HP chairman apologises, promises to go
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Dunn-leading HP chairman Patricia Dunn 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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Piling it on HP today released a message from CEO Mark Hurd that vaguely addresses the company's ongoing spy scandal. The missive serves more as an advertisement than a real confrontation with the issues affecting HP.â¦
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The chairman of Hewlett Packard is stepping down amid controversy over a probe into leaks at the firm.
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PALO ALTO, California  - Hewlett-Packard Co.   HPQ.N Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd said he had approved   an e-mail ruse to track down boardroom leaks, admitting for the   first time his involvement in a scandal that also on Friday   forced out the company's chairman.
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Tony Blair will publicly apologise to one of the Guildford Four families, the Secretary of State says.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard's executive vice president of global operations, Gilles Bouchard, will leave the company at the end of October. The news came Tuesday immediately before HP announced that ChairmanÂ Patricia Dunn will step down. Bouchard's departure comes at aÂ difficult time for HP. Dunn faces questions from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and a congressional committee. The questions relate to the way in which details of phone calls made by board members and journalists were obtained during an internal investigation into boardroom leaks regarding the departure of former HP Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina. On Tuesday, HP announced that company CEO Mark Hurd will succeed Dunn, who will remain chairman through the companyâs Jan. 18, 2007, board meeting. Meanwhile, Hurd announced Bouchard's decision to leave in an e-mail sent to all employees late Monday, adding that Bouchard will remain in post until Oct. 31. In June, HP announced plans toÂ axe the global operations organizationÂ that Bouchard heads in an effort to simplify its operating model, folding it back into the company's three main business units: Imaging and Printing Group, Personal Systems Group and Technology Solutions Group. Bouchard's work leading that transition has been "outstanding," with the majority of the work completed in the third quarter, Hurd wrote in his e-mail. The closure of the global operations group, where Bouchard managed HP's worldwide supply chain and customer-facing operations activities, is part of aÂ broader reorganization of the companyÂ began in July 2005. That process began with the elimination of the central service unit responsible for enterprise sales, the Customer Solutions Group. Staff and activities from that group were also redeployed to the company's three main business units. Bouchard joined the company in 1989, working in its printer business. He later took charge of merging HP's supply chain with that of Compaq when the two companies joined. Before concentrating on global operations, Bouchard had an additional responsibility as the company's chief information officer, charged with simplifying HP's IT infrastructure. In that role, he was responsible for a migration of the company's ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. Then CEO Fiorina said in August 2004 that problems with that migration had contributed to the company'sÂ failure to meet financial targetsÂ in that year's third fiscal quarter.
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HP says it will cooperate with a request from a U.S. House subcommittee questioning  why CEO Mark Hurd sold HP stock just before a boardroom spying scandal broke in September.
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The board of Hewlett-Packard Co.  HPQ.N discussed breaking up the No. 2 computer maker three  times in the past, yet each time decided to keep it intact,  Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said on Tuesday, defending her  strategy for the company.
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HP's chairman will step down following the company's January 2007 board meeting as a result of the press leak investigation she launched and the techniques used, which both the state of California and the U.S. Government are investigating.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard board of directors took no action at a special Sunday meeting and will reconvene late Monday to continueÂ discussions about the scandalÂ that has occupied the company over the past week. The board held a teleconference Sunday morning for several hours, according to a brief company statement issued Sunday afternoon, to discuss reports that outside investigators, acting on behalf of the board,Â obtained phone recordsÂ of directors and journalists to trace the source of information leaks regarding board meetings. The investigators' tactic of disguising their true identity in order to gain access to customer records, called "pretexting," may be in violation of the law and the California Attorney General's office is investigating the case. HP gave no reason in its statement for the move to adjourn Sunday's meeting to Monday. HP Board Chairman Patricia Dunn has been criticized for launching the investigation, including calls for her resignation. Dunn said she was "appalled" that the investigators engaged in pretexting but said that she was not told details of how they conducted their probe. While she has said that she won't resign on her own, she would step down if the board requested her to do so. The investigation determined that HP director George Keyworth was the source of a story CNet Networks Inc. story in January about HP's business strategy. When Keyworth was asked to resign from the board in May, he refused. But board member Thomas Perkins, a renowned Silicon Valley venture capitalist, resigned in protest over the way in which the investigation was conducted. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd, in a letter to company employees released late Friday, urged them to keep focused on their work. "The media coverage and speculation regarding the recent actions of the HP Board ... have nothing to do with the strategy or operations of Hewlett-Packard," he said. Hurd, who emphasized that he was speaking as CEO and not as a board member, added: "There has been a long history of leaking company information with the HP board that clearly needs to be resolved."
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HP still has cost-cutting to do to achieve operational efficiency, CEO Mark Hurd told the financial community.
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HP CEO Mark Hurd is scheduled to speak at the company's large user and partner event, the HP Technology Forum, Sept. 17 as the company confronts a scandal over boardroom press leaks.
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Peter Hain apologises "for any embarrassment" caused over donations but says he is "to get on with my cabinet jobs".
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HP exec Mark Hurd reaches out to employees as the company decides how to react to this week's boardroom pretexting scandal.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N Chief   Executive Mark Hurd will testify to a House subcommittee on the   company's leak probe, HP said on Thursday, hours after the   panel's top Democrat said he should appear at a hearing.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N Chief   Executive Mark Hurd told lawmakers on Thursday there were no   excuses for a probe of boardroom leaks that led investigators   to obtain private telephone records deceptively.
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Hurd knows best HP's CEO Mark Hurd plans to stick with what he knows best: cost cutting.â¦