Or take Carly Fiorina, who on becoming CEO of H-P in 1999 became the first female CEO of a Dow Jones 30 company.
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.
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.
As CEO, he attended meetings where H-P's plans for future products were discussed, H-P's lawsuit alleges.
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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Take Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and now the boss of H-P.
One who has successfully made the jump is Michael Bloomberg, the co-founder and former CEO of Bloomberg L.P.
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.
The fiscal 2013 Q3 numbers from Logitech are in, and according to new CEO Bracken P Darrell, the "disappointing" results will require immediate action to turn around -- action that includes selling off its remote control (read: Harmony) and digital video security divisions.
H-P's board has faced a backlash for the lucrative severance granted its former CEO.
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.
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