Saturday, September 11, 2010

Talking Business - H.P.’s Board Blunders, in Hurd’s Dismissal and After - NYTimes.com

Check the link below for more on “The Most Inept Board in America”

What I’ve been hearing this week is that the board felt it had no choice but to sue Mr. Hurd — both to put him on notice and to send a strong message to the rest of the company. But if this case gets laughed out of court, as I suspect it will, the message is going to be a bit different from what the board intends. The whole world will know Mr. Hurd walked away with $40 million of H.P. shareholders’ money, and joined a multibillion-dollar competitor with H.P. in its sights — and there wasn’t a thing H.P. could do to stop him. Confidence-inspiring, this ain’t.

Talking Business - H.P.’s Board Blunders, in Hurd’s Dismissal and After - NYTimes.com

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