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Carly Fiorina reflects on the "Tough Choices"

"Anytime change is required, some people will resist it"Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina continues her "Tough Choices" book tour at CNET Networks' offices in San Francisco. In an animated discussion with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber, Fiorina addresses her critics, defending her performance and outlining the challenges she...

Tags: Carly Fiorina, Tough Choices

Videos 2006-10-23

Carly Fiorina's Tough Choices

Last Thursday I sat down with Carly Fiorina for a video interview in our San Francisco studio. She has been on a tour for two weeks promoting her book, Tough Choices, and taking advantage of the occasion to defend her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. The timing of her books...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Carly Fiorina

Blog posts 2006-10-23

Carly Fiorina on sexism in the workplace

Trials and tribulations of being a female CEO in a man's worldCNET News.com's Neha Tiwari hears from Carly Fiorina about gender issues and her new book, "Tough Choices," released this month. Known for being outspoken, Fiorina talks extensively about the glass ceiling and other barriers.

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Videos 2006-10-20

What's in the future for Carly Fiorina?

From secretary to CEO and beyond, it's been a long rideThe author and former CEO of Hewlett-Packard talks with CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari about what's in the future for her and technology. Will she run for office? What piece of tech can she not live without? Find out here.

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Videos 2006-10-20

Carly Fiorina talks tech and business

The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard looks at today's tech industryFiorina, who served as HP's chief executive from 1999 to 2005, comments on tech policy as well as current corporate mergers. Fiorina is best known for merging Compaq with HP--a key factor in her departure from the company. CNET News.com's...

Tags: Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Videos 2006-10-20

Memoir tells Carly Fiorina's tale

Book exposes former HP CEO's softer sideCNET News.com's Neha Tiwari talks with Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and board member, about her new book, "Tough Choices." During her career, Fiorina was known as a fierce businesswoman; she opens up for the first time in her memoir, released in early...

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Videos 2006-10-20

If you could be HP's CEO for a day...

In his relatively new gig Grassroots Journalism, Dan Gillmor is developing a knack for calling out over-the-top excessiveness when it's begging to be called out. It's the main reason I follow Gillmor's blog. As the master aggregator and editorializer of financial impropriety, few people seem to cross borders (industries,...

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Blog posts 2005-04-07

Scott McNealy's Carly Fiorina moment?

Scott McNealy's Carly Fiorina moment?Don't think it will happenThey're winning back customers. What will be the barometre isn't whether they get back into profitability, it is whether they can continue long term profitability and revenue growth. They've gotten by over the years, after the dot-con flop, just by cutting...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Scott McNealy, Carly Fiorina

Discussion threads 2005-02-24

Scott McNealy's Carly Fiorina moment?

Charlie Cooper asks why Sun CEO Scott McNealy is still in the driver's seat despite what he termed a "dismal" performance for shareholders post-bubble. Coop comments: To be sure, McNealy is a co-founder and still owns more than 56 million shares. But my guess is the top institutional holders--Capital Research and Management Company, Barclays’...

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Blog posts 2005-02-23

Bruce Perens on Carly's ouster

It seems that everybody is talking about Carly Fiorina's rapid departure from HP. We should all be so lucky as to get the velvet boot from a company with a final paycheck of $21.1 million. My main interest in the end to Fiorina's tenure is the affect if any that...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.

Blog posts 2005-02-09

Fiorina's tenure in quotes

News.com put together a collection of quotes covering the period of Carly Fiorina's six-year reign at HP that show the roller coaster ride that came to a halt today.* >Progress reports "I think it's good, as the stock is showing. She has adequate respect for HP's past but also clearly the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Carly Fiorina

Blog posts 2005-02-09

Fortune on why Fiorina's big bet is failing

In a lengthy article Carol Loomis of Fortune [sub required] dissects HP. It's not a pretty picture of Fiorina or HP... In the midst of all the competitive pressures bearing down on her, and in the struggle of managing the unwieldy company she created, Carly Fiorina sometimes talks as if...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Carly Fiorina

Blog posts 2005-01-25

Fiorina: One foot out the door?

Unhappy with HP's uneven performance on Wall St., the company's board of directors is apparently reconsidering the scope of CEO Carly Fiorina's management duties. Though her job doesn't appear to be on the line, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the board has discussed giving three senior executives more...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.

Blog posts 2005-01-24

HP replaces three senior executives

HP replaces three senior executivesCarly Fiorina is the one that needs to go!Everything she has done has been bad for HP, so she blaimes the chronies under her. What do you want to bet that she put them there in the first place.DaveMiss estimate, change lower managementI notice that...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Digital rights management (DRM), Hewlett-Packard Co., Carly Fiorina, computer

Discussion threads 2004-08-12

Additional Resources

HP to reorganize printer business

HP to reorganize printer businessHP to reorganize printer business"Carly" must have done more damage than first realized. I felt that when she tried to hook up with AOL there would be trouble.

Tags: Printers, printer business, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS

On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about HP's purchase of EDS, Google's Friend Connect and the latest happenings in SaaS. First up, HP's big purchase of EDS has brought along a lot of Carly 2.0 analogies, but the argument doesn't hold up too...

Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?

Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?DoubtfulAs I noted in my response to Paul Murphy, this looks a lot more like an HP that's run out of ideas and feels bound to play the serial acquisition game to disguise the fact, and maybe have some new cash cows ready for...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

HP to Acquire EDS ?

HP to Acquire EDS ?The fake Steve Jobs quote wasn't needed.He was wrong for all the usual good reasons. Best of all, the urge to bloviate loudly ideas from the conventional wisdom within his set.But you're right.The Compaq merger might be considered a success by those who consider layoffs...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., merger, Compaq Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?

With the completion of its deal to buy EDS for $13.9 billion, Hewlett-Packard is about to become just as key to Microsoft's fate as IBM is to the fate of open source. How will Microsoft react? While Sun, Red Hat and a host of...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-13

HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies

HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....

Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2

Discussion threads 2008-05-13