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For the price of one Mark Hurd, you could have pooled your spending and purchased not just a Harley, but all of Harley-Davidson.

Mr. Hurd reached a settlement with her Thursday, according to another person familiar with the matter.

Five months after taking over the top spot from ousted chief Mark Hurd, new CEO Leo Apotheker spelled out his plan to transform HP.

This makes it all the more surprising that Mr Hurd, who seems to be a sensible chap, took on the chairmanship of HP.

Some legal experts said HP could have taken different steps to ensure that Hurd did not land at a close rival in such a short time.

Hurd said the decision to go was a "painful" one but admitted the investigation had made it difficult for him to continue.

The debate over Mr. Hurd's actions is not just a matter of setting the record straight. It could affect his prospects for future employment.

Surely, at some point , this woman must have concluded that Hurd's was more interested in having sex with her than in her marketing skills.

But at least Mr Hurd would not constantly have to answer questions, as Ms Fiorina hated doing, about Dell leaving HP in the dust.

In his conversation this week, Mr. Hurd said the last time the two saw each other was in Boise, Idaho, around the fall of 2009.

If she's got any marketing talent at all, she'd know pretty darn quick when Hurd's attention changed from her brochures to her brassieres.

It has been a year since H-P fired Mr. Hurd.

In 2010, when Mark V. Hurd was pushed out of H. P. he said he would "move aside. "

Mr. Hurd was speaking to Arab reporters in London on the eve of his visits to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Once Hurd arrived, he quietly put a stop to that, injected resources into ProCurve, and turned into a growth business.

The people familiar with the matter cautioned that talks weren't complete and it was possible Mr. Hurd's hiring could still fall through.

I would not at all be surprised if she got in touch with Allred after Hurd finally got wise and put an end to the gravy train .

But almost any position would represent a coup for Mr Hurd after HP's board forced him to quit the company he had led for five years.

Late on Monday, Oracle announced that Mr. Hurd had joined the company as a president and a director.

Hurd's obsession with driving up profits left the company's staff demoralized and its ability to innovate hamstrung.

Peel, who died in 1850, emerges in Lord Hurd's hands from his early Victorian chrysalis into a much brighter, more relevant figure.

One step for Mr Hurd might be to find a heavyweight to replace him in his newest job.

In the wake of that incident, Mr. Apotheker in an interview blamed Mr. Hurd for not investing in H-P's services and software businesses.

This week's news that Patricia Dunn will step down in January as chairman of HP's board in favour of Mr Hurd may not prove so inspired.

Before joining H. P. as its chief executive in 2005, Mr. Hurd was chief executive of NCR, which had the leading data warehousing technology.

On September 6th Oracle announced it had hired Mr Hurd and given him a seat on the software behemoth's board.

Mr Hurd stepped down from his positions as president and CEO after an investigation into claims made against him by a former HP contractor.

The relationship between the two companies began to fray after Mr. Hurd resigned from H. P. last month.

The total amount of the expenses in dispute is not known , but Hurd has offered to repay the sums in question .

This month, Oracle hired Mr. Hurd to succeed Charles E. Phillips Jr. as a president at the company.

Before joining H. P. as its chief executivein 2005, Mr. Hurd was chief executive of NCR, which had the leading datawarehousing technology.

Hurd is beloved by investors for his relentless cost-cutting but widely scorned by the thousands of employees he has axed along the way.

That means Mr. Hurd's successor will have to look for growth, a tough proposition for a firm already generating $125 billion in sales.

If there's one tenet of the legendary corporate culture known as the HP Way that CEO Mark Hurd has mastered, that's it.

H-P is paying Mark Hurd twelve million dollars plus millions more in stock options to leave.

In a statement released by her attorney, Gloria Allred, Ms. Fisher said she was 'saddened' that Mr. Hurd lost his job.

Mark Hurd has resigned as boss of computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) following a sexual harassment probe, the company says.

That Oracle is keen on Mr Hurd (so keen it will pay him a bonus of up to $10m) is hardly surprising.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison came out as one of Hurd's biggest backers after his breakup with H-P.

