Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorinais an American businessperson and political candidate. Fiorina is known primarily for her tenure as the Chief Executive Officerof Hewlett-Packard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 September 1954
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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It doesn't make sense to get out of that business. It's an important part of the solutions bundle. But don't think we didn't look at it (getting out of PC sales) carefully. We did.
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It allows us to fix our PC business, ... If I didn't care about laying off people I could just shut it down. If I shut it down, I'd lay off a lot more than 15,000 people across two companies over several years.
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Notebooks and home PCs were the shining stars.
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Economic conditions around the world continue to be challenging, but consumer technology spending is clearly showing some strength, ... As a result, we are seeing better-than-expected revenues in our PC and imaging and printing businesses.
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We had planned for single-digit growth in our PC business in the U.S.; we had planned for that in U.S. retail, ... Nevertheless, we did indicate that we saw less growth than anticipated even with that single-digit forecast. It is a relatively small part of our portfolio and it does not change our forecast.
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What's particularly gratifying to me is that we delivered these results at the same time we are reinventing the company.
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Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.
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The people of HP can execute, and they've proven it. Think about the challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome: a very difficult economic environment worldwide; an industry undergoing a rapid transformation; intense competition; and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have predicted, but one that we are determined to win.
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Our results continue to be impacted by significant macro-economic challenges and particular weakness in consumer and capital spending in the U.S. and Europe,
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Results were driven by excellent execution in imaging and printing and good performance in services, ... While overall computing systems results remain weak, we saw improvement in certain segments, including storage and PCs.
I think reinvention for all of us is not a nice-to-do, it's a got-to-do
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It is not our intention to lose momentum in (the) marketplace. But in keeping our desire to be realistic ... we have modeled it in.
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It is on the high end where we've been lagging. But today, just like we've changed the game in the low end, we will change the game in the high end.
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Our new trading symbol is a tribute to the contribution of both companies as we come together to build the new HP.