Forbes Now Thinks Carly Saved HP

Justen writes "It's been nearly a year and a half since Carly Fiorina was fired as CEO and chairman at HP. Now, Forbes is saying Mark Hurd and HP today are reaping the success of the strategies she developed and decisions Carly made. 'Fiorina's demise was chalked up to bad execution of bad strategic moves, most notably the 2002 Compaq acquisition. But Hurd has always said there was nothing wrong with Fiorina's strategy. He seems to be hewing close to it. He rejiggered the org chart but said he'll keep the company together instead of breaking it up along premerger lines, as Fiorina's loudest critics suggested doing.' Forbes adds that HP's revenues, profit, and market share have held steady or improved since Hurd came aboard, but asks: 'Whose results are these? You could make a case that they are as much Fiorina's as Hurd's. The effects of strategic moves like buying Compaq stretch out over years.' So, which is it? Did Carly kill the HP way? Or did she save what was left of it?"

Re:wtf?

[Ohreally_factor]

You think that's bad? What about "Mark Hurd".

It should be GNU/Mark Hurd.

Re:HP DL385

[fkx]

You'll probably have to find out what company he left HP for if you want to congratulate him...

Re:Perhaps both?

[elmo1618]

Wasn't Carly Fiorina the author of the long term strategy at Lucent in the late 80's early 90's. Worked real well.

HP is so vain......

[pharwell]

They probably think this post is about them.

Oh wait, that was Carly Simon.....

Re:Forbes was always biased towards Carly

[Maserati]

Somewhere in the 20s there you should have resubmitted the original draft to see if you got different notes back. That could have been hilarious.