The sexual harassment charges filed against Mark Hurd split the company's board and unsettled its shareholders.

In particular, Mr. Hurd built a reputation as acost-cutting whiz and could apply those skills to bringing the Sun business inline.

Before he was asked to resign by H-P's board Friday, Mr. Hurd reached a private settlement with Ms. Fisher for an undisclosed amount.

Supposedly she was a glorified hostess at H-P sales events, making sure big clients got face time with Mr. Hurd.

"It will be interesting to see who ONGC and Sinopec send to Latin America to oversee their investment, " Mr Hurd says.

Mr. Hurd leaves behind a tight ship so juicing margins doesn't look like an option to create shareholder value from here.

Then Mark Hurd, Fiorina's CEO successor, got into trouble over his relationship with a female HP consultant.

Under the provision Hurd agreed to a 24-month confidentiality agreement, which prevents him from disclosing sensitive H-P information.

Shareholders have also filed lawsuits against the company over Mr. Hurd's exit.

Before HP, Hurd worked at business technology company NCR Corp for 25 years and was that company's CEO from 2003 to 2005.

So the news out of Palo Alto, California, last Friday came to many as a shock. Mark Hurd was out.

The compensation package from Oracle comes as Hurd could receive a potential $35 million severance from H-P as part of his departure.

The 50-year-old said Sunday that she was "surprised and saddened" that Mark Hurd, 53, had lost his job following her allegations.

If Mr. Hurd lands at Oracle, he would join a company that has increasingly been stepping on some of H-P's turf.

Mark Hurd, who was fired Friday as the computer giant's chief executive, would appear to have failed that test.

But Professor Hurd says despite the large force deployed throughout the city, officials are somewhat receptive to the protests.

This single, it's enough to make Mark Hurd inside students'thanksgiving and reverence.

Hurd went to college in Texas and worked there at the beginning of his career.

The chance that Mr Hurd, a well-regarded manager, would have to resign could have spooked investors.

In the statement, Hurd talks about how Oracle's strategy will enable the company to beat IBM, but he doesn't mention H-P.

HP has hired the firm Spencer Stuart to help it find an executive who can replace Hurd permanently.

"Hello, " the woman said. "My name is Ann Hurd. I work with the New Hampshire courts. I want you to sit down. Your son is looking for you. "

Things got worse in September when Oracle hired HP's ex-boss, Mark Hurd, who had been pushed out the previous month.

H-P says an investigation found Mr. Hurd had a 'close personal relationship ' with Ms. Fisher that was never disclosed to the board.

Hewlett-Packard's road to Mark Hurd, a great deal of confidence.

The expenses were incurred at HP-hosted "CEO forums, " mostly in North America, in which Hurd participated, this person said.

First, the amounts of money that were involved were trivial compared to Hurd's compensation.

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From a business perspective, H-P had been performing well before Mr. Hurd's departure.

However, within minutes of Hewlett-Packard disclosing the departure of Mr Hurd, nearly $10bn was wiped from its stock market value.

Mark Hurd, her successor, cut costs but was ousted in 2010 after a dust-up over sex and expenses before he could fix the firm's strategy.

His exit was announced in an H-P press release that included comments from Mr. Hurd and board members.

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H-P says Hurd 'cannot perform his job at Oracle without disclosing or utilizing HP's trade secrets and confidential information. '

Yeah , Hurd is a retired arts professor of US and he often forgets looks of acquaintances.

Mr. Hurd arrived in Silicon Valley five years ago, seeking to prove himself as a chief executive on the biggest stage.

After Baylor, Mr. Hurd joined NCR, a quiet maker of cash-register equipment and automated teller machines, based in Dayton, Ohio.

I confess I am a little intimidated, Lord Hurd, at being moderated by a veteran statesman of your distinction.

But if Mr Hurd was "only one person" and the company was what mattered, why did HP pay him $30m in 2009?

In his separation agreement, Hurd agreed to abide by Section 7 for two years.

After relentless focus on cost-cutting under Hurd, his successor may change gears and satisfy Wall Street's desire for growth.

