Then, suddenly, Meg Whitman stood alone at HP. With the departure of chairman Ray Lane and two other board members from Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), Whitman finally finds herself with the ...

Companies aiming to hire more women for boards and other top positions have to work hard to find and recruit them, instead of waiting for candidates to come through the pipeline. That was the message ...

(AP) - Meg Whitman could get more than $15 million for her first year as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, according to company filings. It's a big payday even by the lofty standards of big-time CEOs. The chief ...

Meg Whitman’s leadership, Autonomy’s top brass to be in the spotlight of a new trial Hewlett Packard then CEO Meg Whitman had high hopes for the Autonomy acquisition in a time when HP was fighting for ...

In the Silicon Valley, almost anyone you ask will tell you HP needs a big fix. But few top-notch CEOs are lining up for the job. Whitman could be the one person with enough fire in her belly to do it, ...

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman has dazzled investors with her cost cutting and right sizing efforts, but this week she offered something even more tantalizing: a potentially game-changing new ...

Léo Apotheker is gone, but his strategy will live on. The new leadership at HP may not have learned its lesson Hewlett-Packard needs massive changes, and it needs them fast. But judging by her debut ...

There was a time when I was a frequent user of eBay and its payment arm, PayPal. As I wrote last year, during Whitman’s failed Californian Gubernatorial candidate bid: The eBay and PayPal services ...

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Hewlett-Packard's board just can't get out of its own way. Appointing Meg Whitman to run the company is the latest example why. The former eBay boss only ...

Meg Whitman has been confirmed as the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Following media speculation yesterday, the former eBay chief has now officially succeeded Leo Apotheker, who was dismissed by the ...

Before she took office as HP CEO, as a board member Meg Whitman supported spinning off the company's PC division, yesterday, she pushed HP in the exact opposite direction. In mid-August, HP announced ...

On her seventh day as CEO of Hewlett Packard, Meg Whitman said she would decide before the end of October whether to spin off the company’s $43 billion PC business. “I want to make that decision much ...