The division needed someone who sounded like they knew what they were doing, Packard recalls.
Packard believes that process control begins with employees making decisions quickly and at the lowest levels.
The hardest business decision I ever made was to build this building, says Packard.
So far, at least, Packard has been able to convert them to his gospel of self-reliance and penny-pinching.
By contrast, Dell managed just 18.28% percent gross margins and Hewlett-Packard 24.67% in their latest quarters.
This petty infirmity and its accompanying mood swings got me mulling over ex-Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn.
Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP), on the other hand, have nearly non-existent positions in high mobility.
Hewlett-Packard remains the largest vendor, with 17.7% market share, up from 17.3% a year ago.
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Three others are slightly undervalued: Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ), Leucadia ( LUK) and UnitedHealth Group ( GS).
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Unlike, say, Hewlett-Packard, Apple has always been a company that deals poorly with failure.
Hewlett-Packard wasn't winning much new tech business with Allstate Insurance until Thomas Hogan came calling.
Giant incumbents like IBM, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and, yes, Oracle, guard the turf too closely.
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It's closed to outsiders, but Hewlett-Packard Co. is staging the greatest new show in corporate America.
Hackborn may have been Dave Packard's favorite, but Fiorina, at 47, is a flawed vessel.
The investigators had indeed stumbled on direct evidence of contact between Kawamoto and a Hewlett-Packard director.
That same day, Hewlett-Packard announced that Mark Hurd would become chairman as well as C.
Perkins had earlier sent him an e-mail explaining what had happened on the Hewlett-Packard board.
Hewlett-Packard recently announced that it will eliminate 27, 000 jobs in an effort to cut costs.
Dell has been slower to rebound than competitor Hewlett-Packard because it focuses on selling to businesses.
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They picked up some Hewlett-Packard last year after the flat-footed management took one too many writeoffs.
It told of how Hewlett-Packard and UCLA had tricked tiny molecules into behaving as memory bits.
Hewlett-Packard Company had an annual average earnings growth of 25.4% over the past 5 years.
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Patricia Dunn, who is fifty-three, was invited to join the Hewlett-Packard board in 1998.
This year, however, Palm has a tiny footprint at displays for its new parent company, Hewlett-Packard.
Hewlett-Packard just slashed 14, 500 jobs and took out its old pension and health care plans.
United Technologies (nyse: UTX - news - people ), IBM and Hewlett-Packard qualify.
Leo Apotheker was not on many short lists for the top job at Hewlett-Packard.
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