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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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 Solis Ms. Gasparro N.J.H.S. Essay 29th March 2013 National Junior Honor Society is a great opportunity for me; something that I am really excited to be apart of. I’ve been tossing and turning in bed for the past month wondering what to write or how to prepare myself for such an extraordinary honor to become apart of the NJHS. All through my life I’ve thought of myself as a leader‚ never a follower. I would love to be apart of this establishment to share my thoughts and ideas for
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is primarily based on the issues related with potential acquisition of Compaq by HP. Case tells about circumstances of computer hardware industry at 2001‚market was highly competitive‚ frequent and fast product introduction in market ‚continuous improvements in product/price characteristics market needs quick customization in products and service offerings to being profitable. Through differentiation and cost leadership strategy how IBM and Dell not only survived but earned a huge profit Compaq had
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overseeing the interest of the owners and the profitability of the company very seriously when they vote to fire Fiorina. The board realized that is was important for the company to have as CEO someone who could move faster than her to recruit and retain talent‚ boost revenues and increase profits. 3. Was Carly Fiorina treated fairly by the board? Why or why not? In a way CEO Ms. Fiorina was not treaty fairly by the board. The constant leak of the information serves as proof on the unethical behavior
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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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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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The candidates I have picked for comparison are Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump. Both are running as Republican’s in the 2017 presidential election. Both candidates are doing well in the polls. Fiorina is second in the polls right behind Trump at first. Fiorina is a former business CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Trump is a real estate developer‚ TV star and a successful businessman. Where both candidates are Republican’s they will agree on some topic but will differ in the way they agree and the way they
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