Former CEO Mark Hurd pulled the two divisions apart soon after he took over from Fiorina.
Investors remain concerned about the potential for weak back to school sales and who will replace CEO Mark Hurd.
Only massive cost cutting by the following CEO Mark Hurd kept HP alive, wiping out any remnants of innovation.
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There is former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, whose strange story smelled more of schoolboy romanticism and naivety than cynical libertinage.
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HP's stock has been enjoying a recent upswing under a fresh round of cost cutting, including over 14, 000 planned layoffs, from new CEO Mark Hurd .
That's 55 percent below its price in August 2010 before HP's board parted ways with then-CEO Mark Hurd in a dispute over his expense reports and his relationship with a company contractor.
In the way that HP's move might help people forget about the fumbling of former CEO Mark Hurd's ouster, Google's change could be designed to erase memories of some awkward statements made recently by its outgoing CEO.
Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ - news - people ), whose board split over the departure of former CEO Mark Hurd, has now recruited five executives to its board with industry expertise but also with business ties to the new CEO, Leo Apotheker.
Not long after my last post (October 19), which concerned the tenuous relationship between the Hewlett-Packard board and former CEO Mark Hurd, came word that a group of shareholders have sued current and past H-P board members, including Hurd, alleging that directors allowed and possibly encouraged illegal activities in sales to the U.S. government.
As chairman of H-P, Ms. Dunn also helped lead a CEO search that recruited Mark Hurd from NCR Corp.
This afternoon Mark Hurd, CEO, president and chairman of HP resigned, effectively immediately, after an investigation surrounding a sexual harassment claim found violations of company standards.
In some circles, Deolalikar quickly became even better known than his former boss, Mark Hurd, who was forced out as HP CEO last week after a bizarre non-sex non-scandal.
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