Why did HP’s board really ditch CEO Mark Hurd? Sex? No. Expense account? Nope. From Eric Schonfeld on a survey published in TechCrunch:
Steve Jobs has a 98 percent approval rating among Apple employees, Cisco CEO John Chambers has an 81 percent approval rating, and Hurd’s tennis partner and defender, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, has a 78 percent approval rating. Even Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz (56%) and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (52%) are more loved by their employees than Hurd.
HP’s employees hated the guy.