8 posts and columns on Ann Livermore

Yahoo’s Bartz Also Gets Fired From Fortune’s Powerful Women List, While HP’s Whitman Gets Hired

in Media on September 29, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT

It’s a tough life at the top, especially of a list.
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Another Day, Another Shake-Up at Hewlett-Packard

in News on July 11, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT

HP names a new head to run its personal systems unit for the Americas. But more importantly, Jon Rubinstein, former Palm CEO, will take over that unit’s product development. Both will report to Todd Bradley.
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HP’s Big Shakeup: Bocian and Mott Out; Livermore Steps Down, Joins Board

in News on June 13, 2011 at 1:27 pm PT

As we reported, Peter Bocian, chief administrative officer, is out, but so is CIO Randy Mott. Meanwhile, Ann Livermore is stepping down from her day-to-day duties and joining the board of directors.
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HP’s Own CEO Candidates Unlikely to Seek Freedom After Passover

in News on October 1, 2010 at 9:43 am PT

Hewlett-Packard’s decision to name Léo Apotheker as its new CEO hasn’t gone over particularly well with investors, who dragged the company’s stock into the mud this morning. At $40.50, HP shares are down 3.76 percent as I write this. So how is it going over internally, particularly with those execs who’d been internal candidates for the job?

Hewlett-Packard's Imminent CEO Choice Needs to (And Will) Be Internal

in News on September 17, 2010 at 11:51 am PT

Because this is a big CEO search in Silicon Valley, naturally the Hewlett-Packard board turned to star headhunter Jim Citrin of Spencer Stuart for help in finding the next leader for the tech giant. He should not have to look far, since sources close to the situation said it is likely an internal candidate will be chosen over a more high-profile outsider. The reason? As Maverick’s motto in the movie “Top Gun” goes: The need for speed. Top of list? Personal Systems Group hotshot Todd Bradley, pictured here headed to work on the 101.

HP Checks Its Heir Supply

in News on August 6, 2010 at 4:21 pm PT

Now that Mark Hurd has resigned as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, to whom will the company look to replace him? If HP’s directors are smart, they’ll give Apple’s Tim Cook a call, but realistically who are they likely to consider?

New from HP: The Pink Slip Jet 9000

in News on June 1, 2010 at 8:39 am PT

Hewlett-Packard currently has about 304,000 employees worldwide. Three years from now it will have 301,000. The company today said it will reduce its employee roster by 3,000 employees, or one percent of its workforce, over the next few years. Nine thousand workers will lose their jobs, with 6,000 new ones to be hired in the same period.
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Yahoo's Bartz (No. 8), Facebook's Sandberg (No. 22), Google's Mayer (No. 44) and More Techies Make Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women List

in News on September 11, 2009 at 12:15 am PT

Time Inc.’s Fortune magazine–which never met a list it did not like to make–had a solid group of women tech types on its “50 Most Powerful Women 2009” roster, the annual survey that it posted yesterday. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made the Top Ten this year, clocking in at No. 8, along with a lot of other tech-savvy women in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
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