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.
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It's closed to outsiders, but Hewlett-Packard Co. is staging the greatest new show in corporate America.
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.
Hewlett-Packard has announced a boardroom shake-up that includes its chairman Raymond Lane stepping down.
At the beginning of the year Hewlett-Packard (HP) launched a range of PCs with touch-sensitive screens.
More recently, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and Cisco Systems (NASDQ: CSCO) followed the same path as Caterpillar.
Hewlett-Packard failed to see the threat from IBM (NYSE:IBM), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), and Lenovo.
Another technology miss came from Hewlett-Packard, now led by E-Bay veteran Meg Whitman.
Customers now include biggies like Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), IBM (NYSE:IBM) and JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM).
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