This interesting bit is on the sidebar of the article re Meg Whitman.....
Hewlett-Packard's Leaders
 Lew Platt
Tenure: July 1992 - July 1999
Stock Price, July 16, 1992: $8.70
Stock Price, July 19, 1999: $58.13
The last true insider to run H.P. At the end of his tenure he sought an outsider who could re-energize a company he thought had missed opportunities in the rise of the Internet.
Photo: Peter DaSilva for The New York Times
 Carly Fiorina
Tenure: July 1999 - Feb. 2005
Stock Price, July 19, 1999: $58.13
Stock Price, Feb. 9, 2005: $21.53
Tried to bring H.P. into the Internet age through big corporate acquisitions; her $25 billion acquisition of Compaq was particularly controversial. She was eventually fired amid uneven business execution.
Photo: Dee Marvin/Associated Press
 Mark Hurd
Tenure: March 2005 - Aug. 2010
Stock Price, March 28, 2005: $19.79
Stock Price, Aug. 7, 2010: $41.85
Focused on cost-cutting, which bolstered the company's stock but led critics to say that he starved H.P. of the talent necessary for product creation. He resigned amid charges of inappropriate conduct with a female contract employee.
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 Leo Apotheker
Tenure: Sep. 2010 - Sep. 2011
Stock Price, Sep. 30, 2010: $42.07
Stock Price, Sep. 22, 2011: $22.80
Felt that H.P. needed to focus on software, and spent $10 billion to purchase a data analysis firm. He publicly mused about the possibility of selling the company's PC business, which led the share price to crash.
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