Monday, October 9, 2006

Dunn, Fiorino fire back on 60 Minutes



60 Minutes was the venue last night for former H-P chairwoman Patricia Dunn to protest her indictment and for former H-P CEO Carly Fiorino to shill her new book in which she says she was unceremoniously dumped by H-P's male run board. Both women charged that H-P was intolerant of women at the top and that former board members Tom Perkins (a very, very rich guy) and physicist George Keyworth (also a male and alleged information leaker that intially sparked this long-running feud) both waged a vindictive campaign against them. To make Perkins seem even more sinister, they flashed pictures of him on his humongous 286 foot yacht "The Maltese Falcon." The viewer comes away with a picture of two women hung out to dry for challenging the entrenched male culture that has ruled at H-P for decades. Both women admit making mistakes, some probably illegal in the case of Dunn, but the interviews offer yet more intrigue in this durable dispute at H-P. One can only hope Perkins and Keyworth will tell their sides of the story, but they made not need to given how thoroughly they have prevailed in this mess.           

Did you see them on 60 Minutes? If not, click on the links first two links in this post.


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