Hewlett-Packard Under Carly Fiorina‚ and After Her Overview; Carly Fiorina became first outsider CEO of Hewlett Packard in July 1999. Three years later in May 2002‚ under her management HP merged with Compaq Computer. While this merging period she had faced various problems such as goverment regulators in both US and Europe. Carly Fiorina got her bachelor at Stanford‚ received MBA at University of Maryland and MS at MIT. She had worked for AT&T and Lucent Technologies for 20 years.Fiorina is known
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Factors contributing to Carly Fiorina’s meteoric rise: Carly Fiorina lead a Fortune 20 company and was actually the first woman to do this. This ranking was based on the importance of a woman’s work in the global environment‚ her influence in the company‚ arc of her career and her influence on mass culture and society. Quickly rising through the ranks of AT&T and Lucent Technologies‚ Carly Fiorina became one of the most powerful businesswomen in the United States. She was the group president of
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are all words that remind people of Carly Fiorina. Carly Fiorina once said this inspirational statement about military men and women. “I would start by respecting and honoring by lifting up those brave men and women who serve us abroad and serve us at home‚ because we need their service and we should thank them every day.” The military is very personal to Carly because her father was in the army. Carly is an independent‚ strong‚ and a great Christian woman. Carly is independent because she survived
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Carly Fiorina: Is she Helping or Hurting HP? A Leadership Analysis presented to Dr. Walter Makovoz of National University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration table of contents Carly Fiorina: Is she Helping or Hurting HP? 1 table of contents 2 Abstract 3 Introduction 3 Leadership 5 disruptive innovation 6 The HP – Compaq Merger 7 Recommendations 8 Conclusion 9 References 10 Abstract This paper will show how one
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was the fact it mentioned that HP was under managed. In 2001‚ HP had 84‚400 employees while Carly Fiorina was Chief Executive Officer ¹. This fact lets me know that there should have been various levels of management from the CEO on down to the first level employees. In order for a company to be successful there has to be a vision and direction should be provided to carry out that vision. As CEO‚ Carly Fiorina took care of being the face of the company but neglected to provide that much needed direction
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then HP’s culture had over the years translated into a consensus-style culture that was proving to be a sharp disadvantage in the fast-growing Internet business era. HP needed a new leader to cope with rapidly changing industry trends. new CEO Carly Fiorina tried to take some drastic steps to improve the financial performance of HP‚ which proved to be a major departure from HP’s long cherished culture. HP at Cultural Crossroads Relevance of this case study: Importance of Organizational
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5. Were the changes initiated by Fiorina justified? At the time when Fiorina took over HP‚ she faced many problems‚ for instance stagnating technology‚ losing market share to competitors. Many expected her to help the company. She made many changes on structure and policies of the company. Although the overall outcomes of her changes are not as good as expected‚ the changes initiated by her were still justified because the situation of the company drove her focus more on outcome than people. One
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Pugh November 28‚ 2010 Question - #1 Discuss the three most serious problems you have identified in the case. Defend why you think they are the most serious. One of the serious problems Hewlett-Packard faced was poor management. Carly Fiorina provided no concrete direction for the company and staff. The vision she implemented for the company digital‚ virtual‚ mobile and personal was very vague. Because of this no one really knew if it was really working for the company. With
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Beating Dell: Why HP Acquired Compaq In 2001‚ Hewlett-Packard (now HP) shocked the business world when its former CEO‚ Carly Fiorina‚ announced that rival computer-maker Compaq had agreed to be acquired by HP. The announcement came at the end of a year in which slumping demand and strong competition from Dell had buffeted both companies. The merged company would have annual revenues of about $87.4 billion‚ putting it in the same league as IBM‚ and would be able to provide customers with a full range
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three most serious problems you have identified in the case. Defend why you think they are the most serious. The most serious problems I identified in the case would be the lack of management‚ the structure of management and the reward system. Carly Fiorina’s strategic vision had been underutilized‚ vague and no one knew if the vision was being executed. Employees within the company could not follow the company’s vision and no motivation followed with the employees. With the vision being not
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