | Nick [ Mon Aug 09, 2010 9:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | End of the affair for HP boss Hurd |
Are you joking? The boss of a company can have a profound impact! Look at Steve Jobs for example. Saying the boss can't have much impact on a business is like saying the PM can't have much impact on a country! |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Mon Aug 09, 2010 9:45 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: End of the affair for HP boss Hurd | |||||||||
I did say well run. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple it was visionless and had no direction. It was close to bankruptcy. When he left for medical leave it was a considerably different company and while its share price did move its earnings carried on. It is more about perception by shareholders rather than any change in intrinsic worth. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: End of the affair for HP boss Hurd |
TWiT on Sunday speculated that this was probably more down to Hurd, like Carly Fiorina before him, failing to fit into the HP corporate culture, both were pushing for change in the company and wanted to bring the company into the 21st Century, a lot of the stalwarts of HP were against such radical modernisation and such a change in company culture. (Which begs the question, as to why they hired them in the first place.) How much of this is him having done something greviously wrong, the woman has stated that she did not want this and that she had settled the matter with Hurd, and how much was the board looking for any excuse to get rid of him?  (She claims they never had a relationship and never had sex - although after Clinton managing to get Americans to believe that a blow-job isn't sex, I wonder what they actually did do...)
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| Author: | big_D [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: End of the affair for HP boss Hurd |
I'm sure the stock holders are very happy with the board, for sacking Hurd. His Golden "Parachute" will costs them a small fortune in stock and options, combined with the stock price sinking will cost them nearly $10bn! 
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