Postcards
Power Point: Move beyond yesterday's news
August 19, 2008: 6:09 PM ET"We don't want to be on the History Channel. We want to be on the news channel."
--Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd in Fortune's 2006 profile by Adam Lashinsky, when asked whether he would have done the Compaq deal orchestrated by his predecessor, Carly Fiorina. Hurd replaced Fiorina, who was fired in February 2005, and moved quickly to improve execution and revive morale. HP reported earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with a 14% jump in third quarter profits.
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Adventures in entrepreneurship: CEO Diane Greene departs VMware
The news that EMC (EMC)has no intention of spinning off VMware (VMW) and expects lower than projected revenue growth for the company in 2008 are the primary reasons the two companies lost $8 billion in combined stock-market value over the last few days.
Another factor is the departure of VMware CEO Diane Greene, the company's chief since she founded the software firm with engineer husband, Mendel Rosenblum, in 1998. EMC CEO MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jul 9, 2008 6:26 PM ET
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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