Speaking at a conference Wednesday, H-P's interim CEO, Cathie Lesjak, said H-P's relationship with Oracle has been "strained" by Mr. Hurd's hiring.
Or take Carly Fiorina, who on becoming CEO of H-P in 1999 became the first female CEO of a Dow Jones 30 company.
The difference this second time around, is that Whitman was not the CEO of H-P when the decision of acquiring Autonomy was made, merely one of its board director.
Hyatt and Joyce still hoped to avoid losing the CEO and disrupting H-P.
The Times story alleges that executives at Wal-Mart headquarters -- including former CEO H.
Hewlett recently introduced a number of new multi-function devices, and CEO Meg Whitman said that previous management had failed to keep H-P competitive in the fastest growing portions of the market.
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As CEO, he attended meetings where H-P's plans for future products were discussed, H-P's lawsuit alleges.
Take Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and now the boss of H-P.
The ex-Fannie Mae executives named as defendants were CEO Daniel H.
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But on Tuesday, Aug. 3, H-P director Larry Babbio told the CEO the board wanted to begin the process of letting him go.
On Sunday, H-P Chief Financial Officer and interim CEO Cathie Lesjak said the company is "moving through the transition period as quickly as possible" and added that she and other executives had talked to many investors and customers about the situation.
As chairman of H-P, Ms. Dunn also helped lead a CEO search that recruited Mark Hurd from NCR Corp.
Not long after my last post (October 19), which concerned the tenuous relationship between the Hewlett-Packard board and former CEO Mark Hurd, came word that a group of shareholders have sued current and past H-P board members, including Hurd, alleging that directors allowed and possibly encouraged illegal activities in sales to the U.S. government.
H-P's board has faced a backlash for the lucrative severance granted its former CEO.
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