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Paul Brest, Sullivan's predecessor at SLS and current president of the Hewlett Foundation, thinks Sullivan would be an excellent choice...
DIED. WILLIAM HEWLETT, 87, philanthropist, engineering whiz; in Palo Alto, Calif. Hewlett and fellow Stanford University student David Packard started their company in 1938 in a rented garage with $538. The firm's initial inventions: an automatic urinal flusher and a harmonica tuner. Its first success was selling sound-testing devices to Disney in 1939. HP entered the consumer market in 1972 with pocket calculators. Its growth and capital launched Silicon Valley, but Hewlett seemed prouder of HP's management style, stressing creativity and teamwork. Billionaires Hewlett and Packard rejoined the company in 1990, when they saw it had become...
Such deals aren't reserved for GE alums. When Carly Fiorina left Lucent to become Hewlett-Packard's CEO, she reportedly landed more than $50 million up front to compensate for the value of stock options she had to leave behind. (Smart move. Lucent's stock collapsed this year, contributing to CEO Rich McGinn's recent unemployment.) Alex Mandl got $20 million up front and 18% of the company when he left the No. 2 post at AT&T to run the telecom start-up Teligent. Others landing huge pay deals include Jamie Dimon at Bank One, Joseph Nacchio...
...social equity to the corporate and community-organization partners he has attracted. The National Urban League is promoting Placesofcolor.com at its technology centers, where people get computer training. AOL bought 3% of DME's shares with an option on 4 million more. In October, Dash signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard to buy laptops and PCs. "He's blazing a trail," says Doug McGowan, general manager of e-services solutions at Hewlett-Packard. "If he's successful, others will follow in his footsteps...
...lunchtime, the Dow was down 215 points to 10,386 and the NASDAQ down 158 to 2870. The Dow tends to be more responsive to political considerations; the tech index has plenty of its own troubles to worry about. A bad profit warning from Dow component and tech bellwether Hewlett Packard helped sellers in both indexes make up their minds Monday, but it's generally agreed that the dawning of another week of election madness is starting to be a big part of the problem across the board...