Word: hp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like more and more American workers, Martin has come to depend on his employer to keep him healthy and, to some degree, sane. On days when he doesn't bicycle to work, the father of two jogs on a treadmill in the HP fitness center. He studies meditation and stress reduction, gets flu shots, has his blood and body fat checked, and gets advice from company crisis counselors--all at work and for little or no cost...
...What's it like for you and the crews to go every year to such a big event? HP: Well, it's just a lot of fun. A three-mile race is a hard row. It's a pretty challenging row. If it's windy, it's even more challenging, but it's just...
...About the race--they started the race back in 1965. HP: Yeah, actually it was a pretty unpretentious beginning. When they did it, I think those people were a little skeptical about the event, because there had never been such an event here in this country. I thing the idea came from a coach who had coached in England where Head races were pretty well established. And people who came to the boat club decided that it would be a fun thing to have a fall race, and took the trouble to organize it. And it happened, and turns...
...organization has increased, the event has become more commercial over the years. Is that something you think affects the racing? HP: In recent years, for several years now, they've relied on corporate sponsorship of various kinds, but the regatta itself, I don't think I would use the term that it's commercialized at all. The sponsorship part of it is not very intrusive. It's still very much the Head of the Charles, a very amateur event, if you will. But they clearly are much better organized, and they tap into a lot of resources...
...promote women executives--only 7% of top officers at FORTUNE 500 tech firms are female. But in this business where brand and the CEO become interchangeable--think of Microsoft's Bill Gates and Dell's Michael Dell--Fiorina's gender may actually become an advantage. In PCs, where HP faces increasing competition, products are becoming more commodity-like and prices are falling. Now, HP's gray boxes, in part because of Fiorina's gender, will have just a little bit more cachet than the other guys' gray boxes. That in turn could, in the hypercompetitive world of technology, prompt more...