Anheuser-Busch's board is, by today's corporate governance standards, a fairly clubby bunch--including executives on whose boards Busch III sits, the in-house p.r. adviser and a first cousin who evidently helped him in the power grab in 1975.
Anheuser-Busch's board is, by today's corporate governance standards, a fairly clubby bunch--including fellow executives on whose boards Busch III sits, the in-house p.r. adviser and a first cousin who evidently helped him in the power grab in 1975.
Most likely, he said, the case will end in a monetary settlement in which H-P receives some compensation from Oracle, effectively recouping some of the money it paid Mr. Hurd when he left H-P.
In the three-plus months since Leno launched in prime-time, the 10 p.m. audience had fallen close to 30%.
He underwrote an expedition to Greenland, and in 1992 it found the P-38 buried in 268 feet of ice.
In this version, the H-P story is, in fact, all about the marginalization of the PC itself amid skyrocketing smartphones sales in a tablet-dominated future.
An image flashed of the old guy standing bereft and blue-skinned in his tighty-whities like a P.
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.
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.
The takeover of Autonomy is the latest in many missteps H-P has made through acquisition.
German prosecutors named H-P in a criminal bribery case against a current and two former employees, potentially exposing the computer maker to fines.
Or take Carly Fiorina, who on becoming CEO of H-P in 1999 became the first female CEO of a Dow Jones 30 company.
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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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.
In conversations with H-P board members, Mr. Hurd argued that the harassment allegations didn't need to be disclosed since the board had cleared him of such claims, while the board eventually decided to disclose the harassment claims and their investigation, Mr. Hurd told acquaintances.
Finance is scarce, and it doesn't help that currencies--now including the South African rand (see our editor-in-chief's comment, p. 13)--are debauched.
Wahid's National Awakening Party (PKB), based on the 30-million-strong Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) mass Muslim movement that he leads, was considered the PDI-P's natural partner in the coming coalition-building battle for the presidency.
Sitting about a half-inch lower on its suspension, and shrouding outrageous 20-inch alloys and Pirelli P Zeros in the wheel wells, the XKR-S looks like what it is: a huge, privileged brat, an upper-class lad with a bad attitude and mouth like a vulcanized black bass.
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"Leveraged buyouts tend to leave existing customers and innovation at the curb, " H-P said in a press release.
On the upside, Sidney Kimmel has a late-in-life career change (p. 44).
The fact that alleged FCPA violations loom large in the suit against H-P and Hurd exponentially underscores the risks and burdens facing corporate leaders.
Mr. Lane said that he and Mr. Apotheker know the new board members and that they each have a background in a business that H-P is pursuing.
Government regulators may also home in on whether the H-P board properly disclosed the allegations against Mr. Hurd and the reasons for his dismissal, according to the management lawyers.
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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H-P fell in after-hours trading after missing revenue expectations.
State Enterprises Minister Laksamana Sukardi, in charge of reforming the state-owned sector, is a former banker who joined Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in the early 1990s, when it was hardly politically expedient to do so.
Diana Shipping (NYSE: DSX): A leader in dry bulk shipping with a P-E of 6.59, an operating profit of near 50, and 373 million in cash, and a major beneficiary of the rising Chinese economy.
What Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, are doing in the areas of vaccines overseas (see p. 50) and in K-12 education in the U.S. is nothing short of phenomenal.
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Few miseries compare to landing in a city at 6 a.m. only to while away the morning in traveler's purgatory awaiting an "early" 1 p.m. check-in that you had to grovel to get.
Haringey Council was severely criticised following the death, after sustained abuse, of 17-month-old Baby P in August 2007.
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