Mark Hurd
Mark Hurd
Mark Vincent Hurdis co-CEO of Oracle Corporation, and the past chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard. At Hewlett-Packard, Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman, who served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005 to March 28, 2005, after former CEO Carly Fiorina was forced by the board to resign. On September 22, 2006, Hurd succeeded Pat Dunn as chairman after she resigned after the pretexting controversy. Hurd resigned his positions at HP on August 6, 2010, following an investigation...
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We are continuing to deliver on our plan to strengthen HP and better serve our customers. Growth was balanced across most of our businesses and geographies, cash flow was strong and we were disciplined in controlling costs. While hard work remains ahead of us, our efforts are starting to show results.
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We've got some looseness in our structures and our processes, ... We have to get away from managing and reporting to leading and driving.
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Results have been inconsistent. The stock has been volatile, if not disappointing.
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We're trying to put more energy into our relationship. If you're a customer, the key message I want to you hear is you can sleep well tonight, knowing you've got tremendous energy, power and investment behind this.
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We're going to go get aggressive in the marketplace. We put a lot into this, and we've got a lot more coming.
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We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,
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For us, we have a tremendous asset in the customer base, ... We haven't done as good a job as I think we can at understanding the aggregate customer business.
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We look at the channel as a strategic advantage and not a strategic problem, We need you. We can't get to every buying point. And even when we get to every buying point, we can't bring every solution. We need your help.
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We're not working on spinning off any part of the business. They give good leverage points across the company, which are of value.
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He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.
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He was a natural leader who was enormously well-liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.
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You have all of our commitment to making HP an easier company to deal with,
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There is a lot of hope in the company,
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We've got a lot of stuff to go work on. You may not always like what we say ... but we will work exceedingly hard to deliver on commitments we set.