Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, Leo Apotheker or Meg Whitman?
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A four way tie they were all culpable in leading to the demise of HP/HPE to a death by a thousand cuts.
It was Hurd who bought EDS and cut expenses to the bone. Meg undid what Carly, Mark, and Leo (Autonomy) had done to the company by slitting it into 4 pieces and massive layoffs. It's a tough one but I have to say Mark and Leo were the worst.
Carly, no contest
Hurd is arguably the worst... he beats the second runner up hands down.
Meg Whitman is the Pol Pot ofSilicon Valley!
When you add up all the acquisitions during her tenure and all the employees that were part of those companies and look at the number of employees still left it is closer to literally a million people that she killed off~
HPE is about a tenth of the size it was only two years ago.. she is the all time worst CEO of HP/HPE
Hurd.
Hurd, because he killed more than one company, and is in the process of killing Oracle. He should be mopping up HPE's on prem biz for Oracle, instead what is left of Sun and StorageTek is being gutted.
Wall Street liked Hurd. Is not as keen on Whitman
The board of directors don’t be disillusioned.
Herd is the worst CEO. Aside from laying off people, he also took away so many of the employee benefits while fattening his own and his cronies' wallets.
Michael Cappellas........wish Compaq would never have sold out.
Carly Fiorina without a doubt. She is every bit as egocentric as Meg but she killed the future of HP when she killed the information appliance program and bought Compaq. information appliance == smartphones.
I agree with @PqF9nIk-xsy
Yes, all three, but only one of them has been personally responsible for putting over 100,000 people out of work.
Three of them have found ways to make life miserable for their employees. Meg did it with surgical precision, intended to drive people out. She dialed it up to 11.
Leo probably doesn't deserve to be included in the group... he wasn't a great CEO, made a mess of HP's attempt to get into the mobile market and destroyed Palm, but he wasn't actively trying to destroy employee morale or particularly egregious in his excesses. He serves as a placeholder between Hurd and Whitman, and as proof of what sort of person Meg really is (a backstabbing, plotting, greedy rage-a-holic)
Yes to all of them I presume, equally in their "dereliction of duties."
Yes