HP CEO Carly Fiorina to Step Down

ewwhite was the first of a tidal wave of readers to submit links telling us that HP Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina will step down, effective immediately. Chief Financial Officer Robert Wayman will be interim CEO, Hewlett-Packard said in a Business Wire statement today. Patricia Dunn will be chairwoman. Not much else in the story.

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Re:Ding dong, the witch is gone!

[Dun Malg]

I dunno what the time scale was like but many of the later laser printers are also fantastic. I just bought a Laserjet 2100 because they are the low-end professional printer, supposed to be good for 10,000 pages a month and I believe it because I've used them in office environments more than once. Its big brother, the 4050, is an absolutely fantastic printer.

2100's are great. I have one as well. Notice how they don't make them anymore...

Re:more info

[jschottm]

I was not able to get a position as a faculty member, become full professor

Most of the math majors I know going into teaching. They're often brilliant people and help create the next generations of engineers etc., but in general they're just part of a self-sustaining group of teachers. Which isn't a bad thing. Some go on to do things such as physics or computer science work, but generally they're so abstracted that their work has little practical value. I certainly wouldn't want the vast majority of those brilliant people running a company.

It is fashionable to berate university education.

There's nothing wrong with university education, but is not the end-all and be-all of whether someone can do a job well, particularly a management position that must bridge the technical with human resource management and customer relations. A math or CS degree does little to help with that. A business degree (these days) prolly doesn't help much either. What matters is having been in the trenches and done the job interacting with workers and client. You can read and study about certain things all you want, but until you actually do it, you'll never get good at it. One of the best technical managers I worked under had a BA in English literature and an MS in Early English Plays. Whether he'd studied math or English in college would have made little difference in his performance - what mattered was that he understood the problem domain, had the charisma to work with people, and kept people happy. Diffy-Q won't help you with that. Many of the best sysadmins I know have no school background in computers, although Physics is a common one.