The exact nature of Mr. Hurd's new job couldn't be learned.

Mr Hurd had the grace to turn down their praise.

That could mean even more M&A (than under Hurd's direction) and greater focus developing snazzier products like smart phones.

Mr Hurd would bring deep knowledge of the hardware industry, where HP gets the lion's share of its revenue.

"Our cost savings are significant and ongoing, " Hurd told reporters on a conference call.

She travelled to Hurd's Moon, to look up Massad Thrumble, who had become a local cantina owner.

Mr. Hurd arrived in Silicon Valley fiveyears ago, seeking to prove himself as a chief executive on the biggest stage.

Sources inside HP also told Fortune Apotheker suffered for not having former-CEO Mark V. Hurd's aptitude for numbers.

Caris & Co. analyst Robert Cihra estimates that H-P's PC business has driven most revenue growth since Mr. Hurd took over.

The parties declined to reveal details about the settlement but said Mr. Hurd would protect H. P. 's confidential information.

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Last week, Hurd landed the job of co-president at Oracle, thanks to his tennis buddy and Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison.

'That was never my intention. ' She said she and Mr. Hurd didn't have a sexual relationship.

H-P is paying Mark Hurd $12, 000, 000 plus millions more in stock options to leave.

Corporate governance experts were split on whether H-P's board overreacted in forcing Mr. Hurd's resignation.

But you can mark Hurd with his strategy of the Trinity of iron triangle, stable cash flow.

But for a numbers guy like Mr. Hurd, H. P. is a fantasy land, and the path for navigating it couldn't be clearer.

At HP, Mr Hurd attended meetings where plans for future products were discussed, the lawsuit points out.

He added that the inaccurate financial reports in question related only to Hurd's personal expenses.

Hurd, the suit alleges, "has put H-P's most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril. "

Hewlett-Packard Co. 's Mark Hurd joins a long list of corporate leaders felled by personal ethical lapses in recent years.

HP CEO Mark Hurd put it this way in June 2009: "more data will be created in the next four years than in the history of the planet. "

Hewlett-Packard is suing to block Mark Hurd, its former chief executive, from joining a rival, Oracle.

Mr. Hurd was investing in growth, expanding H-P's sales force while acquiring network-equipment company 3Com and mobile-device company Palm.

Like most CEOs, Mr. Hurd apparently didn't even prepare his own expense reports.

Some governance experts went further, saying the board should have fired Mr. Hurd for cause.

To close the gap, which would get the shares back to $50, H-P probably needs to replace Mr. Hurd with another operations guru.

As Hurd well knows, IBM and HP are competitors of Oracle in the enterprise servers and storage business.

Mr Hurd's severance deal did not have a non-compete clause, said a person familiar with the issue.

HP alleges his hiring breaches Mr Hurd's exit agreement and would result in the transfer of trade secrets.

Hurd's replacement will follow a five-year run of dominating the PC market and expanding into new areas.

This year, Hurd acquired 3Com Corp. , stepping up competition with Cisco Systems Inc. in networking equipment.

The CEO of HP, Mark Hurd resigned last Friday, ostensibly for fudging his expense reports.

Mr. Hurd did reach a settlement with Ms. Fisher, the terms of which also haven't been disclosed.

An H-P spokeswoman declined to comment on whether it plans to sue Mr. Hurd should he join a competitor.

H-P said its board determined that Mr. Hurd didn't violate H-P's sexual harassment policy, but other irregularities were uncovered.

With a friend like this, do Hurd and Jobs need enemies?

But its lawyers could find it tough to make a case against Mr Hurd stick.

It was slow going at first, as Hurd found it difficult to recruit Masters and Midshipmen who were qualified for such technical work.

Hurd wanted to keep his job, and he and the board couldn't agree on a way to continue working together, the person said.

Mr. Hurd will be co-president with Safra Catz, who has overseen Oracle's finances and operations.

Ms. Fisher was hired by Mr. Hurd's office to work on a freelance basis for H-P between late 2007 and late 2009 at customer events.

Mr. Hurd, by contrast, negotiated an exit package that may be worth more than $35 million, including a cash payment of $12. 2 million.

