Also, the patent issue is stupid as well. Patents can be bought. And very likely HP did no more innovating. What they did is increase their legal staff. Engineers with lawyers hovering over them can produce a million patents. But it slows down the innovation process while they have to describe every piece of every new product to a patent lawyer who misrepresents it to the US patent office. Too get more patents you do not hire more engineers, you hire more lawyers.
Carly did fine at HP. It was a tough job. And like Michael Eisner at Disney or Lee Iacocca at Ford, she had a constant fight with the founders family who also were the biggest shareholders. Eisner and Iacocca also lost to the offspring of the founders. That did not make them bad executives.
Ive been on several boards family and start ups and currently serve on an advisory board for large commercial loans on a local bank I invested in 10 years ago
It’s unusual to fire a CEO doing a great job regardless of board politics
HP revenue went up because she bought a Compaq which was a failure in itself
Profit went down decline revenue going up and the workforce slashed ....the latter causing issues
She had the reputation as very caustic and ambitious and not liked or respected and if you lose money then you’re done
She lasted longer than she should because she’s a girl
HP stock went up 7-10% on news of her firing
No you cannot manipulate financials to someone who knows how to look at them
I pay folks to help me with that and nothing gets by them
This notion she was going great but got fired anyhow is poppycock no offense
She got 21 million in severance
If she was doing so well and they needed to push her out for some Hollswood political motive even though she was making money for the shareholders it would have been much higher for a company the size of HP
she has to parse this
Trump on the other hand doesn’t really have to and trying to explain is lost on the low info voter
He almost went broke for reaching too far and Indian casinos coming online
He recovered large
Fiorina did not
She defeated the conservative in a GOP primary and lost to whack job
She’s only there cause she’s a chick
Fired and a lost election and hints of Lucent resume
A man would not be on the stage
Nor would a white brain surgeon either for that mater