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The board at HPQ has made awful decisions. Firing Hurd. Hiring Apoteker. Buying Autonomy. Wasting $1BN on Palm. Crippling the PC biz by putting it on the chopping block with no buyer. I don't think anyone on the board should be CEO of HPQ. Rewarding failure. Even if Whitman were not on the board, she shouldn't be the choice. Can you think of an easier CEO job than running EBAY in the early years? With the network effects, then the bubble pop gutting competing startups? When EBAY ran into its limits, she started not looking so good . . . And was fired (CEOs don't actually "resign" or "retire"). So they fired the best CEO the company had in decades, hired a guy who'd been fired from SAP (not an easy thing to manage), now hired a gal who'd been fired from EBAY. Let me guess. Sometime in her first 6 months, she is going to decide that profits and stock price will go up if she cuts 20K heads in the US.
Edit: Wait, I just realized, if she still has political ambitions, then she would not want to axe a ton of US jobs. Which would be bad for shareholders. I wonder if the Board has figured out how to resolve this conflict of interest?
Last edited by jyl; 09-22-2011 at 07:34 PM..
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