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Why HP Should Sell Its PC Business To Save It

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anywhere-but-here dept.

packetrat writes "Hewlett Packard may not be in danger as a company, but its future in the PC business is in doubt, thanks to former CEO Leo Apotheker's maneuvers to turn HP into IBM. This article at Ars says Meg Whitman should go ahead and sell off the PC business — mostly because HP's management is so inept, it would likely do better without them. Agilent seems to be doing okay since it was spun off in 1999, but HP may have spun off its soul in the process."

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  1. HP Didn't Spin Off Its Soul by 14erCleaner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's soul was eaten by Carly.

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    1. Re:HP Didn't Spin Off Its Soul by inviolet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's soul was eaten by Carly.

      Some will consider you flippant or flamebait, but I think you've spoke more truth than you'll get credit for. The leader's personality percolates and pervades through an organization, driving out (directly and indirectly) those not orthogonal to it. HP had a different personality after her tenure than it did before.

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    2. Re:HP Didn't Spin Off Its Soul by inviolet · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Someone should write a paper or a book about the destruction of American business by the MBA.

      My brother could contribute to the project. He was a pedigreed professor of finance who could teach anywhere he chose. After a few years he was offered tenure. He realized then that his job had become the mass-production of MBAs, very very few of whom were at all receptive to the most crucial idea he tried to impart to them: you should make money, not merely get money.

      Seeing then that the fruit of his labors were ruining our society, he quit to start over becoming a EE. I admire him for that.

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