Mr Hurd has been heavily criticised for his behaviour but 68 -year-old Mr Whitacre deserves the most flak .

Perkins also helped Hurd get a News Corp board seat.

However painful for Mr. Hurd and his family, it soon would be forgotten.

The talks between Mr. Hurd and Oracle were first reported on the Web site ofThe Wall Street Journal on Sunday.

Nothing against Mr Hurd, who shows every sign of being a first-class manager.

HP CEO Mark Hurd (MarkHurd) last month, has said that imaging and business card printing Department will recover.

"Mrs. Hurd is a large woman with a big, comely, simple face" (Ernest Hemingway).

And H-P wants this whole Hurd-at-Oracle thing to stop.

Mr. Hurd has broad experience in the technology business.

But they did find that Mr. Hurd violated H-P's Standards of Business Conduct.

To HP's board, Mr Hurd must have looked perfect in contrast.

Hurd's biggest deal came in 2008 with the $13. 2 billion takeover of Electronic Data Systems Corp. , a provider of computer services.

Mr. Hurd was forced to resign last week, ostensibly for filing false expense reports amounting to about $20, 000.

Tell the new CEO, Leo Apotheker, that Mr. Hurd 'left H-P in great shape. '

The board's charge sheet on Mr Hurd focuses on dodgy expense claims.

Anything related to Mr. Hurd's departure is plainly material, since on Monday the news shaved $8. 7 billion off H-P's market value.

Mr. Hurd will also stand for election to Oracle's board next month.

Perhaps there is value in knowing that Ellison now has anointed his next successor in Hurd.

Mr. Hurd also reached a private settlement with Ms.

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And file lawsuits when Mr. Ellison hires Mr. Hurd.

And let's not forget about Hurd's new boss, Larry Ellison.

The Old Boys' Network that shielded Hurd, Phillips, and so many of their brethren is proof that there's safety in numbers.

He compared HP's board to "idiots" when they forced Mr Hurd out.

Carly Fiorina was dumped in 2005 after HP's share price halved; Mark Hurd in 2010, after a sex-and-expenses scandal.

H-P's operating margins were just 6% when Hurd took the reins.

Hurd, who is married and has two children, intends to pay the company back the entire amount.

The problem for HP is that Mr Hurd deserved his money more than most other chief executives.

Hurd's departure from HP touched off an ugly spat with Oracle, its long-time partner and more recent rival.

Mr. Hurd, perhaps, but who else?

Still, the Wall Street consensus is that Hurd's departure-amid sexual-harassment allegations -is a good time to buy the stock.

Hurd has cut about 15, 000 jobs since becoming CEO in 2005 and consolidated data centers and real estate to reduce costs.

Why exactly is Mr Hurd leaving?

The stock rose 6% Tuesday on word of Mr. Hurd's hiring.

The two companies have been at odds since Mark Hurd was forced out as HP's boss last year, only to take a senior position at Oracle.

While I'm not going to cry for anybody who gets a $12 million severance package, I can't help but think that Hurd is the real victim here.

His name, HP announced on March 29th, is Mark Hurd, and his most noticeable characteristic is that he is very unlike his predecessor.

Mark Hurd been and also know that each employee's feelings and excitement.

Amelio knows his competition. A logistics and supply-chain expert, he worked not only at Dell but also with HP's CEO Mark Hurd at NCR.

Mark Hurd, 53, came to HP in 2005 as CEO and president; he became its board chair in 2006.

Mr. Hurd is married. He earned twenty-four million dollars last year.

C business. Nature to Carly Fiorina sent to hell with the Mark Hurd on top it is this same merger and acquisition.

P. has made three major acquisitions since Mr. Hurd left the company: 3Par, a computer storage company, for $2. 35 billion;

Hewlett-Packard boss Mark Hurd resigns as sexual harassment probe uncovers falsified expense reports

The giant IT company's shares have doubled in value during Hurd's five-year stewardship;

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(Hurd is a co-president at Oracle (ORCL). )

Mark Hurd: HP CEO is the Real Victim