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Hewlett Packard Hewlett Packard is now run by a woman CEO, Carleton S. “Carly” Fiorina, who since she started 18 months ago, has “pushed the company to the limit to recapture the form that made it a management icon for six decades,” says the article “The Radical: Carly Fiorina’s Bold Management Experiment at HP.” Before Fiorina came along, HP has a decentralized approach honed throughout HP’s 64 year history. It was “a collection of 83 independently run units, each focused on a product such as scanners or security software.” Also, before Fiorina arrived, “each product division has it’s own financial reporting system.” There were some problems caused by this old structure. In recent years under this old structure, HP has been said to be in a “slow-growth funk.” By not changing much about the company in so long, growth has not changed much either. Another problem with HP is that is has