Will Mark Hurd Go To Dell?

Mark Hurd’s exit from Hewlett-Packard HPQ was based on his bad judgment, bad manners, or bad behavior. None make him any less of a highly skilled technology CEO, perhaps the best since Louis V. Gerstner Jr took over the besieged IBM IBM in 1993. Hurd has been humiliated in public which is all the more reason that he wants to be exonerated by turning around another tech behemoth. As it turns out, the CEO job may be open at Dell DELL. The world’s No.3 PC company has been on a downhill trajectory since founder Michael Dell took back the chief executive’s job in 2007. Dell has been bedeviled by accounting scandals, bribery charges, and accusations that it sold millions of flawed PCs to customers which some of its employees knew about.Michael Dell has been directly involved with many of these matters. The company reported on July 22 that “The SEC’s allegations with respect to Mr. Dell and his settlement are limited to the alleged failure to provide adequate disclosures with respect to the company’s commercial relationship with Intel prior to Fiscal 2008.” Dell was, in other words, was enmeshed in the company’s troubling relationship with Intel. To read the rest, head over to 247WallStreet.com