It could happen, but more likely, Meg is on her own.

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The reasons for the failure are numerous, but the new CEO Meg Whitman is smart enough to realize it can't simply abandon the market entirely.

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Shadow energy secretary Meg Hillier welcomed the plans but warned they must provide "fairness and affordability for consumers".

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Meg Whitman is talented, but is not the right leader for HP.

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But if that stat were really true then Meg would have been 135 years old when she died, which seems very unlikely.

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Meg appreciated his appreciation for the machine but not his obsession for it.

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So far, Meg Whitman has been flailing at Hewlett Packard but she sure led EBay successfully for a number of years.

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Chief executive Meg Whitman has said she will turn HP around but has warned it may take several years.

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Meg Whitman was not in charge at the time but was on the board - and in our interview she came pretty close to admitting that HP had overpaid with or without any accounting shenanigans.

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But you will see Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)headed by Meg Whitman, one-time California gubernatorial candidate and former chief executive of EBay.

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Meg was a college intern from Lehigh--paid but barely.

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We will also see that smart and courageous women like Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer ( Yahoo), Virginia Rometty (IBM) and Meg Whitman (HP) will not be changed by their power, but will change the nature of it.

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Meg Whitman has always said it will be a long job turning around HP, but she told me she'd made a lot of progress.

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But only eight of them created their fortunes from scratch, including MarthaStewartMartha Stewart, eBay 's Meg Whitman and Oprah Winfrey.

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Meg Whitman might be aware of this (eBay is a platform and ecosystem company) but so far there is no sign that she appreciates the platform and ecosystem route.

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But if she's to make the business a technology leader again, rather than managing its decline, Meg Whitman needs to come up with a standout product pretty soon.

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