Proven Job Eliminators

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Al Lewis Meg Whitman, the "proven job creator," unveiled plans last week to cut 27,000 jobs at Hewlett-Packard."The second quarter marks my first six months at H-P, and I continue to learn about the co ...
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Mark Hurd: 'I felt Oracle was in a position to do something nobody else could do'

Source: The Telegraph

Hurd immediately embarked on a programme of aggressive cost-cutting and strategic discipline, and when he was forced out in 2010, the firm was in much better shape. He led another big merger, this time with the IT contractor EDS, which catapulted HP int ...
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Median CEO pay rose 6% in 2011

Source: Arkansas Online

LITTLE ROCK Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for chief executive officers. The Associated Press looked at the 322 companies in the Standard ...
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Jon Carson: Why Leadership and CSR Are Tightly Aligned

Source: The Huffington Post

Leadership and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are two separate issues that are increasingly talked about, though rarely in the same sentence. But you can't have one without the other. And both are regrettably in short supply. Leadership, ...
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Sun Hardware 'Blows,' According to Oracle Internal Documents

Source: CIO.com

CIO — One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of litigation is because of something we call discovery. Both sides get the opportunity to drill into each other's private correspondence and look for things neither remembers wr ...
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Report: Oracle Exec Slams Sun Hardware, Saying 'We Bought A Dog' (ORCL, HPQ)

Source: Silicon Alley Insider

Hewlett-Packard has slyly released a bunch of juicy emails and archived instant messages that show Oracle executives badmouthing Sun hardware, CIO.com reports. HP and Oracle are like the enterprise technology world's Hatfields and McCoys. ...
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Flextronics Flexin'

Source: Motley Fool

Peter is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited. Singopore based (NASDAQ: FLEX) is best known as an ODM for the likes of Hewlett-Pack ...
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Hewlett-Packard is losing a star in Mike Lynch | Wendy M Grossman

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off The Autonomy founder's relationship with HP hasn't worked out – a familiar tale of eccentric inventors and big companies Mike Lynch, who borrowed £2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics in 1991. P ...
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RIP webOS: Again and for good this time

Source: MacDailyNews

After “HP reshuffled its management [they] decided to make webOS open-source to keep the platform from going the way of the dodo,” James Kendrick reports for ZDNet. “It would offer webOS to the world for anyone to use, ...
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