Lord Hurd said the commission had not decided to back the abolition of hereditary peers.
Hurd said that on some occasions board members had almost come to blows.
Nick Hurd said legislation was needed in case agreement was not reached with the unions, but that ministers hoped negotiation would work.
Mr. Hurd said he could reach a private settlement with Ms. Fisher that would lower the chance of Ms. Fisher's allegations ever becoming public.
Hurd said that where Oracle has new products, it gains share.
The board and he decided days earlier that he would leave H-P and were discussing details of his exit package, Mr. Hurd said to these people.
"When the queen bee lays her eggs, worker bees can determine whether the resulting larvae are to become an adult worker bee or an adult queen bee, " Dr Hurd said.
Businesses need to determine the processes where they can drive strategic differentiation and then begin that automation process, Hurd said, adding that those slices of competitive advantage can differ from company to company and industry to industry: sometimes Customer Experience, sometimes procurement, sometimes supply chain or something else.
" Mr. Hurd has said he made a financial settlement with her that was "de minimis.
The H-P board isn't aware of any further allegations against Mr. Hurd, said people familiar with the matter.
Hurd is said to be mulling his future career, while HP is gearing up for significant product rollouts that will compete with IBM, Cisco, Dell, and Apple, among others.
Hurd himself, said by a source close to the matter to be fielding new job offers, may think about bringing along esteemed friends at HP.
"By making it possible to add donations at cash points we can make an even greater difference to other people's lives, " said Nick Hurd, minister for civil society.
One former Sun executive said Mr. Hurd's history of negotiating with component suppliers such as Intel Corp.
Covington said Mr. Hurd told its investigators that evening the two watched the Minnesota Vikings play the Green Bay Packers on TV, first in the hotel bar and later together in his hotel room.
He told Mr. Hurd the board had decided to disclose some of Ms. Fisher's claims, and the remaining debate was over how to do so and whether Mr. Hurd could stay on, said someone familiar with what he told the board.
Both Mr. Hurd and Ms. Fisher have said no sex was involved.
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The investigators told of a half-dozen dinners with notations saying Mr. Hurd had dined with Mr. Lynch, on occasions when Mr. Lynch said he wasn't present and when Mr. Hurd actually dined with Ms. Fisher.
The memo said then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd intended to welcome the "broad thrust" of the report.
Mr. Hurd, through a spokesman, has said there was nothing improper about his relationship with Ms. Fisher, a one-time actress who managed executive introductions at company-sponsored marketing events.
People familiar with H-P's board have said the board was unhappy Mr. Hurd reached a private settlement with Ms. Fisher, precluding the board from completing an investigation about the sexual harassment allegations.
Other people have said the company messed up when it dumped Hurd.
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So far this time, it appears the SEC isn't looking into H-P's disclosures around Mr. Hurd's resignation, people familiar with the matter said.
"What we're seeing is the outgrowth of the divide we've seen coming in the Republican Party for quite some time, " said Virginia Beach tea party activist Karen Miner Hurd.
When Hurd was first named to the job in 2005, he said the final judgment of his tenure would be whether an outsider would succeed him to the top spot.
Mr. Hurd reached a private settlement in August with Ms. Fisher after which she said her initial claim contained inaccuracies, which she didn't specify.
While Mr. Ellison "certainly sets strategy" and "is very deeply involved with products, " he also delegates responsibility to his executive team, especially when it comes to operations, said Mr. Singh, who hasn't worked with Mr. Hurd.
While it isn't unusual for companies to sue departing executives to enforce exit agreements, H-P's suit Tuesday against Mr. Hurd is atypical in that former CEOs are rarely subject to such legal actions, experts said.
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.
Mr. Hurd is "without question one of the best executives Oracle could have picked for this specific role, " he said.
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