Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Case Assignment Iman Abdur-Rahim Prof. Brian Grizzell Principles of Management BUS302 August 19th, 2011 The first problem that I noticed when I read the case was the fact it mentioned that HP was under managed. In 2001, HP had 84,400 employees while Carly Fiorina was Chief Executive Officer ¹. This fact lets me know that there should have been various levels of management from the CEO on down to the first level employees. In order for a company to be successful there has to

12/22/2010 Project Group: ESC39 i ASIS Hewlett-Packard Projectgroup 39 Noortje Wilbrink Jela Djurdjevic Lini Zhong Mitchel Lemmens Dirk van Beelen Jasper Arnou Kasper Verboven Paul Suntjens Tutor: Jonathan van Melle ii Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to analyze and evaluate opportunities and threats in the North-American environment of HP. This report is written to provide Hewlett-Packard with a clear view of external factors which influence

The 30s Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard finished their studies as electrical engineersin the Stanford University in 1934. They became close friend and in 1939 they decided to start a business "and make a run for it" themselves. Hewlett-Packard Company is founded January 1939.Bill and Dave begin part-time work in a garage with $538 in working capital. Bill 's study of negative feedback results in HP 's first product the resistance-capacitance audio oscillator (HP 200A), an electronic instrument used

there is motivation for Hewlett Packard and that is why they are around today. Memo to TeleGen’s CEO To: Richard Gehlen - CEO From: Team A CC: James Angleton-VPF, Margareth McLeod-VPHR, William

later, she became president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company - the first woman CEO of a Fortune 20 company. She was given a mandate by HP’s board of directors to “shake things up” and was later named the "Most Powerful Woman in Business" by Fortune magazine. Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent nearly twenty years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions (Cara Carleton Fiorina. (2014). In 1999, Hewlett-Packard hired Carly Fiorina, former senior executive

firsts like the first all-in-one device and is the first company to recycle ink cartridges. They have also acquired many smaller companies like Snapfish and Compaq to grow the company to being one of the industry leaders in personal computing. (Hewlett-Packard, 2013). Market Factors Computer technology is constantly advancing over software and hardware that is available at any one given time. These constant changes affect how long computer products can sell for a premium price but also can make

customers than its competition. We will be looking at HEWLETT-PACKARD. Hewlett-Packard emphasis has gone beyond just reacting to the needs of users as and when they arise, to a forward looking proactive approach. This reflects the contribution that the management makes. Procurement in the past

Demonstration of Leadership Craig Johnson wrote an article in November 2008 to evaluate the most controversial tenure of Carly Fiorina, the former Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard (HP), using the ethical leadership construct. In the article, Johnson generates several questions that relate to leadership and management practices. The evaluation of HP’s former Chief Executive Officer is influenced by the fact that the company experienced a decline in productivity within a short period after

One weakness for the company would be HP’s software sales. According to Peter Grant from EHOW, “HP software sales and HP’s Enterprise Business line of software products are one of the weaker revenue streams among HP’s other business units”. “These software products compete with others produced by Microsoft, VMWare, and Salesforce in the CRM, ERP, and virtualization software markets” (Grant, Peter). Another weakness for the company is their lack of presence in the tablet market. HP continues to produce

Hewlett-Packard was founded (like every other good invention) in a garage in 1938 by David Packard and Bill Hewlett. They introduced their first product (and the world’s first computer), the HP 200A Audio Oscillator (pictured right), which quickly became a popular piece of test equipment for engineers (Computer History Museum, 2006). But it was the invention of the World Wide Web that led the way for computers to revolutionize our society. Tim Berners – Lee (pictured right) invented the World Wide