Can Anyone Save HP?

摘要

Carleton S. Fiorina's last stand at Hewlett-Packard Co. took place, aptly enough, at an airport hotel. For six years the jet-setting CEO had flown the globe, smiling and perfectly coiffed even as she stepped off of red-eye flights. Jet lag never slowed down her delivery or muddled her message, which described the sprawling HP as nothing less than the beating heart of the tech industry. Yet on a damp Sunday evening in Chicago, as much of the nation focused on the Super Bowl, the 50-year-old Fiorina was embroiled in urgent talks with her board at a conference room at the O'Hare Hyatt, says an HP insider. The next day, Feb. 7, she was fired.