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Hewlett Packard can be an American icon, the major information technology company on earth. The bedrock of Silicon Valley, it employs more than 300,000 people, its market capitalization is in excess of $100 billion and its products are in almost every home in the united states where there is a printer or computer.
In 2003 the company began a transition from the family management style of its founders. It made a vivid statement by hiring as its new CEO the most noticeable female business executive in America: Carly Fiorina. Less than 2 yrs later, the board terminated her, amid accusations of imperiousness that had started damagingly to drip in to the business advertising.
The board at that time included one of Silicon Valley’s most flamboyant enterprise capitalists and owner of the major & most expensive yacht on earth, and a previous CIA property who believed he in person channeled the worth of the company’s founders. Each had an extended and complicated record with HP, and each believed he should determine the company’s future. They ran against a corporate and business governance expert whom they could not roll, and a fresh CEO whose loyalties on the board were completely opaque. In this way, the stage was established for a rancorous feud that separated the board into implacably distrusting factions. In the center of the damaging schism, HP introduced the Big Lie. The lie was pinned on the chairman, who was obtaining treatment for stage 4 ovarian cancer tumor. And it sizzled through a largely unquestioning advertising.
Anthony Bianco gets to heart and soul of the honest morass at HP that finished up damning the whole board that created it. Almost every American comes with an interest in how the country’s most significant corporations are run, and the type of individuals entrusted with them. The story of Hewlett-Packard shows power battles that shape corporate and business America and can be an alarming morality tale for our times.
In 2003 the company began a transition from the family management style of its founders. It made a vivid statement by hiring as its new CEO the most noticeable female business executive in America: Carly Fiorina. Less than 2 yrs later, the board terminated her, amid accusations of imperiousness that had started damagingly to drip in to the business advertising.
The board at that time included one of Silicon Valley’s most flamboyant enterprise capitalists and owner of the major & most expensive yacht on earth, and a previous CIA property who believed he in person channeled the worth of the company’s founders. Each had an extended and complicated record with HP, and each believed he should determine the company’s future. They ran against a corporate and business governance expert whom they could not roll, and a fresh CEO whose loyalties on the board were completely opaque. In this way, the stage was established for a rancorous feud that separated the board into implacably distrusting factions. In the center of the damaging schism, HP introduced the Big Lie. The lie was pinned on the chairman, who was obtaining treatment for stage 4 ovarian cancer tumor. And it sizzled through a largely unquestioning advertising.
Anthony Bianco gets to heart and soul of the honest morass at HP that finished up damning the whole board that created it. Almost every American comes with an interest in how the country’s most significant corporations are run, and the type of individuals entrusted with them. The story of Hewlett-Packard shows power battles that shape corporate and business America and can be an alarming morality tale for our times.
