How Hewlett-Packard lost its way - Fortune Tech

Excerpt from an extensive HP profile

"The employees' open contempt for the head of the company and Whitman's acknowledgment of their misery were signs of just how dire things had gotten inside the technology titan after a humiliating series of epic stumbles last year. Just in the few months before Whitman became CEO, there was the costly failed launch of a tablet computer, a mortifying public waffling over whether to spin off the company's giant personal computer business, and then the drumming-out of its third CEO in less than seven years."

How Hewlett-Packard lost its way - Fortune Tech