In this summary you will learn
- Who Carly Fiorina is and how she came to run Hewlett-Packard
- The inside story of Hewlett-Packard’s contentious merger with Compaq
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Why you should read Perfect Enough
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| Carly Fiorina is a controversial character who engineered one of the most contentious, notorious mergers in business history. Author George Anders has written a fast-paced, gripping to read, account of Ms. Fiorina’s career, Hewlett-Packard’s history and the controversial events surrounding the hard-fought merger. His account is quite friendly to Ms. Fiorina, and rarely criticizes her. Anders tilts noticeably against her antagonists, especially the curious Walter B. Hewlett, son of the company’s co-founder and philanthropist. He had significant influence over the family foundation, but its fortunes depended on the fate of the company and HP stock. getAbstract.com finds this narrative indispensable to understanding the history of the merger. It reveals high-level boardroom politics and maneuvering, and brings alive the breathtaking pace and fiery personalities involved. (And, if you want a contrasting view, a previous book, Backfire, promoted Walter B. Hewlett’s side of the controversy.) |
About the Author
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George Anders is a news editor at The Wall Street Journal and was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. He is also the author of Merchants of Debt.
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