As Hewlett-Packard CEO, Fiorina Pushed Ahead — and Paid a Price
The University of Pennsylvania campus auditorium was half-empty when GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina strode onstage, smiling and waving with the same corner-office charisma she had showcased in hundreds of speeches around the world. The former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard had been invited to give a keynote address in November to a conference on American business — a topic she knew well, having spearheaded one of the...
Hewlett-Packard Set To Split Into 2 Firms
San Francisco — One of the nation’s most storied tech companies will split in two this weekend, another casualty of seismic shifts in the way people use technology — and big-company sluggishness in responding. Hewlett-Packard was an early pioneer of what became the model for Silicon Valley startups: Founded in 1939 by two Stanford graduates in a Palo Alto, Calif., garage, HP was long celebrated for its engineering know-how and...