Observers like Richard Windsor, a former technology analyst with Nomura, are unequivocal: H-P needs a new board of directors, period.
Go to Wall Street and tell long, confusing stories about how you are transforming H-P from a low-margin to a high-margin business.
German prosecutors named H-P in a criminal bribery case against a current and two former employees, potentially exposing the computer maker to fines.
H-P hired a law firm to do its own investigation and has exonerated Mr. Hurd of sexual harassment, saying he didn't violate H-P's guidelines, even while refusing to disclose Ms. Fisher's allegations or H-P's findings.
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As a result, H-P shareholders have no way of evaluating the validity of H-P's claim.
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On Monday morning, H-P executives hosted a company meeting that was webcast to employees across the globe.
"Leveraged buyouts tend to leave existing customers and innovation at the curb, " H-P said in a press release.
The meeting followed a weekend of H-P working to reassure investors and customers that it was business as normal at the company.
The new directors bring the number of women on the 13 member H-P board to a grand total of four, or nearly 31%.
H-P stockholders take a big hit, careers will be ruined (on both sides of the deal) and whatever marketplace promise Autonomy had may be destroyed.
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Mr. Lane said that he and Mr. Apotheker know the new board members and that they each have a background in a business that H-P is pursuing.
No deliberations over a Hurd or an Apotheker can mean much when the board is content to let a company like H-P lurch from pillar to post in hopes of quick revenue injections to stave off inevitable market share erosions.
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.
Ms. Fisher wrote a brief letter absolving H-P of responsibility and declaring that there were "many inaccuracies" in the earlier letter, without specifying what they were.
The pair met in a conference room at H-P's Palo Alto headquarters, where the executive provided an outline of the alleged accounting fraud, Mr. Schultz said.
At the time, one of these people said, H-P was looking for a way to unwind the deal before it closed, but couldn't find any material accounting issues.
Liberals think they smell more than a little H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y.
H-P was expected to announce a reorganization that will move its imaging and printing group under its PC-making personal systems group.
Never mind the years of effort H-P spent -- including a controversial merger with Compaq -- becoming the world's largest PC maker.
Most likely, he said, the case will end in a monetary settlement in which H-P receives some compensation from Oracle, effectively recouping some of the money it paid Mr. Hurd when he left H-P.
Ms. Whitman: I'm sorry about the state of the Oracle-H-P relationship because for many years Oracle and H-P were the best demonstrated practice of collaboration between a software company and hardware company.
H-P's board has faced a backlash for the lucrative severance granted its former CEO.
H-P's suit focuses on a confidentiality agreement, which restricts Mr. Hurd from disclosing sensitive information about his former employer.
Hurd was forced out over allegations of inaccurate expense reports and sexual harassment of a former reality show actress and H-P contractor, Jodie Fisher.
H-P's board has faced a shareholder backlash over Mr. Hurd's exit.
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