Seems like she's got a new job with HP too!

Queen Meg attempts to rehabilitate her image.

She's running again.

Great! I'm glad. Thank you Meg Whitman.

Leo has years of very successful leadership as a software and service guy. HP hired him because they wanted to get out of the hardware business and become a software and service company. Leo has been delivering exactly that by canning the Palm and PC product lines. Now HP is going to dump Leo for Meg? What could she possibly do that Leo is not already doing? Turn HP into a web-only company?

Its great to see Whitman invest in the real wealth of Silicon Valley - our kids. Summit and Everest are great schools and the real shame is that these schools are not available to more kids.

Stoopid, HP is not dumping Apotheker for Whitman, she's just on the board of directors.

"...HP is not dumping Apotheker for Whitman, she's just on the board of directors."

At present, the Wall Street Journal is reporting the following:

"The board of Hewlett-Packard Co. is considering ousting Leo Apotheker as chief executive, according to people briefed on the matter.

"The board is planning to meet Wednesday, according to one of those people. No decisions have been made on a successor to Mr. Apotheker, said this person.

"H-P declined to comment."

Maybe she can direct them to buy Skype. She's an expert at that.

"By early 2008, the tumultuous ownership relations between the Founders and eBay had resulted in significant leadership churn, with a succession of Skype presidents including Niklas Zennström, Rajiv Dutta, Alex Kazim, Niklas Zennström (again), and Henry Gomez, all holding that title at various points between 2005 and 2007. The business had failed to meet certain earn-out targets, growth was decelerating, product development had slowed significantly, and in October 2007 eBay took a $1.4 billion 'impairment' on the value of Skype, admitting it had overpaid, and now valuing the company at about $2.7 billion"

"During Whitman's tenure as CEO, eBay completed the purchase of Skype for $4.1B in cash and stock in September 2005. In 2009, Skype was sold by eBay at a valuation of $2.75B."

"Helping to fund" and "funding" are two different things entirely. Who wrote up this article header, and what is your connection to Whitman?
And family foundations are primarily tax avoidance vehicles set up to protect wealth indefinitely, for the family, not the community. Unlike trust funds, which legally have to end after two generations, foundations can continue forever.
Sure, it's great that the foundation is doing good for the community, but that is not why it exists. It also sounds pretty good politically. A nice bit of marketing and political spin, I'd say, that will have a nice ring to it when Meg Whitman runs for office again.

CNN says "HP board may oust Apotheker for Whitman"
Web Link

She is good. I voted for her last year, too bad she did not win.

Poor HP. First they buy Autonomy and now may get Whitman.

Think of all the good jobs she can outsource like she did at Ebay.

Really, one in five Silicon Valley students does not graduate? Can anyone out there verify this? It seems shockingly high for this area.

Also, I do not understand Steve C.'s objection to the family foundation. Gifts to a foundation are irrevocable, so how could someone continue to benefit from those assets as he has implied (aside from the personal gratification of making charitable gifts to improve the world)?

"so how could someone continue to benefit from those assets"

look at the foundation's tax documents and it will tell you if they have benefited

From the Santa Clara County Office of Education:

"Overall, the graduation rate for the county is 78.3 percent. This compares with a statewide figure of 74.4 percent."

For details, see: Web Link

At least she's doing something to help local schools. What are the rest of you doing?

Volunteering. Donating.

And you?

I didn't vote for her, but I thank her heartily for her contribution to education.

As a woman who worked for Paypal after they were bought by eBay, Meg's first appearance at the office that we were all excited about was in fact a scolding about sexual harassment - if there is something that you can't say in front of your mom, don't say it. Needless to say I felt like a schoolchild. I really hope she is supporting her community and not using this to support a new run for public office.

Meg Whitman only gives money if she gets something she wants in return for the donating, NOT because shes a good caring person,
if fact that fact has already been played out, remember the house maid episode?

Everyone at HP should be furiously working on their resumes and networking like crazy. The quickest way for a new Exec to improve the bottom line is to dump workers, especially the people who have been around the longest and by virtue of that alone have higher compensation. If Whitman is appointed, given the condition of HP based upon it's stock price, there will be a bloodbath. And the board members will love it, because it will make them look good to the stockholders, and of course, Whitman will build her bonus compensation around the stock price.
Any bets this doesn't happen?