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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Apart from the expense-report issues, exactly what services was Ms. Fisher performing for H-P?
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As chairman of H-P, Ms. Dunn also helped lead a CEO search that recruited Mark Hurd from NCR Corp.
For instance, on Feb. 11, 2008, H-P sent Ms. Fisher to the Rancho Bernardo Inn near San Diego, where she dined with Mr. Hurd and spent a night.
Mr. Hurd told Covington on July 20 that he liked to relax with Ms. Fisher after H-P events and had discussed with her certain deeply personal details, including his life with his wife.
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.
Ms. Whitman: I've gotten my arms around the portfolio of H-P products.
Ms Page, 55, resigned shortly after and Mr Gerbeau - known by Dome staff as P-Y - was "parachuted" in to replace her.
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.
P. was claimed by both Ms. Coultman and her daughter, the tie-breaker rule would give the exemption to the parent.
In part because of the pretexting experience, H-P's board conducted lengthy discussions over the summer on how to disclose Ms. Fisher's allegations, even before the board decided to dismiss Mr. Hurd, the Journal has reported.
H-P says an investigation found Mr. Hurd had a "close personal relationship" with Ms. Fisher that was never disclosed to the board.
H-P's board determined that the settlement scuttled their investigation of Mr. Hurd's and Ms. Fisher's relationship, a person familiar with the board's thinking has said.
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.
H-P's board, during the deliberations about what to do about Mr. Hurd, feared Ms. Fisher's lawyer would publicize her letter alleging sexual harassment if it didn't take action against Mr. Hurd, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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