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Names ARMAND KRISTIAN L. HAPINAT__________ Section BSBA-OM 302 A

Date 3/4/2022 _

ACTIVITY
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company
Hewlett-Packard or commonly known as HP, is an American manufacturer of software and computer
services.
Mark Hurd, the CEO of HP in 2005, roared into the company by eliminating more than 15,000 jobs;
cutting down costs for research and development; and attempting to automate consulting services. A
leak of information discussed at a board of director’s strategy meeting in late 2005 led then–Board
Chairman Patricia Dunn and CEO Mark Hurd to initiate an investigation of fellow board members. Using
detectives who posed as reporters, they obtained phone records of those people on the board that they
suspected, and the spying scandal exploded into the open. Dunn was fired from her board seat in 2006
and Newsweek magazine put her on the cover with the title “The Boss Who Spied on Her Board.” Mark
Hurd escaped any serious repercussions from the scandal and announced a new, very strict code of
conduct for the corporation. By all accounts, Mark Hurd was successful at turning the company around
and was listed as one of the best CEOs in 2009. However, another scandal broke, Hurd was accused of
sexual harassment with an HP marketing consultant. While the board found that he did not actually
violate the company’s sexual-harassment policies, they did find that he submitted inaccurate expense
reports intended to conceal the relationship. He was forced to resign in August 2010 by a powerful but
small group of directors. In the wake of the Hurd resignation, there was a major board shakeup. Four (4)
directors involved in forcing the Hurd resignation resigned their board seats, and five (5) new board
members were named.

In November 2010, the board named Leo Apotheker as the new CEO. He was the former head of Global
Field Operations at SAP and would remain the company’s CEO for little more than 10 months.
Apotheker’s move to push forward the HP TouchPad tablet was a commercial failure at the same time
that HP phones were taking a beating in the market. In a stunning announcement in September 2011, he
stated that HP would exit the PC business entirely. HP was the leader in PC sales both within the United
States and globally. The outrage was immediate and overwhelming. The company reversed position two
(2) weeks later, but the board was appalled at his lack of leadership. After firing Apotheker, the board
named one of its own members, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to run the company. The board turmoil
did not end. After a contentious annual meeting in 2013, the Chairman of the Board stepped down, and
two (2) other board members resigned. In 2014, Meg Whitman was named Chairman of the Board and
two (2) new members were added at the same time that the company was in the process of the most
significant layoffs in its history. From 2011 when Whitman took over as CEO to 2015, the company laid
off more than 55,000 employees. Effective November 1, 2015, the company split into two (2) publicly
traded companies to separate the slow-growing PC and printer business from the potentially fast-
growing cloud technology and cyber security businesses.

The manufacturing, delivery, and use of HP products and solutions requires a substantial amount of
natural resources. As part of their commitment in protecting the planet, HP measures their
environmental footprint across the value chain to prioritize areas for improvement. HP is the first
company in the IT industry to publish a full carbon footprint and one of the first to disclose a complete
water footprint. The goal of the company is to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions by 25% in 2020
and reduce its global operations’ potable water consumption by 15% in 2025.

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Names RALPH LOUISE PONCIANO______________ Section BSBA-OM 302 A
Date 3/7/2022 _

Answer the following questions: (4 items x 10 points)

1. What is/are the sustainable business practice/s of HP based on the given case?
Stakeholder Engagement, which focuses on climate change and water scarcity by reducing its
operations portable water consumption by 15% by 2025, and Supply Chain Management, which
requires them to drive its environmental and social expectations, are the sustainable business
practices of HP that are being used in the given case. It also collaborates with them to set a
target of a 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
2. What pillar/s of sustainability is/are being addressed by HP’s business practice/s?
The Environmental Pillar is the pillar of sustainability that HP's business is addressing in this
situation in order to assure their commitment to saving the world. This sort of pillar aids the
organization in its quest for long-term viability. The HP corporation is focused on lowering its
carbon footprint, water use, and overall environmental effect.
3. What function/s of corporate governance is/are present in the case study?
Because HP is committed to maintaining the highest standards of business conduct and
corporate governance, which we believe are essential to running our business efficiently,
serving our stakeholders well, and maintaining HP's integrity in the marketplace, the functions
of corporate governance that are present in the case study are (Government Regulation).
Integrity in HP is a code of corporate behavior and ethics for directors, officials, including HP's
chief executive officer, chief financial officer, and controller, as well as workers.
4. How will HP resolve its given organizational problem based on the functions of corporate
governance?
For my part, I believe HP will overcome its organizational challenge by concentrating on how
to achieve their aim through the use of government regulation. The fundamental issue with
this group was that they were able to simply replace their head or a higher-ranking member of
the organization, which had a detrimental influence on HP. This corporate governance role
promotes openness when it comes to corporate government legislation.
Rubric for grading:
CRITERIA PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POINTS
Content Provided pieces of evidence, supporting
8
details, and factual scenarios
Grammar Used correct grammar, punctuation,
1
spelling, and capitalization
Organization Expressed the points in clear and logical
1
of ideas arrangement of ideas in the paragraph
TOTAL 10

References:
Bamford, C., Hoffman, A., Hunger, D., & Wheelen, T. (2018). Strategic management and business policy:
Globalization, innovation and sustainability (15th ed.). United Kingdom: Pearson Education
Limited.
Hewlett-Packard. (2019). Our footprint. Retrieved on February 14, 2019, from
https://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/environment/footprint.html

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