Not true.
Im not a big Carly fan and I definitely think she was not the best pic for the job, but she took over in 1999, just months before the Dot Com boom imploded and did a very good job steering HP through the storm.
A lot of companies did not make it through and no longer exist.
She laid the foundation for the growth that HP has seen in the last decade.
HP had a very strong old school corporate culture, some of which were negative baggage in the fast paced world of the Digital Revolution, the economics of computers, printers and electronic devices as high volume mainstream consumer products and realities of Post Cold War world including the ride of Pacific Rim countries in the electronics manufacturing world.
Carly worked hard to change the HP culture to re align it with the brave new world we are in.
One of the HP corporate culture problems was strong resistance to change.
Carly fought hard to change that culture.
HP fought back.
Carly lost.
She was right.
Yes, Carly fought hard to change the HP culture.
She fought hard enough that they violated their own corporate rules to give her tens of millions of dollars to get rid of her.
How is this not a “Clintonian” form of self-serving actions, and how is this a “victory” in terms of conservative principles?