He brought HP shareholders an unprecedented period of prosperity that made the company the number one technology conglomerate in the world.
He says HP is trying to position itself as convergence or cloud, mobility, real-time analytics, trends changing the industry like never before.
He appreciated the HP Way and the opportunities he had to personally interact with the executives.
Hurd had a gift for team building at the top ranks of HP, but the turmoil he created in making HP huge and profitable made him pretty unpopular in the ranks.
Before attempting to re-invigorate HP he had a long stint at German software firm SAP.
As he continues forward, he has to see if he can make HP coherent at the core.
He thinks both HP and Research In Motion will get some traffic in the enterprise for their tablets.
And he notes that HP, IBM and Cisco are competing more with Dell in the SMB and server markets.
The SEC is also looking at inaccurate expense reports filed by Hurd when he was with HP, the Journal reports.
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He built up HP during the 1940s-to-1960s-that great midcentury time in America when the "aw-shucks, " workaday engineer was an esteemed figure.
He concedes that HP shares look like a bargain statistically, but thinks they will likely stay that way as analysts reduce estimates.
Others who have spent time in and around HP think he is the most likely insider candidate.
The question might be, was he wrong to be so ambitious for where he wanted to take HP?
In January he moved to split HP and began weighing the idea of bringing in an outsider to run it.
White, meanwhile, has been in commercials for Stride, Oakley, American Express and HP where he, as an individual, is featured over his on-slope skills.
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We he made his first public statements last March Apotheker said he intended to make HP a cloud-based services company, with a strong base of analytic software.
According to people close to the Hewlett Foundation, where Hackborn served as a director, the 33-year HP veteran cut his ties to the foundation because the folks at HP believed he had a conflict of interest.
The sales-minded executive Tuesday announced he was dissolving an HP group responsible for sales to small- and medium-sized businesses to give HP's salespeople more direct customer contact, and stressed that HP would work only with partners that made it a point to champion HP products.
He says a completely different HP will be emerging over the next 3-4 years.
Hurd was saying he wanted to build an HP that trained executives who could lead at the highest levels.
While charging HP for meals he had with the contractor, he hid the fact that the contractor was his dinner date.
In multiple restructurings, Hurd sent packing thousands of HP workers and he cut base pay for many of those who remained.
When speaking casually about the future of webOS on non-HP handsets, he noted that the firm was looking to license webOS to various other hardware manufacturers.
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Dell made the decision to replace Rollins as he saw a newly energized HP--with streamlined production, cool new offerings in TVs, cameras and handhelds, and 110, 000 retail outlets--slash prices and snatch away Dell's lead.
At the weekend, former Autonomy CEO and HP executive Mike Lynch fired back at Whitman after accusations that he and his people had cooked the books before selling to HP.
But if Indigo flops, he may well feel vindicated about HP's cross-company marketing strategy.
But he also claims that working with HP was like watching pilots fighting on the flight deck.
Of course, Hewlett never issued a formal plan for HP, nor did he offer a strategic alternative to the Compaq deal.
In a video message to all of HP later that day he urged everyone to focus on selling, and he got back on the phone.
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