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Where can I get such a monkey?
by xfax 14y ago
Where can I get such a monkey?
- noobface 14y agoAny MBA program
- xfax 14y agoAh, finally - MBA getting some credit on HN ;). Monkey that triples shareholder value in a multi-billion dollar company? I'll take two please.
- cpunks 14y agoCarly Fiorina. She did the same thing to HP, very differently. Cut quality. Cut R&D. Cut support. Cut service. Slightly lower prices, while your reputation is still sky-high. Outsource anything that can be done cheaper not in-house. Scale back benefits and anything that costs money. Have layoffs anywhere that doesn't produce short-term revenue. Profits soar. Share prices soar. A few years later, as reputation catches up with quality and support, as there are no new products in the R&D pipeline, and as you have no core competencies, and as your best employees leave, the company tanks. You walk of with a ton of cash from early-year bonuses.
- debacle 14y agoHP's reputation was also destroyed over that time period. We and many other companies we worked with switch to Dell during Fiorina's tenure.
- vtry 14y agoYou, me, anyone really.
- marshray 14y agoJust out of curiosity, how would you have tripled Microsoft's "share value"?
- CamperBob2 14y agoLook in the corner offices of most other leading tech companies on the Fortune 500, who outperformed MSFT over the same period.