Exactly What HP Didn't Need Right Now

摘要

Hewlett-packard's boardroom scandal isn't likely to kill its recent momentum. But last week showed the risk: When private in-vestigators hired by your chairwoman use shady tactics to snoop on fellow board members, it's tough to get attention for your new line of PCs. California's attorney general is looking into whether HP broke the law when private investigators the company hired engaged in "pretexting," in this case, pretending to be an account holder to access third-party phone records. The investigators obtained the records of board members and reporters as they looked into leaks to the media.