Memo To Mark Hurd

摘要

Congratulations, and welcome to the Big Leagues. It must feel pretty good to have beaten out all those better-known names—although you have undoubt edly got wind of what the Silicon Valley digerati think about your being tapped to become the next CEO of Hewlett-Packard. They say that restoring the $80 bn outfit to glory may be an impossible job for anyone, let alone someone who has never held a position outside the much-tinier NCR Corp, a $6 bn computer company located in sleepy Dayton.