I don't know much about Carly Fiorina or HP, but this page does nothing to convince me that she's not right: If you're going to end up laying off 30,000 people (out of 300,000 or so) after the dot com bubble burst, wouldn't sooner and faster be better?
I don't really understand the point of this page though. Running a business entails making difficult decisions that can hurt people. So does running a country?
I personally think laying off people at the time was the right decision.
However, buying a company with an identical product portfolio like Compaq, with the reason 'we wanted to get into consulting' was stupid, when for the same price HP could have purchased Accenture - even if Accenture hadn't grown, it still would have been a much better choice.
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[ 200 ms ] story [ 154 ms ] threadI don't really understand the point of this page though. Running a business entails making difficult decisions that can hurt people. So does running a country?
However, buying a company with an identical product portfolio like Compaq, with the reason 'we wanted to get into consulting' was stupid, when for the same price HP could have purchased Accenture - even if Accenture hadn't grown, it still would have been a much better choice.