Cathie Lesjak

HP CEO Whitman Earned One Dollar Plus $16 Million in 2011

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 3 at 7:27 am PT

CEO Meg Whitman may have taken only a one-dollar salary upon taking the job. But her stock-based compensation totaled more than $16 million last year.

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

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

It’s a tough life at the top, especially of a list.

The Meg Whitman Era at HP Begins With a Conference Call (Audio)

Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 22, 2011 at 3:51 pm PT

Hewlett-Packard’s new director and new executive chairman faced the public for the first time on a conference call with analysts. Hear some highlights.

HP Analysts Like Losing Léo, Not Sold on Whitman as CEO

Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 22, 2011 at 9:59 am PT

Analysts covering HP all seem united in their approval of its apparent move to oust CEO Léo Apotheker. They’re a lot less enthusiastic about his replacement.

More Securities Lawyers Circling HP

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 16, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

One lawsuit is filed and no fewer than four securities law firms are circling HP, “investigating claims” that the company’s management made false claims leading up to last month’s sudden strategic shift.

HP CFO Cathie Lesjak on webOS

Our intention was to solidify webOS as the clear No. 2 platform for tablets, but with such a young ecosystem and poorly received hardware we were unable to achieve our target.

Hewlett-Packard CFO Cathie Lesjak

HP Names Ex-SAP Chief Apotheker as CEO

John Paczkowski in News on September 30, 2010 at 1:20 pm PT

Hewlett-Packard has finally named a new CEO and, despite our prediction that it would choose an internal candidate, the company instead looked to an outsider. On Thursday afternoon, HP named Léo Apotheker–former CEO of SAP–as its new chief executive officer. And, in a jab at Oracle–which hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd after his ouster–it tapped Ray Lane, a former president and COO at Oracle, as its non-executive chairman of the board.

HP Says Many Good Candidates Are Willing to Follow Hurd

John Paczkowski in News on September 8, 2010 at 2:51 pm PT

Hewlett-Packard’s search for a CEO to replace Mark Hurd is going better than expected. That’s the word from interim CEO Cathie Lesjak, who says the company’s executive search committee is knee-deep in a good pool of applicants.

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Mark Hurd “Left HP in Great Shape” With “Winning Strategy”

John Paczkowski in News on August 19, 2010 at 2:15 pm PT

How’s HP doing without former CEO Mark Hurd? Just fine, apparently. Asked what sort of state Hurd left the company in during a media call Thursday afternoon, Cathie Lesjak, Hewlett Packard interim CEO, said it was good. “Mark Hurd left our organization with an extremely strong strategy and a talented management team that’s excited to execute on it,” she said. “He left HP in great shape. We think of ourselves as a team on a mission….When you have a winning strategy, I don’t see motivation to change it. It’s something we’ve been building for the last few years. It’s a well-thought-out strategy that’s working very well for us.” Meanwhile …

Hurd on the Street: HP CEO Resigns After Sexual Harassment Inquiry

John Paczkowski in News on August 6, 2010 at 1:12 pm PT

HP CEO Mark Hurd once advised, “Anytime you take a job, think to yourself what it would be like on your last day on the job, and what you’d like to say about your tenure on that day, and work your way backward.” Bet he didn’t envision his last day quite this way.

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