HP chair: Board members want her to stay
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Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn said Friday that several of her fellow board members want her to remain on the job despite a criminal investigation into her efforts to plug a media leak.
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(InfoWorld) - Like a good friend who has just gotten out of a terrible relationship, Hewlett-Packard seemed to be on the rebound and all the happier for it in recent months. After the departure of controversial CEO Carly Fiorina, the company has as of late shown newfound confidence and focus under new CEO Mark Hurd. But allâs still not well in the higher echelons of HP, as revealed in a filing the company made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The sudden and unexpected resignation of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Thomas Perkins from HPâs board of directors in May turned into a full-blown scandal last week, spawning law enforcement and SEC investigations and a PR nightmare for HP. At the center of the controversy is a legally and ethically questionable internal investigation of leaks of confidential company information to the media dating back to 2005. According to a copy of a letter from Perkins to the HP board explaining his sudden resignation, and republished on thesmokinggun.comâs Web site (a sure sign, if ever there was one, that youâre in the PR doghouse), HP hired outside companies to obtain personal phone records of board members using âpretextingâ (thatâs âsocial engineeringâ to you and me), in which a private investigator impersonated board members to obtain details of private phone company billing statements. In his letter, Perkins says he has proof that his own phone records were âhackedâ in the investigation. Those investigations ultimately fingered George Keyworth, an HP director since 1986, as the source of information about board deliberations and other confidential information, which were leaked to the media without authorization. Keyworth acknowledged he had leaked information at a board meeting on May 18 but refused the boardâs request to step down. Perkins announced his own resignation at that meeting, citing âpersonal frustrationâ with board Chairwoman Patricia Dunn over the handling of the leak investigation. In the meantime, the dispute has spilled over into the public domain. The attorney general of California asked HP to supply information about the leak investigation. The SEC has also been in touch over the 8-K filing HP made when Perkins resigned. HP believes its disclosures in May were âaccurate and complete.â In an Aug. 31 meeting, HPâs board of directors determined that Keyworth shouldnât be nominated for another term on the board.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board will file a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, notifying investors that the computer maker's board will refuse to nominate one director for re-election because he leaked confidential information to the media.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today that Patricia Dunn will be replaced as HP chairwoman in January by CEO Mark Hurd. The move follows a scandal related to leaks from the company's board of directors.
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PALO ALTO, California  - Hewlett-Packard   Co.HPQ.N said on Friday that Chairman Patricia Dunn has   resigned effective immediately, as pressure mounts on the   computer maker over the methods it used to investigate   boardroom leaks.
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PALO ALTO, California  - Hewlett-Packard   Co.HPQ.N Chairman Patricia Dunn resigned as a director on   Friday as the embattled computer maker unveiled new details of   the boardroom leak probe, including the role of chief executive   Mark Hurd.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors has leapt out of the mainstream with the recently disclosed scandal that's set members against each other, but changes over the past several years have made conflict on boards more likely.
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Dunny flushed Patricia Dunn has not survived the HP spy scandal â a turn of events that everyone except HP saw as inevitable long ago. Dunn today resigned from HP's board, elevating CEO Mark Hurd to the Chairman role.â¦
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors discussed shifting some day-to-day responsibilities from chief executive Carly Fiorina to other executives in an effort to improve the technology giant's performance, according to a published report yesterday.
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Hewlett-Packard's HPQ.N board met   on Sunday and plans to meet again on Monday, leaving open the   question of chairman Patricia Dunn's fate as she comes under   fire for her role in ordering a controversial board   investigation into media leaks.
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By Paul Elias  SAN FRANCISCO  --  Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board adjourned an emergency phone conference Sunday without announcing whether it would oust Chairwoman Patricia Dunn for ordering an investigation that may have used illegal means to spy on colleagues and journalists.
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At a women's conference, the former CEO looks to her shared history with HP and dismisses talk of today's turmoil.
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A Hewlett-Packard Co.  director said on Wednesday Chief Executive Mark Hurd has the full support of the board and that there have been no discussions whether Hurd might resign amid the controversy over the company's investigation into boardroom leaks.
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Hewlett-Packard acknowledged that on three occasions it considered breaking up, but each time the board unanimously decided to keep the company together.
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Dunn-leading Patricia Dunn, chairman of HP, will leave the position in January next year and be replaced by current CEO Mark Hurd. Dunn's position has been shaky since her role in the snooping scandal became public - Dunn hired private detectives to spy on directors and reporters.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
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Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn will step down in January and be succeeded by CEO Mark Hurd