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Five Questions for HP’s New CEO Meg Whitman and Chairman Ray Lane

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 23, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO Meg Whitman and Chairman Ray Lane talk about the road ahead for one of the world’s biggest technology companies.

Hewlett-Packard Says Goodbye to PCs, webOS

Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 18, 2011 at 12:25 pm PT

The company also confirms talks with Autonomy. HP is going to look very different soon.

Mark Hurd Really Wants to Keep the Jodie Fisher Letter Private

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 28, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

Shareholders suing HP want to make public the letter that cost Hurd his job as CEO. He disagrees, and has asked a judge to let him become a party to the lawsuit.

Mark Hurd Doesn't Want You to Read the Letter That Cost Him His Job

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 22, 2010 at 11:02 am PT

Understandable. But would it really be so bad?

HP Networking Head: "People Are Tired of Paying for Cisco"

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 22, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

Marius Haas doesn’t do small jobs. During his five-year stint as head of corporate strategy for Hewlett-Packard, he was the one who oversaw the massive acquisition of IT services firm EDS in 2008. Now as head of HP Networking he has a job that is no less daunting: Wrestling with Cisco Systems.

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.

New from HP: The Pink Slip Jet 9000

John Paczkowski 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.

How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in News on May 30, 2010 at 1:22 pm PT

No position in a company is more important than the CEO, and as a result, no job gets more scrutiny. Sadly, little of this analysis benefits CEOs, as most of the discussions happen behind their backs. This post is a step in the opposite direction. By describing how Andreessen Horowitz evaluates CEOs, I am at the same time describing what I think the job of the CEO is.

The Case for the Fat Start-Up

Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in News on March 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to “Cut spending. Cut fat. Preserve capital.”

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