Fiorina ‘Doubled’ Size Of HP – By Buying Another Company
Trump is right about one thing: Fiorina doubled the size of Hewlett-Packard mostly by buying Compaq, not by attracting more customers. That merger is now widely seen as a failure. Perhaps the definitive account of Fiorina’s time as CEO of HP — written while she was still there — is Carol Loomis’s 2005 profile in Fortune.