After this conversation, Hurd rejoined Dunn and Baskins and summarized his encounter with Keyworth.
Dunn, asked to approve the operation, referred the investigators to Hurd, who authorized it.
Perkins feels vindicated by the outcome, and, from all appearances, remains close to Hurd.
When Hurd arrived, on April 1, 2005, to take up his duties as C.
Mark Hurd wanted people experienced with tough problems, like laying off fifteen thousand people.
That same day, Hewlett-Packard announced that Mark Hurd would become chairman as well as C.
Likewise, Fiorina had paired the PC biz with printers, but Hurd split the two lines.
When Hurd arrived, he phased out CSG and by July 2005 had junked the group.
Hurd may yet try for a turnaround in any or all of the businesses.
Hurd was followed by Leo Apotheker, who was shown the door after less than a year.
And as Richard Hurd of Cornell University points out, businesses are sophisticated at shutting unions out.
HP's multibillion-dollar scale haunts Hurd, for even minor inefficiencies can cost the company billions of dollars.
"Year on year more money sticks to our fingers, " Coach Hurd tells his players.
Lord Hurd said the commission had not decided to back the abolition of hereditary peers.
Like Andreessen, Ray has, since the Hurd imbroglio, been the public face of the board.
If Marc got Hurd out, he certainly played a key role in bringing Leo in.
When the whole Hurd stuff happened, Marc was the face of the HP board through that.
Mr. Hurd also brings a track record of squeezing costs out of computer production.
H-P on Tuesday sued Mr. Hurd for breach of contract for moving to Oracle.
The debate over Mr. Hurd's actions is not just a matter of setting the record straight.
Then Mr. Hurd told the others to continue their discussion about him, and walked out.
In the boardroom, the discussion focused on whether to keep Mr. Hurd as CEO.
" Mr. Hurd has said he made a financial settlement with her that was "de minimis.
When the board broke for the day, Mr. Hurd still had the support of Messrs.
H-P's board conducted an internal probe that concluded Mr. Hurd didn't violate the company's sexual-harassment policy.
Mr. Hurd told acquaintances that he next wants to do something that he's "passionate" about.
Mr. Hurd holds deep knowledge of H-P's operations that could prove useful at Oracle.
Would culture have prompted HP to be less secretive about the Mark Hurd imbroglio?
Hurd says that the restaurant would have been justified in firing Geller for wearing the bracelet.
Former CEO Mark Hurd pulled the two divisions apart soon after he took over from Fiorina.
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