Mark Hurd, CEO, Hewlett-Packard - Haas School

[Austyg]

Steve Carell's older brother?

[jack76787]

Amazing big picture vision. I love this kind of stuff.

[jmasui]

Three corner stone of a great speech.

1. Don't waste 5 minutes on talking about some football game that took place decades ago.

2. Stop sucking on glass frame.

3. Don't bullshit. HP hires the best people? Only if they are all in India.

[MrSeventhElement]

If being confident was an Olympic discipline, this guy would be competing for gold. I'm not sure if this is appealing or appaling.

[satsonic3]

He keep playing with his glasses. This guy needs to get some contacts and just get it over with. Very distracting...no wonder he was fired from HP after the Touchpad fire sale...LOL

[baratsumit]

I find his glas absolutely distracting, I presume his' corporate communication guy will do justice to his' job by pointing this out to him... too bad, no one pointed this out to him already...

[CommercialBreakProd]

Dear Mark Hurd, now that you've resigned from HP as CEO, I can't mail this to your office, however, I do want you to know how I and many other customers of HP feel about your customer service, product support, and well.... ... your products. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to finally get my money's worth from your products..

[ericdmoore]

Does anyone else find his glasses distracting?

[jsankr16]

Mark Hurd is losing HP's best people by not having HP an employee friendly - By decreasing pays, no hikes even HP buys bigger companies of 3 Billion dollars worth.. its bad for a company which is not taking care of its work force.

[veg1024]

But thanks at least for being willing to talk with students in a setting that excluded such type of questions. That is still worth something.

[MrXFroDad]

Great questions. Unfortunately, Mr Hurd shields himself from the real questions. His talks, or townhalls, are all clearly orchestrated, as are the questions. He is a 100% greedy coward.

[veg1024]

7. Just because you CAN go after more profit, does it always mean you SHOULD, if you have to do it by cutting pay and benefits, replacing domestic workers with foreign workers, and forcing fewer people to work longer hours for the same or less pay and benefits? What is OK to do in the name of shareholder value, and what is not OK?

8. Can you try not to use the word "planet" so often? ("best on the planet") I counted 8 times in this video.

...And there are so many other questions...

[veg1024]

5. As head of a global company, have you tried to learn any foreign languages?

6. Having already earned maybe $100 million, why don't you retire and spend more time with your family and pursuing outside interests? Is selling ink and equipment and enterprises services that exciting?

[veg1024]

3. How can it possibly be ethical for you to simultaneously hold the positions of CEO and Chairman of the Board, since the former should be reporting to the latter?

4. You seem to think company culture has to do with getting people to understand and fit in with your strategy. In reality, it's about employees trusting that you will do right by them. Are you doing right by them?

[veg1024]

Some possible questions:

1. As the CEO of a global company based in the US, is your interest aligned with the US national interest? When exactly are you acting in a patriotic manner, and when are you not, and does it even matter?

2. As you cut jobs, yet hope for more consumer demand, are you not contributing to a paradox that is actually hurting the country?

[veg1024]

Mark Hurd has some interesting statistics at his disposal, and comes off as a humble, friendly, engaging, and knowledgeable guy, a wise mentor to the next generation.

The students' questions to their guest were understandably all very polite and safe. But it is the questions NOT asked that tell the rest of the story. By asking the right questions, students could have shown Hurd to be less wise, less friendly, and more protective of a system that benefits him while harming many. (continued)

[Fabulososperman23]

I've seen many "coffee talks" of Mark Hurd, he always does that

[youdanieltube]

he's got serious issues :))