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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS

Fiorina Photo courtesy of Hewlett-Packard In the 1970s, after graduating from Stanford with a concentration in medieval history and philosophy, something happened to Carly Fiorina on her way to a successful... View Details
Keywords: HP; Hewlitt-Packard; Fiorina; Compaq; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 23 Sep 2015
  • News

Carly Fiorina is corporate culture incarnate

  • 21 May 2013
  • News

'Berating' CEOs Doesn't Solve Tax Problem: Fiorina

  • 17 Sep 2015
  • News

Carly Fiorina's Business Record Is At Least As Bad As Donald Trump's

  • February 2005 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Hewlett-Packard (A)

By: Rohit Deshpande and Seth Schulman
Since its controversial merger with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard had been under pressure by analysts and some stockholders to divest itself of its low-margin PC business. For CEO Carly Fiorina and others on HP's management team, however, PCs seemed integral to the company's... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Customer Focus and Relationships; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Infrastructure; Business Strategy; Price; Computer Industry
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges

By: Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode
We use the experience of Carly Fiorina as an introduction to the continued challenges faced by women in top leadership roles. Although Fiorina, on becoming CEO of Hewlett Packard in 1999, asserted that "there is not a glass ceiling," her memoir eight years later... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership; Perception; Behavior; Attitudes; Gender
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  • November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Hewlett-Packard Company: The War Within

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Jay W. Lorsch, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Eliot Sherman
In September 2006 it was revealed that the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) had been carrying out an extended investigation of its own employees, board members, and journalists outside the company. The investigation was launched in response to a series of leaks to the... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Communication Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Newspapers; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 16 Nov 2015
  • News

Sugar-Coated Capitalism Is No Free Market

  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

this same type of tension at Hewlett-Packard, the Silicon Valley technology giant. HP is famous for its values, known as the "HP Way." Employees saw the actions of former CEO Carly Fiorina in 2001-2002, including large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

our new knowledge-based enterprises. Perhaps Apple's John Scully should have remained at Pepsi; Kodak's George Fisher at Motorola; H-P's Carly Fiorina at Lucent; and Xerox's Richard Thoman at IBM. But as boards routinely bypass their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

investigation was launched in response to a series of leaks to the press that could only have come from highly placed members of the company. Fully understanding the context of the events of September, however, requires knowledge of board personalities and events that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges Authors:Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode Publication:Chap. 14 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

From Where We Stand

is not what she has done, but how she has done it. MAMONGAE MAHLARE Mamongae Mahlare (MBA 2004), marketing manager, SABMiller, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Maria Ramos, chief executive of Absa Group and Barclays Africa, Ann Fudge (MBA 1977), and Carly View Details