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That's all part of a plan by HP to boost its research and development spending, improve product quality and bring new focus on cloud computing and software. Much of the focus will be, at least initially, on HP's layoffs. "Workforce reductions are never... Full Article at ComputerWorld
Now, those chickens are coming home to roost as computer sales slip, and the battered HP workforce will take another huge hit. Welcome to Meg Whitman's HP. Now that the new CEO has six full months under her belt, we have a pretty good idea of where she... Full Article at InfoWorld
FILE - In a Friday, March 9, 2012 file photo, Hewlett Packard CEO and President Meg Whitman speaks at a conference on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. HP is in the midst of a turnaround under a new chief, former eBay Inc. CEO Whitman. View Photo »
I’m confident that as general counsel, John will only continue to elevate HP’s standards of excellence and integrity and the performance of an already outstanding legal team
The company also revealed a 3% slump in revenue and a 30% decline in quarterly profit. One of the casualties is Mike Lynch, who is leaving less than a year after selling Autonomy to HP in a hugely controversial $11bn deal. New CEO Meg Whitman blamed... Full Article at Computer Business Review
Whitman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, said Wednesday that "workforce reductions are never easy. They adversely affect people's lives." LOS ANGELES — Hewlett-Packard Co. , battered by declining profits and tech rivals with... Full Article at Mail Tribune
Currently Lynch is leading the Information Management division of HP, the company that acquired Autonomy last year. HP does not give a specific reason for Lynch´s departure other than the significant drop in licensing income on Autonomy software. Meg... Full Article at Legal IT Professionals
FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, Hewlett Packard CEO and President Meg Whitman speaks at a conference on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday, May 23, 2012 that it's laying off 27,000 workers, 8... View Photo »
All you have to do is look at the dot-com companies that actually survived the 2000 boom ... Three of the most successful were led by Jeff Bezos, Meg Whitman [and] Eric Schmidt — an amazing success story.
HP also announced that its net income for the second quarter, which ended April 30, was $1.6 billion, a drop of 31 percent over the same quarter a year ago. It reported revenue of $30.7 billion, down 3 percent. Excluding one-time charges, the company's... Full Article at Macworld UK
'They adversely impact people's lives, but in this case, they are absolutely critical to the long-term health of the company. 'Our goal is simple: a better outcome for the customers at reduced cost for HP.' Making changes: Chief executive Meg Whitman... Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
The streamlining announced Wednesday represents HP's largest payroll purge in its 73-year history. The reductions will affect about eight per cent of HP's nearly 350,000 employees by the time the overhaul is completed in October 2014. The cuts come... Full Article at Winnipeg Free Press
Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) was President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008, when she stepped down from her role. She was a director of the company from March 1998 until she resigned at the end of 2008. According to Forbes magazine, Whitman was worth an estimated $1.4 billion in 2007. She... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
I’m confident that as general counsel, John will only continue to elevate HP’s standards of excellence and integrity and the performance of an already outstanding legal team
All you have to do is look at the dot-com companies that actually survived the 2000 boom ... Three of the most successful were led by Jeff Bezos, Meg Whitman [and] Eric Schmidt — an amazing success story.
John will only continue to elevate HP’s standards of excellence and integrity
Now that Meg Whitman has come on, they're thinking more about balancing between shareholders and bondholders.
I want to thank David Healy for all of his efforts on behalf of HP ... David provided strong leadership during a challenging period of transition at HP. We're all grateful for his contributions.
CEO Meg Whitman argued that the company had to place more bets on ‘disruptive’ innovation like Apple, creating categories or fundamentally changing them instead of the mostly ‘evolutionary’ approach HP used.
Through his deep understanding of our business and his extensive knowledge of the law, John has already made significant contributions to HP ... I'm confident that as general counsel, John will only continue to elevate HP's standards of excellence and integrity and the performance of an already outstand...
Then someone’s looking at your profile and see you’re connected with Meg Whitman? Woah. Game changer.
Steve Jobs is the business genius of our generation
It is encouraging for new CEO Meg Whitman to have started admitting issues others wouldn’t … Our concern is that any fixes look far from easy and likely involve a marathon, while ‘reorgs’ don’t even get HP to the starting line, in our view
We are a hardware company ... Seventy percent of our sales revenue comes from hardware, and we are proud of it.
I've been on the phone with the heads of all four of our disk drive partners and I'm not even sure they have a complete picture about when they're going to be back up and running
Meg Whitman steadies HP but big challenges remain
Strategy is about the art of exclusion, deciding what you're not going to do
Meg Whitman is moving quickly to institute changes, for example fewer silos, greater emphasis on R&D, more conservative expectations ... Last week, we met with the head of HP Labs and were impressed with the new organisational focus and direction put in place by CEO Whitman.
We need to move quickly to capture emerging opportunities in areas like cloud, security, and information management ... We’ve already assembled some formidable assets. Now we need to align our portfolio to deliver a new generation of capabilities. We see a once-in-a-generation chance to define the futur...
Meg Whitman is moving quickly to institute changes, e.g., fewer silos, greater emphasis on R&D, more conservative expectations ... Last week, we meet with the head of HP Labs and were impressed with the new organizational focus/direction put in place by CEO Whitman.
We didn’t make the investments we should have during the past few years to stay ahead of customer expectations and market trends ... As a result, we see eroding revenue and profits today. We need to invest now as a market leader from a position of strength, and that’s especially true because these busin...
Meg Whitman is moving quickly to institute changes, e.g., fewer silos, greater emphasis on R&D, more conservative expectations ... Last week, we meet with the head of HP Labs and were impressed with the new organizational focus/direction put in place by CEO Whitman.
The result will be a faster, more streamlined, performance-driven HP
Let him outspend me. Meg Whitman is a good example of what money cannot buy. Right now people are fed up, period.
We are going to have to save to get growth going again at HP
More recently, Meg Whitman largely self-financed her $141 million bid to be California's governor, and Linda McMahon used about $50 million of her personal fortune to finance her run for Senate in Connecticut in 2010. All three candidates lost, as is the case with most self-financed candidates.
We have got to place a few bets where we can fundamentally change the name of the game
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