Can Anyone Save HP?
Seminar
March 24, 2005
In today's world of corporate America, mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, scandals, immoral business practices, poor management, etc., are issues we hear and read about everyday. For the most part, it seems that the scandals and negative issues over shadow the beneficial and positive activities in the business world since they are more often than not given more media attention. For instance, immoral business conduct within ENRON, and insider trading issues that swirled around Martha Stewart were headline news for months. CEO's aren't safe from the media barrage either. Michael Eisner, former CEO of the Disney Corp. was in charge of the corporate mega-giant and wanted to make the company so over-diversified only out of self interest. By doing so, he thought he would be issuing himself job security, because for Disney to find a successor, that was as knowledgeable about all of Disney's holdings lime Eisner was would be an impossible task. And for Disney, finding a successor will be difficult, yes, but they are doing everything in their power to remove Eisner completely from the company for his shortcomings. With that said, there has been another high profile CEO that has been in the news an awful lot lately, and that's Carly Fiorina.
Carly Fiorina made headline news many years ago, in a good light, by becoming the first woman CEO of a major corporate company. Life for Fiorina couldn't get much better. She was in control of one of the world's largest imaging and printing giants, traveling all over the globe, and presented herself as this very well educated, and highly successful business woman. In th ...