On his first day at H-P in 2005, he held an all-company meeting and, without notes, proceeded to outline on a white-paper flip chart the current and expected numbers for each H-P business unit and their strategic goals.
On Monday morning, H-P executives hosted a company meeting that was webcast to employees across the globe.
An H-P spokeswoman said the company is focused on running its business.
Over his five-year tenure at H-P, Mr. Hurd grew the company into the world's largest information-technology provider by revenue.
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Since it sprouted from the ground in 1995--everyone knows the apocryphal story of founder Pierre Omidyar and his girlfriend's Pez dispensers (see p. 50)--the company has hidden behind a sort of cyberscreen.
In the meeting, H-P sought to reassure employees the company had solid leadership in place, that it was well positioned in the marketplace, and that its strategy was sound, according to people familiar with the matter.
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.
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.
But others on Monday questioned why Mr. Hurd is getting paid at all, given the H-P board's conclusions about his violation of company policies.
Recruiters say Mr. Hurd may not lead another major public company anytime soon following all the H-P drama.
At least one year before the H-P acquisition, an Autonomy executive brought concerns about the company's accounting practices to U.S. regulators including the SEC, according to people familiar with the matter.
Reflecting on the company's third-quarter performance, Wendell P.
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H-P found that Mr. Hurd didn't violate the company's sexual harassment policy but determined that he violated its code of business conduct, including inaccurate expense reports that appeared to conceal a personal relationship with Ms. Fisher.
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.
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The meeting followed a weekend of H-P working to reassure investors and customers that it was business as normal at the company.
The company remains a bit player in a printer market dominated by giants like H-P.
The company will have its next mid-quarter conference call today at 4:30 P.
When the Hormel company proposed a pay cut for its laborers in the mid-eighties, Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union refused to give in.
H-P's board conducted an internal probe that concluded Mr. Hurd didn't violate the company's sexual-harassment policy.
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