Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorinais an American businessperson and political candidate. Fiorina is known primarily for her tenure as the Chief Executive Officerof Hewlett-Packard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 September 1954
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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Our results continue to be impacted by significant macro-economic challenges and particular weakness in consumer and capital spending in the U.S. and Europe,
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We are managing through what is clearly a significant global economic downturn, and our results reflect this tough environment, ... However, we are seeing positive signs that our efforts to transform our business and improve our execution are gaining traction, and we continue to make strategic moves to fuel growth.
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This continues to be a challenging and somewhat unpredictable environment, ... Given our miss, we think it's prudent to be somewhat cautious.
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This board has always operated on the important governance principles of independence, deliberation and respect for a diversity of views, ... The board recognizes the importance of shareowner voices. We will reach out to shareowners, including our institutions and foundations, to determine the best way to assure they continue to be heard.
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At the same time, I think it is also true that the level of overall IT spending continues to remain quite depressed, and pricing pressures continue to be very real.
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Economies around the world continue to weaken as we move through the quarter,
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Economic conditions around the world continue to be challenging, but consumer technology spending is clearly showing some strength, ... As a result, we are seeing better-than-expected revenues in our PC and imaging and printing businesses.
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It is not our intention to lose momentum in (the) marketplace. But in keeping our desire to be realistic ... we have modeled it in.
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We're clearly not seeing any recovery in 2001, and I think we're talking a recovery in the second half of 2002, ... And I think the recovery will be limited.
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We're also beginning to see demand for our notebooks in Japan, which has been an untapped market for us so far.
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Results were driven by excellent execution in imaging and printing and good performance in services, ... While overall computing systems results remain weak, we saw improvement in certain segments, including storage and PCs.
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It allows us to fix our PC business, ... If I didn't care about laying off people I could just shut it down. If I shut it down, I'd lay off a lot more than 15,000 people across two companies over several years.
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It doesn't make sense to get out of that business. It's an important part of the solutions bundle. But don't think we didn't look at it (getting out of PC sales) carefully. We did.
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While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision.