by Daria Steigman on September 8, 2010
I was wrong. Utterly and completely.
I argued with my mom in early August that former HP CEO Mark Hurd would only be unemployed for a year or so. (She thought his career was over.) That he’d do a requisite stint in the wilderness and then get some cushy consulting gig. That’s because, despite being really stupid, Mark Hurd’s a pretty smart business guy.
Turns out that exile didn’t even last a month.
In case you didn’t see the news, Hurd has been hired as Oracle’s newest co-president.
I guess business ethics don’t matter after all. What other conclusion can you draw?
Photo by Hamed Saber (Flickr).
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by Daria Steigman on August 10, 2010
Mark Hurd is a very stupid man. With all the money he was earning from Hewlett-Packard, don’t you think he could have paid cash (his cash) for dinner if he didn’t want a paper trail?
You don’t have to pay me $12 million or $10 million or even $1 million. It doesn’t matter the salary, commission, or project fee. I simply pledge today not to cheat on my expense account.
It’s not a sacrifice.
It’s business ethics. And, of course, reputation.
Photo by Justin Baeder (Flickr).
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