Life at HP under Carly
A former Imaging Systems Lab engineer’s view of life at HP Laboratories under Carly in Technology Review.
I remember the first time she walked into the Hewlett-Packard labs. She said that our new company slogan was “Invent.” Then she told us that the technology industry would never again be as exciting and profitable as it was in the ’90s. That we’d all need to grow up now and face that fact.
At the end of the article:
To me, this rabid fixation on short-term profits is a bigger threat than outsourcing — it is killing our ability to make astonishing things
See also this earlier article in Tech Review.
Just after the official announcement came down that CEO Carly Fiorina would be sacked, corks were popped and bottles were opened.
and this week’s Business Week article on Dick Hackborn and the HP Board.
Tags: noneBut within Fiorina’s first year on the job, Hackborn fretted in board meetings about three issues, say sources: Fiorina’s refusal to delegate operations, her tendency to make bold promises, and the exodus of trusted execs. “As Carly drove strong people out of the company, Dick got quieter and quieter” in HP circles, says longtime colleague Bob Frankenberg, who helped Hackborn build HP’s PC business in the early ’90s
