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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Mr. Schultz, H-P's general counsel, said H-P was shown "significant documentation from former Autonomy executives refuting the allegations" of any accounting issues.
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.
As a result, H-P shareholders have no way of evaluating the validity of H-P's claim.
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As CEO, he attended meetings where H-P's plans for future products were discussed, H-P's lawsuit alleges.
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.
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.
Four years ago, the SEC chided H-P's board for failing to disclose that a director resigned after a dispute over the "pretexting, " or snooping into personal phone records, of board members and reporters by H-P contractors.
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In September Hurd was named co-president of H-P rival, Oracle.
Over his five-year tenure at H-P, Mr. Hurd grew the company into the world's largest information-technology provider by revenue.
Yet irrespective of how the specific write-down numbers are interpreted, H-P has seized on the Autonomy debacle as an opportunity to wipe the slate clean.
Apart from the expense-report issues, exactly what services was Ms. Fisher performing for H-P?
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Whitman drew kudos for her quick and determined move - - her first major decision since she took the No. 1 job at the troubled H-P on Sept. 23, 2011.
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Hewlett recently introduced a number of new multi-function devices, and CEO Meg Whitman said that previous management had failed to keep H-P competitive in the fastest growing portions of the market.
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Autonomy was founded as Cambridge Neurodynamics in 1991 by Michael Lynch, a Cambridge-educated computer scientist, according to this flattering profile by the Guardian after he left H-P in May.
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The company remains a bit player in a printer market dominated by giants like H-P.
Take Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and now the boss of H-P.
The takeover of Autonomy is the latest in many missteps H-P has made through acquisition.
Mr. McCartney said no competitors have attempted to woo Purdue away from H-P yet.
H-P on Tuesday sued Mr. Hurd for breach of contract for moving to Oracle.
H-P's board conducted an internal probe that concluded Mr. Hurd didn't violate the company's sexual-harassment policy.
By 2008, H-P stock had actually risen 163%, prompting some spirited defense of the transaction.
This trend is expected to benefit notebook manufacturers like Dell, H-P and Apple.
Mr. Hurd holds deep knowledge of H-P's operations that could prove useful at Oracle.
H-P's board has faced a backlash for the lucrative severance granted its former CEO.
It was destroyed in less than a year by the petty infighting at H-P.
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H-P said then that Autonomy was key to its transformation into a higher-margin seller of software.
On Tuesday, he blamed any problems at Autonomy on poor management by H-P and executive turnover.
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