As Compliance Week readers now know, Mark Hurd, the hard-charging chief of Hewlett-Packard—who through acquisitions, layoffs, and cost cutting raised the company’s fortunes—was recently fired. The surrounding circumstances are the stuff of tabloids, including allegations of sexual harassment by a female consultant. We may never know exactly what transpired, and we probably don’t need to. But there are some lessons here worth examining.
Why the HP Board Did What it Did
Media reports say that the lawyer for Jodie Fisher, the woman at the center of the scandal, contacted the company in June with the sexual harassment ...