Karl hope you got more money and another candidate.
Stockholders lost their money and Carly got 100 Million
Don’t forget Lucent. First hand account from tonight in NH.
They will be coming out of woodwork now that she is “getting better known “!
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See if you can make a clip of it here. The Fiorina-Lucent part starts at 31 minutes and 06 seconds. There is a way to make a clip but not from my phone
http://www.c-span.org/video/?328138-1/donald-trump-town-hall-meeting-rochester-new-hampshire&live
Let me explain a few things these articles never do. One, the PC industry was split at that time between HP, Compaq, Packard Bell, and others who built standard configurations and pumped them into the distribution channel. If technology or even operating systems changed to favor different feature sets, the already-built PCs piled up in warehouses, unsold. On the other side was DELL with it’s amazingly powerful “build to order” model that gave customers the ability to “have it their way”.
Public companies like HP are under constant pressure to show quarterly improvement in earnings or the stock price drops as shareholders invest elsewhere. That was the scenario facing the HP board when they decided to acquire Compaq, which Fiorina as CEO was responsible for executing. The problem was, it not only created a larger version of the type of PC company that wasn’t working very well, but it added the thin margins of the PC business with the very high margins of HPs’ existing printer and ink business with the result that sales grew but profit actually went down.
Anyone who thinks Fiorina did this on her own has no clue about how corporations work. It was a calculated decision that the added revenue would buy enough time to move to a DELL-like model with a more valuable stock price, but that is not how it turned out, and Fiorina was fired. If this was a “disaster”, she may have been in the wheelhouse of the Titanic but she wasn’t alone.
Finally, what about Agilent, which was spun out of HP in 1999 and subsequently shed the component business (Avago) and the legacy Test and Measurement business that Grandpa Dave started in his garage in 1939 (Keysight Technologies). You have to add them to today’s HP computer company in order to get the same picture of the company as when Fiorina came on board.
Interesting to see the anti Fiorina articles appearing the day after the debate. I can only assume these are from Bush supporters attempting to take her down a few notches.
So now we have Bush supporters targeting Fiorina. Is this pure luck, or did Trump just play some sort of 3D chess move; elevate her visibility, and then let her and Bush pummel each other via the MSM. It’s like a zero cost negative campaign to take her out.
She’s a weak candidate and has zero chance of being nominated. That is all.
by almost any measure you choose: political candidacy (boxer and worse the shoving out of chuck devore and ruination of many a tea party candidate), business acumen, leadership, results, even the stockholder value she was hired to pump up ( after training in in the corrupt hot-mess at at&t) at lucent and hp. fiorina is an abject failure.
fiorina was hired as a spinoff jocky. that’s it. wall street wanted to dismantle hp (a beautiful co) and feed it to the stockholders. ergo she was hired to break it up and spin off agilent the heart of the co and hewlett and packard’s great American vision.
the fact that anyone in the gop supports her goes to show how clueless many are in the gop.
Let’s not forget that many companies went out of business in the same time period.
Her demeanor is foul, condescending, arrogant and attempts to speak like a founding father. Very phony.
Snarly Carly! It fits.
I thought Trump defended Fiorina saying she was fired unfairly?
Yeah, this was long known. She is a disaster.
It's very odd, all those who fail routinely fail and who perform badly, want to be the boss and control everyone and everything.
Throw Hillary into that crowd along with most of D.C. as well.
There is something very scary about the types of most of these people who drawn into government. Based on history, I can assure you it's not to benefit those who put them there.
